Global GeostrategyMackinder and the Defence of the West - new book
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This is a new examination of Halford Mackinders seminal global geostrategic work from the perspective of geography diplomatic history political science international relations imperi… More...
This is a new examination of Halford Mackinders seminal global geostrategic work from the perspective of geography diplomatic history political science international relations imperial history and the space age. Mackinder was a man ahead of his time. He foresaw many of the key strategic issues that came to dominate the twentieth century. Until the disintegration of the Soviet Union western defence strategists feared that one power or alliance might come to dominate Eurasia. Admiral Mahan discussed this issue in The Problem of Asia (1900) but Mackinder made the most authoritative statement in "The Geographical Pivot of History" (1904). He argued that in the "closed Heart-Land of Euroasia" was a strategically placed region with great resources that if controlled by one force could be the basis of a World Empire. James Kurth in Foreign Affairs has commented that it has taken two World Wars and the Cold War to prevent Mackinders prophecy becoming reality. In World War I and World War II Germany achieved huge territorial gains at the expense of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union. In the former conflict the Russian empire was defeated by Germany but the western powers insisted that the territorial gains made by Germany at the treaty of Brest-Litovsk be given up. In World War II Britain and the US gave material support to Stalins totalitarian regime to prevent Nazi Germany gaining control of the territory and resources that might have been a basis for world domination. The west highly conscious of Mackinders dictum (1919) that "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland " quickly adopted policies to contain the Soviet Union. History has therefore proved Mackinders work to be of vital importance to generations of strategic thinking and he remains a key influence in the new millennium. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies and military history and of geopolitics in particular. new, Routledge<
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Global GeostrategyMackinder and the Defence of the West - new book
ISBN: 9780203327821
This is a new examination of Halford Mackinders seminal global geostrategic work from the perspective of geography diplomatic history political science international relations imperi… More...
This is a new examination of Halford Mackinders seminal global geostrategic work from the perspective of geography diplomatic history political science international relations imperial history and the space age. Mackinder was a man ahead of his time. He foresaw many of the key strategic issues that came to dominate the twentieth century. Until the disintegration of the Soviet Union western defence strategists feared that one power or alliance might come to dominate Eurasia. Admiral Mahan discussed this issue in The Problem of Asia (1900) but Mackinder made the most authoritative statement in "The Geographical Pivot of History" (1904). He argued that in the "closed Heart-Land of Euroasia" was a strategically placed region with great resources that if controlled by one force could be the basis of a World Empire. James Kurth in Foreign Affairs has commented that it has taken two World Wars and the Cold War to prevent Mackinders prophecy becoming reality. In World War I and World War II Germany achieved huge territorial gains at the expense of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union. In the former conflict the Russian empire was defeated by Germany but the western powers insisted that the territorial gains made by Germany at the treaty of Brest-Litovsk be given up. In World War II Britain and the US gave material support to Stalins totalitarian regime to prevent Nazi Germany gaining control of the territory and resources that might have been a basis for world domination. The west highly conscious of Mackinders dictum (1919) that "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland " quickly adopted policies to contain the Soviet Union. History has therefore proved Mackinders work to be of vital importance to generations of strategic thinking and he remains a key influence in the new millennium. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies and military history and of geopolitics in particular. new, Routledge<
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780203327821 Publishing year: 2004 Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
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