In: Oxford geographical and environmental studies
This book examines the long entanglement between ideas of geopolitics and the ideology and practices of empire. It traces these matters back to the true founder of geopolitics, a British geographer of the early 20th century, Halford Mackinder.
In: Oxford geographical and environmental studies
In: Oxford geographical and environmental studies
In: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Ser.
Geopolitics and Empire examines the relations between two phenomena that are central to modern conceptions of international relations. Geopolitics is the understanding of the inter-relations between empires, states, individuals, private companies, NGOs and multilateral agencies as these are expressed and shaped spatially. This view of the world achieved notoriety as the scientific basis claimed by Nazi ideologists of global conquest. However, under this or another name,similar sets of ideas were important on both sides of the Cold War and now have a renewed resonance in debates over the New Wo
In: Oxford geographical and environmental studies series
World Affairs Online
Oxford University Press
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