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Halford Mackinder & World Island

Halford Mackinder & World Island. By Taiyo Wilson. Halford Mackinder. Sir Halford John Mackinder February 15, 1861 Gainsborough, England Oxford N atural science Zoology Economics, Political Theory History G eography. Halford Mackinder. Physical Geography

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Halford Mackinder & World Island

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  1. Halford Mackinder & World Island

    By Taiyo Wilson
  2. HalfordMackinder Sir Halford John Mackinder February 15, 1861 Gainsborough, England Oxford Natural science Zoology Economics, Political Theory History Geography
  3. HalfordMackinder Physical Geography Physical and Human Geography Synthetic Geography Physical Geography Humanities Mt. Kenya “Britain and The British Seas” London School of Economics University of Reading Geographical Association Knighted 1920
  4. The Geographical Pivot of History 1904, Royal Geographical Society “my aim will...be...to exhibit human history as part of the life of the world organism“ End of “Columbian epoch” Land power > Sea power Railroads Heartland Theory
  5. Heartland Theory Inaccessible place in heartland of Euro-Asia to become world power “World Island” = Eurasia and Africa Russia and Germany power struggle Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;Who rules the heartland commands the World Island;Who rules the World Island commands the World (Mackinder, 1919).
  6. Influence Important, founding moment in geopolitics Confined to world of geography Foreign Policy, 1940s School of Geopolitik, branch of German geostrategy Critical of German exploitation of his ideas Buffer states to separate Germany and Russia White Russians against Bolsheviks Split Russia up so they couldn’t control Heartland
  7. Foreward/George Orwell Orwell went to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco and Nazi facists Mackinder went to Russia as British High Commissioner and worked on anti-Bolshevik alliance Big Brother Stalin
  8. 1984 Heartland Theory All fighting for same land World Island, peripheral island groups Eurasia, Eastasia, Oceania Nazis/Communists The Party "The actual balance of political power at any given time is… the product, on the one hand, of geographical conditions, both economic and strategic, and, on the other hand, of the relative number, virility, equipment and organization of the competing peoples." War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength
  9. Works Cited "Halford John Mackinder." Wikipedia. 15 Jan. 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halford_Mackinder>. Kilpinen, Jon T. "Test Area: Halford Mackinder." Valparaiso University. Comp. Jon T. Kilpinen. 25 Mar. 1997. Valparaiso University. 15 Jan. 2008 <http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/histphil/test/mackinde.html>.
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