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Global Geostrategy : Mackinder and the Defence of the West by Brian W. Blouet is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Global Geostrategy : Mackinder and the Defence of the West about?
This is a new examination of Halford Mackinder’s 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 Mackinder’s 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
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- Author
- Brian W. Blouet
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000107821
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24