GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chinese Century, Omnipotence, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Document Summary
Geopolitics: the international political and strategic signiicance of geography: deined as the location, size, resources, and power of regions and nations. Geography is the most fundamental factor in the foreign policy of states because it is the most permanent . Alliances may come and go but geography deined in the. Halford mackinder and the geographical pivot of history above terms do not change: his article, 1904 (book 1919) view of the geopolitical signiicance of. Eurasian heartland and the variable power of landman and seaman military forces. His thesis was about special relations (heartland thesis) Territory of the seaman: naval power could not reach the sea power of. Eurasia: eastern europe was had to get to. Key geopolitical regions: world island, heartland, outer crescent, inner crescent. Key power relations: who rules eastern europe commands the. Wold island; who rules the world island commands the world (mackinder 1919: 1940s world war consequences of the heartland thesis.
