GG102 Chapter 9: Chapter 9.docx
Document Summary
The general recognition that geography enables and limits the actions of states politics takes place" on the stage provided by geography. They act according to geostrategies: perspectives on how states operate in the world. Heartland, rimland, containment, domino theory, cold war Underlies the strategies of all states (in all systems) that have regional/global interests. As the actions those states take, all state wants to survive, growth. Eurasian landmass: ukraine territory was annexed in 18th century. The world has a heart: it is an organism itself: geopolitik. Based on expansion of ratzel"s ideas by rudolph kjellen and karl haushofer: social. Darwinism (survival of the fittest) growth means displacement of the weak: pan-regions (autarky, the world has three different power: americas, asia, europe/africa. Lebensraum (living space) shift expansion focus to eastern europe is a ruthless nazi variety of geopolitics under laid nazi aggression: the nazi build on it.
