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- Geopolitics is the study how geography informs politics ( and thus history). In the aftermath of the First World War, is was particularly associated with a British thinker – Halford Mackinder. He famously argued;
- “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
- who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
- who rules the World-Island commands the world.”
- (Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, p. 150)
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Many think that Mackinder’s ideas influenced Hess, Hitler and the Nazis. This is explained below in part one. Some argue with the decline in the power of the USA, it is again coming to the fore. This is explained below. See what you think.
Mr Kydd.
