POLS5613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rationality, Group Dynamics, Decision-Making
Document Summary
Geopolitics is about place and location and about the relationships between these places and locations and the communities that occupy these places. It is about borders, resources, flows, territories and identities. Functions of a place, institutions within it and the character stem from what people do: they are dynamic, change over time. Peoples preferences, perspective and aspirations change, translated into projects that make and remake places: places can really only be fully understood through their interaction with other places. The world island" eurasia: anecdotal evidence of germany in wwii and russia cold war prove controlling the area is crucial, the us doctrine of containment attempted to ring in the world island. Haushofer and the germans: association with hitler, lebensraum and geopolitics institute, geo-politicians previously believed that every society needed space and resources, culture was defined by language, social. Ussr (communism) and internally jews and left in. Germany: hitler borrowed from ratzel and haushofer to claim.
