GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Geopolitics
5 Dec 2018
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Sadly, mackinder"s teachings on geopolitics greatly influenced german thinking and through the work of people such as haushofer seem to have reached the ears of the. On the allied side, churchill"s famous speech immediately after ww2"s end speaking of an iron curtain coming down to divide europe is very mackinder-ish. After wwii, western strategic thinking was focused on: keeping germany divided keeping bases in germany surrounding the ussr all designed to prevent a soviet breakout, especially through. One geographer (peter taylor), has even suggested that the development and deployment of nuclear arms by the west was designed to counter the ussr"s perceived strategic advantage as the heartland . Nevertheless, mackinder"s view becomes increasingly outmoded (outdated), because: The development of air-power adds a third leg to his land-based, sea-based dichotomy. The development of long-range missiles (whether air or submarine launched) means no.
