POLI 304 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Halford Mackinder, Friedrich Ratzel, Strategic Geography
28 Feb 2016
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The formulation of national strategy is influenced by a wide variety of factors: past history of the nation, nature of the regime, ideology, religion, and culture, economic factors, including technology, governmental and military institutions. The stakes for which the players contend. The terms by which they measure their security relative to others: saul cohen provides three definitions of geography: The science of spatial relations and interaction. Subdivision of geography that is of greatest interest to statesman and strategists are variants of human geography: studies the way in which physical factors interact with population, political institutions, culture, communications, industry, and technology. Geographic reasoning that encompasses all these branches is geopolitics: the relation of international political power to the geographic setting, essentially the study of the political and strategic relevance of geography to the pursuit of international power. The post-cold war security environment: contending perspectives (60-62) Optimistic nongeopolitical perspectives: francis fukuyama"s end of history thesis.
