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Survey of geopolitics (Isaiah Bowman (He says that the new world order…
Survey of geopolitics
Isaiah Bowman
He says that the new world order became after the WWI
He do not believe that the League of Nation was, that there were an emergence of different leagues, that these would reduced the international problems.
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Bowman’s idea of a new world was essentially a map of the world as it was, with greater attention to the sovereign interests of certain nationalities and to a need for coordinated international action.
Rudolf Kjellén
He coined the name on 1899, “The theory of the state as a geographical organism or phenomenon in space”
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Halford Mackinder
“Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands World- Island: Who rules World-Island commands the world.”
He viewed the rise of Eurasian continental states as the greatest threat to British world hegemony. He viewed for the safeguarding of the British political, commercial and industrial primacy
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That nations would create an unbalanced, because there would be one or two of the great powers of predominance.
Nicholas Spykman
He considered that the Eurasian coastal lands were the keys to world control because of their
populations, their rich resources, and their use of interior sea-lands.
The rimland was the key to the struggle for the world, the fragmentation of the Western European portion of rimland and the power of the UK and the US had made unitary control of the rimland impossible.
Friedrich Ratzel
He based his system upon principles of evolution and science.The state as an organism, the states would generate enough political power through the organization for/by one government.
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This ideas has brought the Giant Stare (Germany as itself), this powerful and andivicios state
Ratzel’s theories of the large state were based on concepts of self-sufficiency, closed space, and totalitarian controls,
Alfred T. Mahan
Eurasian centered was he viewed of the world
He argued that world dominance could be held by an Anglo-American alliance from key bases surrounding Eurasia.
He saw the critical zone of conflict lay between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels in Asia, where Russian land power and British sea power met.
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He also told us that he would accored the entrance of other territory to the US to gain firstly influence in there and secondly to try to control the territory
Karl Haushofer
Geopolitics is the new national science of the state, a doctrine on the spatial determinism of all political processes, based on the broad foundations of political geography.” Father of german geopolitik
Haushofer defended the continental panregionalism based upon complementarity of resources and peoples
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He held the main responsibility for the content and direction taken by German geopolitik. The germans use many of the Haushofer ideas in the application during the Nazism