Introduction The Heartland theory is a geopolitical concept which analyzes the political and economic success of the world’s regions by geography. The theory was hypothesized by 20th-century British geopolitical scholar, Halford Mackinder in his paper to the Royal Geographical Association ...
Much more influential than Samuel Huntington, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (ZKB) has taken up some of his theses, reformulating them from reference bases acceptable to the various trends of the US elites. More than Huntington, brilliant but isolated, ZKB, cynical and ...
In his books, Admiral Mahan tried to explain the origins of the British power. He claimed to find the answer in Britain’s acquisition of maritime supremacy. At the same time, the British had succeeded in : Securing a prosperous foreign ...
Much closer with us than Sun Tzu or Clausewitz, Halford MacKinder is the new thinker that YoungDiplomats focuses on. He is very important to understand how geopolitics was built. Who was he ? Halford Mackinder was a 20th-century geopolitical scholar ...