The Geopolitical Thought of Sir Halford Mackinder,The Apostle of Amphibious Power[1] Pascal Venier Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) is generally considered as one of the founding fathers of Geopolitics.[2] His famous article ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ (1904) is seen as a decisive epistemological moment for Mackinder was the first, or at least one of the first to... Lire la Suite →
Sir Halford Mackinder and Maritime Strategy
An English translation of the book chapter on The Geopolitical Thought of Sir Halford Mackinder, The Apostle of Amphibious Power, which I previously published in French is now available. The original paper was published as Pascal Venier, "La pensée géopolitique de Sir Halford Mackinder, l’apôtre de la puissance amphibie", in Hervé Coutau-Bégarie and Martin Motte (dir... Lire la Suite →
Mackinder’s map of the natural seats of power (1904)
Version française The map of the natural seats of power, with its very peculiar oval shape, is quite well known and has a strong symbolic value. It comes from an article by British geographer Halford J. Mackinder, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’, which was published in the Geographical Journal in 1904 and has since become one of... Lire la Suite →
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