Halford mackinder biography of abraham lincoln
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m massiv The Geographical Pivot of History H. J. Mackinder The Geographical Journal Vol. 23, No. 4 (Apr., 1904), 421-437. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?s^ ® The Geographical Journal fryst vatten currently published by The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your anställda, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact upplysning may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/rgs.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission
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Item 1296 - Letter from [S A P], London, to Halford John Mackinder
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Letter from [S A P], London, to Halford John Mackinder
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Inquires if Mackinder will be lecturing in the Summer School and a talk on Hungarian geography that Mackinder gave at the Historical Society. Mention of Dr. Slater.
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The forces of geography, it is now commonly said, have returned to the modern world and, with them, the importance of geopolitics. This is perhaps a surprising turn for a globalising world society, in which the information revolution and advances in transportation seemed to make borders (political or natural) obsolete. But what if geography had never gone away for the United States, the biggest and most powerful state in the international system and the main driver of globalisation? What if geopolitics has always mattered to Americans?
For the United States, geopolitics has not ‘returned’ because it never went away. Throughout American history, from the time before there was even a United States right up until the present, policymakers and foreign policy analysts have consistently identified geography as one of the most important considerations in the practice of statecraft and the pursuit of security. For the United States, geography, and therefore geopolitics, has always been par