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Stages of modern geopolitics

  • The race for imperial hegemony
  • German Geopolitik
  • American Geopolitics
  • Cold war-state centered versus universalistic geographical
  • The post -cold war period

Founders of modern geopolitics

Friedrich Ratzel, Halford Mackinder, Rudolf Kjellen, Isaiah Bowman, and Alfred T. Mahan

Characteristics of their writings

intense nationalism, state expansionism, and overseas empire building

The (two) greatest quality of the mind

<p>Courage and Honor</p> Signup and view all the answers

The motto of Aristotle

<p>You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor</p> Signup and view all the answers

Author of the 17 book geography

<p>Strabo</p> Signup and view all the answers

known for his theory of sovereignty

<p>Jean Bodin</p> Signup and view all the answers

He advocated for the separation of powers

<p>Baron de Montesquieu</p> Signup and view all the answers

He advocated social darwinism

<p>Herbert Spencer</p> Signup and view all the answers

The beliefs justified by social darwinism

<p>Political Conservatism, Imperialism, Racism, Discourage intervention and reform</p> Signup and view all the answers

He is the father of german geopolitics

<p>Karl Haushofer</p> Signup and view all the answers

He epitomize german idealist philosophy

<p>Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</p> Signup and view all the answers

He advocated scientific racism

<p>Arnold Kenny Guyot</p> Signup and view all the answers

Determines the superiority or inferiority of races

<p>Geography</p> Signup and view all the answers

His latin journey from 1799-1804 is celebrated as the second scientific discovery of america

<p>Alexander Von Humboldt</p> Signup and view all the answers

Chief economic and military power in the european continent during the last half of 19th century (country)

<p>Germany</p> Signup and view all the answers

The great unifier of germany

<p>Otto Von Bismarck</p> Signup and view all the answers

He viewed the state as an organism

<p>Friedrich Ratzel</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of raum

<p>Space</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of lage

<p>Location</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of frontiers

<p>Skins or peripheral organs of states</p> Signup and view all the answers

He establish geography as a university discipline

<p>Halford Mackinder</p> Signup and view all the answers

He foresaw the ending of the victorian era

<p>Halford Mackinder</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the concern of MacKinder

<p>His concern was safeguarding the British Empire’s political, commercial, and industrial primacy at a time when command of the seas no longer appeared to guarantee world supremacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the greatest threat to british world hegemony

<p>The rise of Eurasian Continental States</p> Signup and view all the answers

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