Mackinder's “heartland” – legitimation of US foreign policy in World War II and the Cold War of the 1950s

<p>The British geographer Halford J. Mackinder developed two different concepts of a dystopian new global order. The first, developed in 1904 and known as the pivot area concept, was adopted by German geopolitician Karl Haushofer in the 1920s. The second, developed in 1919, was named the heart...

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Main Author: O. Krause
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Copernicus Publications 2023-03-01
Series:Geographica Helvetica
Online Access:https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/78/183/2023/gh-78-183-2023.pdf