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I understand your point, but Mackinder, Zbig, and others are right to think of certain states as “geopolitical pivots” that are critical because of their geography.
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Sir Halford Mackinder, it appears, was quite right about Kashmir, which lies at the nexus of all these great events.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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Sir Halford Mackinder, it appears, was quite right about Kashmir, which lies at the nexus of all these great events.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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Instead, Mackinder promoted a vertical organization of the world by regions and localities.
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What Mackinder feared, writes one of his biographers, W.H. Parker, was the horizontal organization of the world according to class and cultural and ideological tendencies.
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A century ago, the great British geopolitician, Sir Halford Mackinder, called Kashmir one of the world's primary strategic pivots -- the nexus of continents, empires, and civilizations.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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Instead, Mackinder promoted a vertical organization of the world by regions and localities.
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Halford Mackinder, the turn-of-the-20th-century father of modern geography, stated that provincialism is very useful, since it prevents the tyranny of the wider, geographical majority.
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What Mackinder feared, writes one of his biographers, W.H. Parker, was the horizontal organization of the world according to class and cultural and ideological tendencies.
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Halford Mackinder, the turn-of-the-20th-century father of modern geography, stated that provincialism is very useful, since it prevents the tyranny of the wider, geographical majority.
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