Mackinder's "Heartland" theory and the Atlantic community
Sharapova Sevara
The term "Atlantic partnership" refers to the strong diplomatic and military links between the U.S. and major Western European countries such as Great Britain, Germany and France.
Mackinder's "Heartland": a help or hindrance in understanding Central Asia's international relations
Megoran Nick , Sharapova Sevara
In 1904 the British geographer Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) delivered a paper to London's Royal Geographical Society entitled The Geographical Pivot of History.
When five independent states emerged in the Central Asian region, in the immediate aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, what also emerged, more or less simultaneously, was a focus on certain geopolitical concepts a
Mackinder's Heartland and the location of the geopolitical tetrahedron
Dhaka Ambrish
Sir Halford Mackinder's paper, The Geographical Pivot of History, has retained a power to engage those concerned with the analysis of epochal events in world geopolitics.
FROM THE HEARTLANDS OF JIHADISM: THE POLITICS OF CHAOS IN AFGHANISTAN
This article examines the phenomenon of jihadist groups operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands and argues that the political chaos that reigns in Kabul is contributing to the growth of jihadism in Afghanistan.