Pre WWI Geopolitics I

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Pre WWI GeopoliticsI

• The Anglo-Saxon Traditions

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Englands Aims in International Relations

• Explain the world the existence of the B. Empire
  and questions of the colonial system
• Naval-land forces competition in global scale
• Mobility
• Advantages and disadvantages of litoral position
  (trade,military)

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US

• Using its own territories and resources
• Attitude towards local tribes
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• Attitude towards Europe and South America
• Monroe Doctrine (1823) the longest living
  American Geopolitical theory

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Admiral Thayer Mahan (US)

• The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783
  (1890)
• The role of sea power
• US as still an isolated land power
• Far from core on the periphery
• First global wiew of the international system
• Realism

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Sir Halford Mackinder

• Scottland, Oxford, London School of Economics and
  Political Sciences and Royal Geographic Society
  1904
• Mobility
• Land and sea power competition
• World as a battlefield between land powers and
  sea powers
• Pre Columbian, Columbian and Post Columbian age
• Realism
• See more in the seminars

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Isaiah Bowman (US)

• Idealism
• Wilson
• World War I and Peace Treaties in Versailles
  Mezes
• US foreign policy of the turn of the 19th-20th
  centuries
• Signs of Idealism and Realism (please feel free
  to make useful notes this time)

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Both US and England

• Question of expansion
• Borders and Frontiers
• Lord Curzon

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Homework

• One-one presentation per seminar
• The territorial expansion of the US in the 19th
  century