Halford Mackinder
Heartland
Three Essays on Geopolitics
108 pages, paperback
Dimensions: 10.8 x 17.8 cm
ISBN 9780648531579
Published March 2022
Heartland is a fascinating introduction to a pioneer of geopolitics. Halford Mackinder’s trailblazing ideas have influenced international politics to this day. His concept that world domination depends on the control of the global “pivot area” or “heartland” – the centre of the large land mass of Europe and Asia – has informed the political tactics and wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe through the decades. His theories have influenced politicians and political scientists for generations, most notably Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to a long line of U.S. presidents. In our times, the importance of Mackinder’s heartland theory for the United States’ fight to enforce global hegemony, Russia’s struggle to stay independent and relevant on a world stage, and China’s plans to establish a trade route between East and West, make Heartland essential reading for understanding our world.
Sir Halford J. Mackinder (1861-1947) was a geographer and academic, and an early proponent of the ideas of geostrategy and geopolitics. He was the director of the London School of Economics and a member of the British parliament.