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  2. The Geographical Pivot of History - Wikipedia

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    Map of world with Rimland and Heartland's theories K. S. Gadzhev, in his book Introduction to Geopolitics ( Введение в геополитику , Vvedenie v geopolitiku ), raises a series of objections to Mackinder's Heartland; to start with that the significance physiography is given there for political strategy is a form of ...

  3. Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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    World map with the concepts of Heartland and Rimland applied. Two national security advisors from the Cold War period, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, argued to continue the United States' geopolitical focus on Eurasia and, particularly Russia, despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

  4. Rimland - Wikipedia

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    Map of world with Rimland and Heartland's theories The Rimland is a concept championed in the early 20th century by Nicholas John Spykman , professor of international relations at Yale University. To him, geopolitics is the planning of the security policy of a country in terms of its geographical factors.

  5. The Power of Geography - Wikipedia

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    The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World is a book on geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall. It was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2021 and is the sequel to his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography .

  6. Political geography - Wikipedia

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    With the emergence of a new world order (which as yet, is only poorly defined) and the development of new research agendas, such as the more recent focus on social movements and political struggles, going beyond the study of nationalism with its explicit territorial basis. There has also been increasing interest in the geography of green ...

  7. Timeline of geopolitical changes - Wikipedia

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  8. Timeline of geopolitical changes (2000–present) - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world since 2000. It includes dates of declarations of independence, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation, cession, concession, occupation, or secession of land.

  9. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.