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Pre WWI Geopolitics I The Anglo-Saxon Traditions.

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1 Pre WWI Geopolitics I The Anglo-Saxon Traditions

2 England’s 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)

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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)

7 Both US and England Question of expansion Borders and Frontiers Lord Curzon

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


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