1. The Anglo-Saxon Traditions
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 (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