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Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was a British geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of ...
The Rimland, Halford Mackinder's "Inner or Marginal Crescent", was divided into three sections: The European coast land; The Arabian-Middle Eastern desert land; and, The Asiatic monsoon land. Rimland or inner crescent contains most of world's people as well as large share of world's resources.
The Heartland lays at the centre of the World Island, stretching from the Volga to the Yangtze and from the Arctic to the Himalayas.Mackinder's Heartland was the area then ruled by the Russian Empire and after that by the Soviet Union, minus the Kamchatka Peninsula region, which is located in the easternmost part of Russia, near the Aleutian Islands and the Kuril Islands.
Tenants are moving into Mercy Housing’s latest affordable family housing project in Bellingham as the building gets its finishing touches. The Trailview apartments at 2412 Rimland Drive in the ...
Halford J. Mackinder's major work, Democratic ideals and reality: a study in the politics of reconstruction, appeared in 1919.[12] It presented his theory of the Heartland and made a case for fully taking into account geopolitical factors at the Paris Peace conference and contrasted (geographical) reality with Woodrow Wilson's idealism.
The Manning will be built at 2401 Rimland Drive at the former site of the YMCA Early Learning Center and on part of the existing driving range next door.
Mackinder's Pivot Area Sabine Feiner, lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Regensburg , sees in her thesis (2000) Brzeznski's geostrategy in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Halford Mackinder (" Heartland theory ") and Nicholas J. Spykman ("Rimland").
Nicholas J. Spykman was both a follower and critic of geostrategists Alfred Mahan, and Halford Mackinder. His work was based on assumptions similar to Mackinder's, including the unity of world politics and the world sea. He extends this to include the unity of the air. Spykman adopts Mackinder's divisions of the world, renaming some: The Heartland;