Pre WWI Geopolitics I The Anglo-Saxon Traditions
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)
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
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
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
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)
Both US and England Question of expansion Borders and Frontiers Lord Curzon
Homework One-one presentation per seminar The territorial expansion of the US in the 19th century