IMPERIALIST GEOPOLITICS

REPORTER: PANGISBAN, JESSA JUNE

 OBJECTIVES:
• To be able to introducethe 4 Intellectuals
who were prominent during the Era of
Imperialism.
• To be able to show how Geographical
knowledge were used by the superpowers
in strategizing in their colonial expansion.
• Tobe able to explain Halford Mackinder’s
idea of Geopolitics.
 HALFORD THEODORE KARL HAUSHOFER ADOLF HITLER
MACKINDER ROOSEVELT

WORKS The Geographical

Pivot of History
The Roosevelt
Corollary
“Why Geopolitik”
and Defense of
Mein Kampf

German Politics

COUNTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN UNITED STATES OF GERMANY GERMANY

ORIGIN AMERICA

IDEAS ABOUT - Geographical - Greatness lay in -He claimed that - Inorder for
naval Germany lost
GEOPOLITICS education was expansionism. World War I
Germany to
an important - The United because they did regain its
weapon in the States had a not study greatness, it
struggle for right to exercise Geopolitics.
needs to
relative international - For him,
police power in Geopolitics is the have a
efficiency
between the
the World to study of earth- control of
keep boundedness of wider
great powers. troublesome political processes
states in line. and institutions. territorial
spaces.
 He imagined Germany as an Idealized community of healthy and racially
pure Aryan peasants rooted in the soil and ruled over by “natural leaders” like
Hitler.
This desire of Hitler to make Germany a purely Aryan-occupied state, led to
genocidal violence against the Jews.
Adolf Hitler
Roosevelt is a white supremacist who believed that there was a
hierarchy of races with white Anglo-Saxon at the top and a whole
series of inferior races.
Theodore
The White, as a masterful race, are responsible in controlling the
Roosevelt uncivilized ones.

Britain must do everything to prevent an alliance between

Halford Germany and the Soviet Union.
Mackinder

He believed that Germany shall create an alliance with Soviet Union

and Japan and create a continental-maritime block stretching from
Germany through Russia to Japan against the global maritime Empires
Karl Haushofer of France and Great Britain
HALFORD
MACKINDER’S
“ THE
GEOGRAPHICAL
PIVOT OF
HISTORY”
 MACKINDER’S THESIS

Who rules East Europe commands the

heartland,
Who rules the heartland commands the world
island,
Who rules the world island, commands the
world.
OUTER ISLAND
 RUSSIA

Eastern heartland
Europe

Who rules East Europe commands the

heartland GERMANY

Who rules the heartland commands the

world island,

Who rules the world island, commands the

world.
EPOCH DOMINANT DRAMA DOMINANT MOBILITY
OF POWER
ASCENDANT REGION
AND POWER TYPE

PRE-
COLUMBIAN
Asiatic Horse and The land power
of the Asian
Invasions of
Europe Camel steppes

COLUMBIAN European Sailing vessels The sea power

overseas and sea of the European
expansionism transportation colonial Empires

POST- Closed space and

the struggle for
Railways The land power
COLUMBIAN of those who
relative efficiency
control the
heartland
3 REASONS WHY MACKINDER’S
ACCOUNTS ARE IMPORTANT IN THE
HISTORY OF GEOPOLITICS
1.
God’s eye Global View

• Geopolitics enabled us to view

International politics in a Worldwide
scene.
• It enables us to perceive the real
proportion of features and events
and seek laws to explain history.
2.
The map of “natural seats of power”
• Through this, Mackinder removes the
tremendous geographical diversity
and particularity of places on the
surface of the earth.
• Geographical heterogeneity
becomes geopolitical homogeneity.
3.
ABOUT the “geographical causation of history”
• Relationship
between the physical geography
and transportation technology.
• Thediscovery of steam engine and Railways is
favorable to the countries with wide land
power.
• If
one with wide land power would join forces
with a country known for sea power, an
Empire of the World might be created.