Heartland Reunion: Geopolitical Chimera or Historical Chance?

The Eurasian Heartland of the 21 st century is actually what Mackinder saw as the “inner ... ... relations should remember the oft-quoted formula put forward by the father of British geopolitics, Halford Mackinder: “Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;... ... here, when the reconciliation between France and Germany led to the launch of European integration processes. In turn, it was ultimately France and Germany that benefitted...