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Model of Empire
Mask of Rightness
Heart of Darkness
Empires
Geopolitics
The Mask
Conrad’s “Idea”
The Heart
Wealth and Power
Face of Empire
Reality of Empire
Physical Geography
Geology
Climate
Resources
Transportation
Periphery / Buffer
Military
Economics
Geography
Human Geography
Culture
Development
Economic
Health
Historical
Political
Population
Settlement
Geopolitics – an analysis of international relations
that includes the effects of:
Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Physical Geography
Geology
Climate
Resources
Transportation
Periphery / Buffer
Military
Economics
Geography
Human Geography
Culture
Development
Economic
Health
Historical
Political
Population
Settlement
STUDENT ASSISGNMENT:
Describe the Geopolitics of
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Location(s)
Physical Geography
Geology
Climate
Resources
Transportation
Periphery / Buffer
Military
Economics
Geography
Human Geography
Culture
Development
Economic
Health
Historical
Political
Population
Settlement
Example STUDENT ASSISGNMENT:
Describe the Geopolitics of
Occupied Territories
Golan Heights Kashmir Tibet
Physical Geography
Human Geography
Golan Heights Kashmir Tibet
several occupied territories.
Culture / Population:
Occupied population differs
ethnically/religiously/culturally
from occupier.
Historical / Political: Legal,
historical, security claims made
by each side.
Resources / Economic: Source
of very important WATER
supplies and rivers.
Periphery / Buffer: territories lie
between regional competitors.
Military: Important high ground.
Fighting is between regular army
vs irregulars and citizen protesters
Example STUDENT ASSISGNMENT:
Compare the Geopolitics of
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Example STUDENT ASSISGNMENT:
Describe the Geopolitics of
Occupied Territories
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
We have no eternal allies, and we have no
perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and
perpetual. -Lord Palmerston, British PM
Wealth - Resources - Labour- Commerce - Geopolitical Power
The Myth of Allies and Enemies
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Post WW 1
Allies attack
former “friends”.
Geopolitics – Allies and Enemies
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Post WW 2
“Friends” become “Enemies.
Geopolitics – Allies and Enemies
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Post WW 2
“Enemies” become “Friends”.
Geopolitics – Allies and Enemies
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
The Scramble
for Wealth
Resources
Labour
Commerce
Africom
Geopolitics - Interests
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Geopolitics - Economics
Currency
Leopold’s Cylinders
Central African Franc
Petrodollars
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Illegal Drugs
Pre WW 1
Geopolitics – Drug Trade
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Geopolitics – Drug Trade
Illegal Drugs
Post WW 2
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Empires want Dependent Vassals
NOT
Democracies or Independent Dictators
Geopolitics – Democracy
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Proxy Fighters
NATO - Saudi
Geopolitics – Proxy Fighters
Proxy Fighters
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
U.S. – Saudi
Salafi / Wahhabi
Proxy Fighters
The United States is cooperating with moderate
Salafist-jihadists to prevent Iran from taking a
preponderant role in the region.
Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis. Everyone knows where al-Qa'ida gets its money, but the West does nothing…
Geopolitics – Proxy Fighters
Foiled Train Derailers
Iranian Al-Qaida
Boston Bombers
Chechnyan Al-Qaida
“War on Terror”
Bosnia
Kosovo
Macedonia Afghanistan Libya Syria
US / Saudi Covert Action using Al-Qaida
Nicaragua Congo Namibia/SA
US / Saudi Covert Action in general
Croatia
Foiled Train Derailers
Iranian Al-Qaida
Boston Bombers
Chechnyan Al-Qaida
El Salvador
Operation Storm
“Allies”:
NATO
Iran
Saudi
Croatia
Nazis
Bosnia
MPRI
Vs
“Enemies”:
PPCLI
Serbs
Yugoslavia
Russia
China
Iran
Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Wealth - Resources - Labour- Commerce - Geopolitical Power
Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Operation
Gladio
South African
mercenaries
Columbian
Para-
Militaries
The Mafia
Montagnards
Tibetan
Nationalists
Chilean
DINA
French Italian Greek
Resistance
Ho Chi Min
Vietminh
Cuban
Exiles
Pol Pot
Pacific Islander
Coast-watchers
Kurds
Tito-partisans
OAS
Greek Nazi
Paramilitary
Wealth - Resources - Labour- Commerce - Geopolitical Power
Zbigniew Brzezinski on Geopolitics
“The grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are:
to prevent collusion and maintain security
dependence among the vassals,
to keep [them] pliant and protected,
and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
Divide and Conquer
Divide and Rule
Divide and Leave
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Plunder and Geopolitical Power Geopolitics of Geopolitics
Critical Geopolitics
Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Petraeus
Templer
Lansdale
The Myth of
“Winning Hearts and Minds”
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Divide and Conquer
Divide and Rule
Divide and Leave
Geopolitics – “Divide et impera”
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
The “Barbarians”
Periphery and Containment
Geopolitics - Divide et impera
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Sea Lane
Choke Points
Geopolitics
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Contested
Pipeline Routes
Geopolitics
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Plunder and Geopolitical Power Geopolitics of Geopolitics
Critical Geopolitics
Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Petraeus
Templer
Lansdale
The Myth of
“Winning Hearts and Minds”
Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.
Plunder and Geopolitical Power Geopolitics of Plenty
“The comforts of
the rich require a
great many poor.”
- Voltaire
Empires do not have friends they have interests.