Pre WWI GeopoliticsI

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 1660-1783 (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