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Articles | Volume 78, issue 1
Articles | Volume 78, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-183-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-183-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 78, issue 1
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28 Mar 2023
Standard article |  | 28 Mar 2023

Mackinder's “heartland” – legitimation of US foreign policy in World War II and the Cold War of the 1950s

Oliver Krause

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Halford J. Mackinder's heartland theory became one of the most popular and cited geopolitical concepts in the 20th century. Through a complex process of trans- and international reception and adaption, the theory lost its attachment to its original geographical and historical parameters. Its translation from text into a simplified representation in maps accompanied the process of popularization and made the theory an instrument of legitimizing political actions in the public sphere.
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