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Consider the old and new “Great Game”: The "Old" game shaped Mackinder's geopolitics - it was access to and control over the "pivot" or "heartland" that concerned him. He was especially wary of Russian control of those spaces. Today,
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Eurasia A hundred years ago, Halford Mackinder foretold a significant threat of worldwide domination from the east. He helped shape strategic thinking about significant power conflict. Mackinder designed his first lecture called "the geographical Pivot of history" (Fettweis, 2000). ...
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