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The doctrine of Geopolitics gained attention largely through the work of Sir Halford Mackinder in England and his formulation of the Heartland Theory in 1904. The doctrine involved concepts diametrically opposed to the notion of Alfred Thayer Mahan about the significance of navies (he coined the term sea power) in world conflict. The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire being brought into existence in the Heartland, which wouldn't need to use coastal or transoceanic transport to supply its military industrial complex but would instead use railways, and that this empire couldn't be defeated by all the rest of the world against it.
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Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Politics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), a Lecturer in Regional Integration at the Catholic University of Brussels & a Lecturer in Geopolitics at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels. He is ... a lecturer and scientific advisor of ICGS. Main specialities: geopolitical schools of thought and geopolitics of energy. Most recent publication: [Transl.] “Geopolitics, ‘Geographic Consciousness’ of Foreign Policy?, Publishing House Garant / Maklu (Antwerp), an in-depth study of the history of geopolitical thought from 1890 till present.
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In the high-stakes arena of energy geopolitics, natural gas is rapidly emerging as the next big prize. What oil was to the twentieth century, natural gas will be to the twenty-first. Consider these recent developments:
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To investigate the implications of this shift, PESD sponsored a joint project with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University on the Geopolitics of Natural Gas. The final results of the study have been published in Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 .
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