Rimland

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The Rimland is a concept championed in the early 20th century by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale University. To him, geopolitics is the planning of the security policy of a country in terms of its geographical factors. He described the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent. He criticized Mackinder for overrating the Heartland as being of immense strategic importance due to its vast size, central geographical location, and supremacy of land power rather than sea power. He assumed that the Heartland will not be a potential hub of Europe, because: Western Russia was then an agrarian society Bases of industrialization were found to the west of the Ural mountains. This area is ringed to the north, east, south, and south-west by some of the greater obstacles to transportation (ice and freezing temperature, towering mountains etc.). There has never really...

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