Geopolitical Theories in the World Today: How the Ideas of a Few Changed the World

Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics is a field of study that has been used by political power brokers to ensure their continued dominance on the world stage. In particular, geopolitical theories from Halford Mackinder, Nicholas Spykman, Immanuel Wallerstein, Alfred Mahan, Samuel Huntington, and Friedrich Ratzel have had a profound effect on foreign policy over the past century. Strategies perpetrated by the elite are based on a handful of geopolitical theories by an exclusive group of academics; theories that were integrated into the very fabric of western governments and still impact the world today.

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