Geopolitics became a 'dirty word' in Western academia after World War II because Nazi ideology selectively misappropriated early geopolitical theories (Mackinder's Heartland theory, Mayer's Rimland theory) to justify Lebensraum expansion into Slavic territories.

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Speaker

Tim Marshall

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when you get to the Nazis though they took some of these theories and out of that partially came lean's real living space the Nazi idea of lean's real and going into the Slavic countries

Source

How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall (Part 1)Intelligence Squared
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:30:50 AM

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