Still the “pivot”: Russia’s self-conception and view of the euro crisis as perceived in public opinion and the Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 2011-12

• Main Author: Turner, Barnard
• Other Authors: EU Centre in Singapore
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103871; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19401
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In his influential and disputed 1904 lecture, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Halford Mackinder argued that the Russian heartland was the fulcrum of many historical and geostrategic currents across Eurasian space. While the thesis has been thought surpassed by recent technological advances in t...