ics is Sir Halford Mackinder, a member of the British Parliament who wrote "The Geographic Pivot of History" in 1904. He addressed the importance in the history of geopolitics for three reasons in his work; for its god's eye global view; for its division of the globe into vast swaths of history, and for its sweeping story of geography's conditioning influence on the course of history and politics.
             First, he argues that "Geopolitics is a new way of seeing international politics as a unified worldwide scene" and adopts a god's eye global view which looks down on what he calls "the stage of the whole world":
             For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in history.
             In this sentence, 'we' implies the geopolitical experts, educated and privileged white men who can perceive the real political features. This sentence shows all the basic elements of imperialist geopolitics, such as the divine eye gaze on the world, only experts can perceive the real and the desire to reveal laws to explain all of history. However, this view has been criticized for the reason that imperialists only see within the structures of meaning provided by their socialization into certain backgrounds, intellectual contexts and political culture and beliefs.
             Second, he suggests the map of "The Natural Seats of Power". To illustrate his thesis geographically, Mackinder labels enormous tracts of territory with simple identities like "pivot area." He eliminates the tremendous geographical diversity and specificity of places on earth. Difference becomes sameness. Geographical heterogeneity becomes geopolitical homogeneity.
             Third, he argues "the geographical causation of history" in the application of the sweeping theory. At the centre of this theory shows the relationship between physic...