Central Asia in international relations : the legacies of Halford Mackinder
Central Asia in international relations : the legacies of Halford Mackinder
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国际关系中的中亚:哈尔福德·麦金德的遗产
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199327973.001.0001
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2013
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S. Sharapova
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N. Megoran;S. Sharapova
在苏联解体后，中亚各共和国作为独立的行动者重新出现在全球国家间体系中，它们不同的历史和地理位置提供了许多不同的可能机会和行动方针。为了解释他们经常令人困惑和复杂的外交政策结盟，许多分析人士再次求助于被广泛认为是地缘政治之父的英国地理学家哈尔福德·麦金德爵士（Sir Halford Mackinder, 1861-1947）的理论。这本书汇集了历史地理学家和政治学家来探索麦金德思想的复兴。本书描绘了他本人与该地区的接触，包括他的著作和他在第一次世界大战后作为英国特使访问中亚，概述并评估了中亚、俄罗斯和美国学者如何利用他的思想来解释该地区的国际关系，并追溯了他的著作是如何真正到达中亚的，以及这些著作是如何被“过境”的学者动态地修改的。因此，这本书不仅对中亚国际关系的理论化做出了重要贡献，而且对我们理解在这一过程中思想是如何交换和再加工的历史地理学也做出了重要贡献。
The republics of Central Asia re-emerged as independent actors in the global interstate system in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, their varied histories and geographies offering many different possible opportunities and course of action. In order to explain their often confusing and complicated foreign policy alignments, many analysts have turned again to the theories of Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947), the British geographer who is widely regarded as the founding father of geopolitics. This book brings together historical geographers and political scientists to explore this remarkable renaissance of Mackinder's thinking. It charts his own engagement with the region, in both his writings and his visit to Central Asia as a British envoy in the aftermath of World War I. It outlines and evaluates how his ideas have been used by Central Asian, Russian, and American scholars to explain the region's international relations, and it traces how his writings actually reached Central Asia and the manner in which they have been dynamically reworked by scholars 'in transit'. The book is thus an important contribution not only to theorising the international relations of Central Asia, but also to our understanding of the historical geography of how ideas are ex- changed and reworked in the process.