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The Eurasian continental bloc whose unification Jiang says American doctrine tries to prevent.
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The Eurasian continental bloc whose unification Jiang says American doctrine tries to prevent.
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Glossary
The Eurasian continental core whose unification would threaten British sea power.
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Glossary
Europe-Asia continental core whose unification by Germany or Russia would threaten maritime empires.
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In response to a student’s oil-risk question, Jiang says the simple explanation for U.S. involvement is military doctrine: prevent the heartland from unifying.
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Jiang says American grand strategy is to prevent heartland cohesion by blocking any great power or by creating enough conflict that Eurasian powers fight each other.
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The rise of BRICS cooperation among Russia, Iran, and China threatens U.S. hegemony because Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India could follow the heartland trade system.
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The United States has no choice but to fight the war, in Jiang’s simple explanation, because preventing heartland unification is its strategy for maintaining world hegemony.
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Jiang formulates the hegemonic rule as: whoever controls world trade controls the world, and whoever controls the heartland controls world trade.
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British grand strategy is to prevent any Eurasian heartland power from integrating the continent, because a rail-linked Eurasian bloc would make sea-lane empire bankrupt.
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Jiang rejects the democracy-versus-freedom mythology of Britain versus Germany and instead explains British opposition through Mackinder-style fear of a heartland power uniting Eurasia and bypassing sea control with railways.
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Jiang explains World War I through British and then American resistance to a German European hegemon able to unite the Eurasian heartland.
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"...States military works. Okay? And the military doctrine is prevent the heartland from arising. All right? So United States is here. This is Europe...."
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"Allen? So I in fact have a question about the motivation of U.S. to involve in this war. Like as you said that U.S...."
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"Okay? Why? Because if the heartland unifies, it can trade. It can trade by itself through railways. But America is primarily a naval power,..."
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"...probably follow. Okay? Because it is easier to trade in the heartland than it is to trade with America, especially with the US dollar..."
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"...an empire will emerge within the Eurasian continent. It's called the heartland, okay? And this could be Germany, it could be Russia, it could..."
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"So the greatest threat is a great power emerging from the heartland. And throughout history, that was either the French, the Ottoman Empire. The..."
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"...problem is, let's just say that a power arises within the heartland, okay? And it could be Germany, and it could be Russia, okay?..."
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"...a great power emerging within Europe, Asia, to unite the entire heartland. And the British believe this, but also the Americans believe this as..."
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"...ensure Germany could not expand to the east and create the heartland, okay? So that's what was driving British interest at this time. Does..."
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"Communism was a real threat to America. So communism, anarchism were real threats to the American political system in 1930s, especially the Great Depression...."
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"And one conclusion that they had was because of all these political divisions. There are too many divisions within society. Therefore, we need to..."
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"...do not want a European power to emerge to unite the heartland. To unite Asia and Europe because then it negates naval trade. Does..."
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