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| | Sempa Mackinders World (III) |
 | | During the inter-war period, Mackinder was knighted (1920), lost his seat in Parliament (1922), chaired the Imperial Shipping Committee (1920-1939), sat on the Imperial Economic Committee (1925-1931), was made a Privy Councilor (1926), and continued to write and lecture on geography and related topics. |
 | | Henry Kissinger in his book, Diplomacy (1994), concludes with a warning that Russia, regardless of who governs it, sits astride territory Halford Mackinder called the geopolitical heartland
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 | | The Heartland, in essence, wrote Mackinder, was equivalent to the territory of the Soviet Union, minus the land east of the Yenisei River. |
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