‘Geopolitics or the Dominion of the World’ a talk by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 18th March 2015

Time : 3:00 pm Add to Calendar 18-03-2015 15:00:00 18-03-2015 16:30:00 68 ‘Geopolitics or the Dominion of the World’ a talk by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat Event Page : http://goo.gl/qq5F5w Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘India and the wider World’ series) on ‘Geopolitics or the Dominion of the World’ by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund,
New Delhi.

Abstract:
Geopolitics was the name given to strategy for the dominion of the world from a single centre of power. As such it was elaborated between the 1870s and the 1940s in Germany, Great Britain, and the USA; it has ceased thereafter to be a coherent doctrine of world politics and now denotes little more than the coercive diplomacy and global rivalry. In its doctrinal form it was premised on a number of interrelated concepts: 1) the unity of world politics; 2) the state as a living organism that must grow lest it die; 3) as a corollary, the boundaries of the state as permanently fluid and unstable, a region more than a line, and not amenable to definition; 4) the conditions for growth and survival, also called living space or Lebensraum; 5) the individual sovereign state superseded by a power bloc, also called the greater space or the Grossraum; 6) the obsolescence of multipolarity and the balance of power as several blocs or Grossräume compete for dominion, leading to bipolarity and eventually unipolarity; 7) denoting the bipolarity of the mortal combat in geographical terms as the Heartland versus the Inner and Outer Crescent or Rimland, Eurasia versus the Atlantic, or land power versus sea power.  It witnessed the development of geography as a university discipline from the 1870s, starting from Prussia and the German Empire and going on to France and England. It also registers the absence of the Soviet Union from the contest for world dominion; it confined itself to a strategy that was defensive and civilizational, defined as Marxism-Leninism or as Eurasianism.

Speaker:
Prof. Madhavan K. Palat is at present the Editor of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. He was earlier a National Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago, Professor of Russian and European History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. His research areas are nineteenth and twentieth century Russian and Soviet history.

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