ABSTRACT
The Carpathian basin – the historical Great Hungary that had been part of the Habsburg Empire prior to the Compromise in 1867, thereafter of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – has been considered by the British geopolitical school as part of the World-Island, and most strictly as part of its core, called "Heartland". The initial objective was to create the first and only geopolitical research centre in Hungary that could provide scientific justification for the new geopolitical strategy of the country and that of the entire East-Central European region. For this reason, the founders have been thinking in terms of a large-scale cooperation with national and international institutes as well as with the Hungarian governmental institutions. However, in spite of the geopolitical ignorance and the absence of any real geopolitical strategy, a Hungarian geopolitical vision could still be detected. This is represented by the declared ambitions of Hungarians to be or become the leader of the Carpathian Basin region.
