ABSTRACT
Halford John Mackinder was a geographer noted for a major contribution to founding of the discipline of Geopolitics. As a corollary of that, he essentially launched the study of geopolitics: the analysis of the impact of physical geography on foreign policy. At the present moment, the people are suffering under the effects of an irrational political geography, one, that is, whose main function is not to trace causal relations, and which must therefore remain a body of isolated data to be committed to memory. Topography, which is geography with the “reasons why” eliminated, is almost unanimously rejected both by masters and pupils. It is agreed that the function of political geography is to and demonstrate the relations subsisting between man in society a so much of his environment as varies locally. Physical geography usually been undertaken by those already burdened with geology political geography by those laden with history.
