This book examines the long entanglement between ideas of Geopolitics and the ideology and practices of Empire tracing these matters back to the true founder of Geopolitics, a British geographer of the early-twentieth century, Halford Mackinder.

Gerry Kearns is currently Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, USA. He previously lectured in Geography at the universities of Cambridge, Wisconsin-Madison, and Liverpool. He has published on Irish nationalism, British imperialism, and Medical Geography.

• List of Figures and Tables


• Introduction: A Return to Empire


• 1: Geopolitics and Empire


• 2: An Imperial Subject


• 3: Making Space for Darwin


• 4: Manly Endeavours


• 5: Theorising Imperialism


• 6: Teaching Imperialism


• 7: Practising Imperialism


• 8: Conservative Geopolitics


• 9: Progressive Geopolitics


• Bibliography


• Index