LONDON One of the regrettable consequences of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was the advent of the pseudoscience known as geopolitics. Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s concepts of “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest”, the progenitors of geopolitics argued that all of history was shaped by a competitive “struggle of nations”.
LONDON One of the regrettable consequences of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was the advent of the pseudoscience known as geopolitics. Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s concepts of “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest”, the progenitors of geopolitics argued that all of history was shaped by a competitive “struggle of nations”.
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The headline news story of 1904 was the Battle of Port Arthur, a surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria that started the Russo-Japanese War. Both nations had ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. Russia wanted a warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean both for its…