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According to the London School of Economics website the Mackinder Centre for Long Wave Events is: | According to the London School of Economics website the Mackinder Centre for Long Wave Events is: | ||
| − | :an interdisciplinary research centre. It has been established to promote new approaches to and improved methods for research on that class of geopolitical issues - long wave events - which pose some of the greatest challenges to the 21st century. These include socio-physical phenomena, such as the HIV/AIDS endemic or global climate change, and socio-cultural phenomena such as technological "lock-in" or cultural encapsulation in the face of modernity - of which unconditional terrorism is a product. <ref> http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/mackinderCentre/</ref> | + | :an interdisciplinary research centre. It has been established to promote new approaches to and improved methods for research on that class of geopolitical issues - long wave events - which pose some of the greatest challenges to the 21st century. These include socio-physical phenomena, such as the HIV/AIDS endemic or global climate change, and socio-cultural phenomena such as technological "lock-in" or cultural encapsulation in the face of modernity - of which unconditional terrorism is a product. <ref> LSE [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/mackinderCentre/ Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events], accessed 14 February 2008</ref> |
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| − | [[Tony Barnett]], Associate Director | + | =Mackinder Team= |
| − | [[Nancy Cartwright]] | + | [[Tony Barnett]], Associate Director, |
| − | [[Tim Dyson]] | + | [[Nancy Cartwright]], |
| − | [[Connor Gearty]] | + | [[Tim Dyson]], |
| − | [[John Gray]] | + | [[Connor Gearty]], |
| − | [[Christopher Greenwood]] | + | [[John Gray]], |
| − | [[John Harris]], Associate Director | + | [[Christopher Greenwood]], |
| − | [[Henrietta Moore]] | + | [[John Harris]], Associate Director, |
| − | [[Gwyn Prins]], Director | + | [[Henrietta Moore]], |
| − | [[James Putzel]] | + | [[Gwyn Prins]], Director, |
| + | [[James Putzel]], | ||
[[Leonard Smith]] | [[Leonard Smith]] | ||
==Mackinder Advisory Board== | ==Mackinder Advisory Board== | ||
| − | [[Philip Allott]] | + | [[Philip Allott]], |
| − | [[Alan Brinkly]] | + | [[Alan Brinkly]], |
| − | [[Edward Mortimer]] | + | [[Edward Mortimer]], |
[[General Sir Rupert Smith]] | [[General Sir Rupert Smith]] | ||
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| + | ==Notes== | ||
| + | <references/> | ||
| + | [[Category:Academics]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:27, 11 March 2014
According to the London School of Economics website the Mackinder Centre for Long Wave Events is:
- an interdisciplinary research centre. It has been established to promote new approaches to and improved methods for research on that class of geopolitical issues - long wave events - which pose some of the greatest challenges to the 21st century. These include socio-physical phenomena, such as the HIV/AIDS endemic or global climate change, and socio-cultural phenomena such as technological "lock-in" or cultural encapsulation in the face of modernity - of which unconditional terrorism is a product. [1]
Mackinder Team
Tony Barnett, Associate Director, Nancy Cartwright, Tim Dyson, Connor Gearty, John Gray, Christopher Greenwood, John Harris, Associate Director, Henrietta Moore, Gwyn Prins, Director, James Putzel, Leonard Smith
Mackinder Advisory Board
Philip Allott, Alan Brinkly, Edward Mortimer, General Sir Rupert Smith
Notes
- ↑ LSE Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events, accessed 14 February 2008
