Difference between revisions of "Mackinder Centre for Long Wave Events"
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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> http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/mackinderCentre/</ref> | ||
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| + | ==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]] | ||
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| + | ==Mackinder Advisory Board== | ||
| + | [[Philip Allott]] | ||
| + | [[Alan Brinkly]] | ||
| + | [[Edward Mortimer]] | ||
| + | [[General Sir Rupert Smith]] | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 14 February 2008
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
