West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... turn into the most powerful State in the world. Building on this theory, H. Mackinder considered the Heartland along with the Lenaland “the geographical pivot of history,” that is an area which enabled a State possessing it to determine international ... ... the pivotal part of the planet had shifted from Central Asia to the Middle East where Europe, Asia, and Africa come together. Orientalism and Occidentalism As can be seen, the re-emerging West/non-West opposition represents nothing more than a revival ...