John Morrissey, Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland draws comparison between the geographic essentialism of Kaplan and his colleagues in Strategic Studies, and the german geographer of the Third Reich Karl Hushoter. While the comparison to the Reich is clearly rhetorical flourish Morrissey’s criticism is not unfounded. Another academic geographer, Simon Daly, concluded the Kaplan’s brand of geographic determinism (and subsequent advocacy for United States’ control of his so-called shatter points) amounts to little more than a rebranding of Kaplan’s
John Morrissey, Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland draws comparison between the geographic essentialism of Kaplan and his colleagues in Strategic Studies, and the german geographer of the Third Reich Karl Hushoter. While the comparison to the Reich is clearly rhetorical flourish Morrissey’s criticism is not unfounded. Another academic geographer, Simon Daly, concluded the Kaplan’s brand of geographic determinism (and subsequent advocacy for United States’ control of his so-called shatter points) amounts to little more than a rebranding of Kaplan’s