| Description |
x, 327 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking critically about geopolitics / Gearóid Ó Tuathail -- I. Imperialist geopolitics: -- 1. The geographical pivot of history / Halford J. MacKinder -- 2. The Roosevelt corollary / Theodore Roosevelt -- 3. Why geopolitik? / Karl Haushofer -- 4. Eastern orientation or eastern policy? / Adolf Hitler -- 5. Defense of German geopolitics / Karl Haushofer -- 2. Cold War geopolitics: -- 6. The Truman Doctrine / President Harry Truman -- 7. The sources of Soviet conduct / George F. Kennan -- 8. Soviet policy and world politics / Andrei Zhdanov -- 9. Antidomino / Patrick O'Sullivan -- 10. The Brezhnev doctrine / Leonid Brezhnev -- 11. Geopolitics and discourse : practical geopolitical reasoning in American foreign policy / Gearóid Ó Tuathail and John Agnew -- 12. Common sense and the common danger : policy statement / The Committee on the Present Danger -- 13. Appeal for European nuclear disarmament (END) / END Committee -- 14. New political thinking / Mikhail Gorbachev -- 3. New world order geopolitics: -- 15. The end of history? / Francis Fukuyama -- 16. From geopolitics to geo-economics : logic of conflict, grammar of commerce / Edward N. Luttwak -- 17. Toward a new world order / President George Bush -- 18. The hard work of freedom / President George Bush -- 19. The discipline of security studies and the codes of containment : learning from Kuwait / Timothy W. Luke -- 20. The new 'rogue-state' doctrine / Michael T. Klare -- 21. The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntingdon -- 22. Samuel Huntingdon and the 'civilizing' of global space / Gearóid Ó Tuathail -- 4. Environmental geopolitics: -- 23. The coming anarchy / Robert D. Kaplan -- 24. Reading Robert Kaplan's 'Coming anarchy' / Simon Dalby -- 25. Environmental scarcity and mass violence / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon -- 26. Some contrarian notes on environmental threats to national security / Vaclav Smil -- 27. Environmental security as a national security issue / Gareth Porter -- 28. The military, the nation state and the environment / Matthias Finger -- 29. The greening of global reach / Vandana Shiva -- 30. Mrs. Brundtland's disenchanted cosmos / Shiv Visvanathan -- 5. Anti-geopolitics: -- 31. Orientalism reconsidered / Edward said -- 32. Concerning violence / Frantz Fanon -- 33. A time to break silence / Martin Luther King -- 34. The power of the powerless / Vàclav Havel -- 35. America and the war movement / E.P. Thompson -- 36. Antipolitics : a moral force / George Konrad -- 37. Did you measure up? : The role of race and sexuality in the Gulf War / Abouali Farmanfarmaian -- 38. Chaipas : the southeast in tow winds, a storm and a prophecy / Subcommandante Marcos -- 39. Reversing the race to the bottom / Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello -- Conclusion : geopolitics, knowledge and power at the end of the century / Simon Dalby. |
| Summary |
The Geopolitics Reader offers an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century. The Reader draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental themes and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. The editors provide comprehensive introductions and critical comment at the beginning of each part and political cartoons are integrated throughout. This compenidum of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change includes readings by Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel, Leonid Brezhnev and George Bush. |
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Geopolitics.
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Geopolitics. (OCoLC)fst00941045
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Geopolitiek.
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Geopolitik.
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| Added Author |
Toal, Gerard.
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Dalby, Simon.
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Routledge, Paul, 1956-
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| ISBN |
041516270X (alk. paper) |
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9780415162708 (alk. paper) |
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0415162718 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415162715 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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