Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction shows why, for a full understanding of contemporary global politics, it is essential to be geopolitical. Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connection between place and politics. Even far away from these ‘danger zones’ geopolitics remains an important part of everyday life. A country's location and size as well as its sovereignty and resources affect understanding and interaction in that country with the wider world.
Author(s): Klaus Dodds
Series: Very Short Introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008295525
Pages: 182
City: Oxford
Tags: Geopolitics
Cover
Half-title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright ⓒ Page
Dedicatory
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of illustrations
Chapter 1
Towards an understanding of geopolitics
Video games and virtual Afghanistan and Iraq
Linking geopolitics to popular culture
Structure of this book
Introduction
The origins of the ‘science’ of geopolitics
Invasion novels and geopolitical anxieties
Geopolitics and Nazism
Post-war decline in the United States
Geopolitical revival in the United States
Towards a critical geopolitics
Britain’s four geopolitical traditions
Conclusions
Geopolitics of national sovereignty and the
Self-defence? Iran and the acquisition of nuclear
Geopolitical architecture in an age of intense
Bretton Woods: the ending of an international
From Yalta to Berlin: the overturning of European
The United States and a new ‘empire’
Russia and a new era resource geopolitics
Conclusions
Chapter 4
Geopolitics and national identity
Islands and national identity: China and Taiwan
Geopolitics and pan-regional identity
Turkey: bridge between East and West?
Geopolitics and subnational identity
National rivalries: football and Spain
Geopolitics and civilizations
Conclusions
Chapter 5
Introduction
President Roosevelt’s 23 February 1942 radio address
The geographical pivot of history: Halford
Woodrow Wilson’s geographer: Isaiah Bowman
Maps and Nazi Germany
Why We Fight
Why We Fight: Frank Capra and The Nazi Strike
The Nazi Strike (1942)
Cartography, geopolitics, and the cold war
Figure of the earth and the cold war
American mapping of the Soviet threat
The new Pentagon map: Thomas Barnett and
Maps, satellite photography, and intelligence:
Conclusions
Chapter 6
Radio Farda and US–Iranian relations
Popular geopolitics and the media
Hollywood, the United States and national
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and US–European relations
News media and geographical framing: the
The internet and a popular geopolitics of dissent
Conclusions
References
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Further reading
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Index
