An Introduction to Geopolitics highlights in a concise, accessible manner how geographic factors are important in determining whether tensions become conflicts and whether resolutions are just and long lasting or not. The result is an understanding of geopolitics as the way geography and its representation facilitates the exercise of power and resistance towards it. The process and feedback model of geopolitical tension, conflict and resolution structures the book. For each of these three stages four geographic concepts will be discussed: scale of governance; changing places and spaces; networks versus states and resources. Each will be illustrated with a case study. Dialogue boxes will also be used to illuminate the many sides to a conflict.
Author(s): Colin Flint
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 67544
Pages: 257
City: London; New York
Tags: Международные отношения;Геополитика;
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 9
TABLES......Page 11
BOXES......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
PROLOGUE......Page 16
1 A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOPOLITICS......Page 18
2 SETTING THE GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT......Page 50
3 GEOPOLITICAL CODES: AGENTS DEFINE THEIR GEOPOLITICAL OPTIONS......Page 72
4 REPRESENTATIONS OF GEOPOLITICAL CODES......Page 96
5 EMBEDDING GEOPOLITICS WITHIN NATIONAL IDENTITY......Page 122
6 BOUNDARY GEOPOLITICS: SHAKY FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD POLITICAL MAP?......Page 148
7 GEOPOLITICAL METAGEOGRAPHIES: TERRORIST NETWORKS AND THE UNITED STATES' WAR ON TERRORISM......Page 174
8 MESSY GEOPOLITICS: AGENCY AND MULTIPLE STRUCTURES......Page 206
REFERENCES......Page 232
INDEX......Page 240
