Geopolitics Volumes 1-4

Description:
This major reference collection highlights the contested and diverse nature of geopolitics and charts the controversial intellectual history of the field. Coined by the Swedish author, Rudolf Kjellen, the term 'geopolitics' highlights the role that territory, resources and boundaries play in shaping global political relations. The collection brings together work from international relations, political science, history, geography and law into a definitive collection that covers three dimensions of the geopolitical: 'Classic geopolitics' - examines the impact of physical geography on political actions; 'Critical geopolitics', a parallel strand to the 'classical' tradition, challenges the notion of geography as a passive backdrop to international affairs and examines the socially constructed nature of geographical claims; and, 'Popular geopolitics' - looks at geopolitics as it has been presented outside of the formal academic arena, for example in popular journals such as 'Life' or 'Reader's Digest'.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE Part 1: Classical Geopolitics The New Geopolitics: A critique - Lewis Alexander The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas Barnett Race Contra Space: The conflict between German geopolitik and national socialism - Mark Bassin Geography Versus Geopolitics - Isaiah Bowman Geopolitical Thinking in Latin America - John Child A New Map of Global Geopolitical Equilibrium: A developmental approach - Saul Cohen Lost Geographers: Power games and the circulation of ideas within Francophone political geographies - Juliet Fall Political Geography in the Modern World - Richard Hartshorne Why Geopolitik? - Karl Haushofer Defence of German Geopolitics - Karl Haushofer Geopolitics, Generals and the State in Brazil - Leslie Hepple Persuasive Cartography in 'Geopolitik' and National Socialism - G. Henrik Herb The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington Global Strategic Views - Stephen Jones Power and Weakness - Robert Kagan Closed Space and Political Practice: Frederick Jackson Turner and Halford Mackinder - G. Kearns The Sources of Soviet Conduct - George Kennan The Origins and Evolution of Geopolitics - Ladis Kristof The Geographical Pivot of History - Halford Mackinder VOLUME TWO Part 1: Classical Geopolitics (Continued) The Territorial Growth of States - Friedrich Ratzel Geopolitics and Geography in Japan Re-Examined - Keiichi Takeuchi Geopolitics and Political Geography - Edvard Thermaenius Geographical Science in Germany During the Period 1933-1945 - Carl Troll and Eric Fischer Political Geography and Geopolitics: A recurrence of American geopolitics - O. Vitkovskiy Part 2: Critical Geopolitics Biometric Borders: Governing mobilities in the War on Terror - Louise Amoore Between Regions: Science, militarism and American geography from World War to Cold War - Tervor Barnes and Matthew Farish The Uncertain State(s) of Europe - Luiza Bialasiewicz Planetary Geopolitics - Neville Brown The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, empire and the sports utility vehicle - David Campbell Whose World, Whose Order? Spatiality, geopolitics and the limits of the world order concept - Sanjay Chaturvedi and Joe Painter US Statecraft and the US-Mexico Border as Security-Economy Nexus - Mathew Coleman Critical Geopolitics: Discourse, difference and dissent - Simon Dalby The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's 'coming anarchy' - Simon Dalby Locating Critical Geopolitics - Klaus Dodds and James Sidaway A Feminist Geopolitics? - Lorraine Dowler and Joanne Sharp Terror and Territory - Stuart Elden Cities and the War on Terror - Stephen Graham The Angel of Iraq: Paradise and progress - Derek Gregory The Black Flag: Guantanamo Bay and the space of exception - Derek Gregory VOLUME THREE Part 2: Critical Geopolitics (Continued) Torture and the Ticking Bomb: The war on terrorism as a geographical imagination of power/knowledge - Matthew Hannah The Revival of Geopolitics - Leslie Hepple Mind the Gap: Bridging feminist and political geography through geopolitics - Jennifer Hyndman Alexander Dugin: Geopolitics and neo-fascism in post-Soviet Russia - Alan Ingram Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on language and space - Amy Kaplan An Illustration of Geographical Warfare: Bombing the dikes on the Red River, North Vietnam - Yves Lacoste For Ethnography in Political Geography: Experiencing and reimagining the Ferghana Valley boundary closures - Nick Megoran Is there a Politics to Geopolitics? - Alexander Murphy, Mark Bassin, David Newman, Paul Reuber and John Agnew Geopolitical Fantasies, National Strategies and Ordinary Russians in the Post-Communist Era - John O'Loughlin The Language and Nature of the 'New' Geopolitics: The case of US-El Salvador relations - Gearoid O'Tuathail Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical geopolitical reasoning in American foreign policy - Gearoid O'Tuathail and John Agnew Generations and the 'Development' of Border Studies - Anssi Paasi The Siren Song of Geopolitics: Towards a Gramscian account of the Iraq War - Darel Paul Neoliberal Geopolitics - Susan Roberts, Anna Secor and Matthew Sparke Scales of Terror and the Resort to Geography: September 11, October 7 - Neil Smith Part 3: Popular Geopolitics Torture and the Ethics of Photography - Judith Butler Cultural Governance and Pictorial Resistances: Reflections on the imaging of war - David Campbell Film, Geopolitics and the Affective Logics of Intervention - Sean Carter and Derek McCormack VOLUME FOUR Part 3: Popular Geopolitics (Continued) The Tyranny of the Serial: Popular geopolitics, the nation and comic book discourse - Jason Dittmer Licensed to Stereotype: Popular geopolitics, James Bond and the spectre of Balkanism - Klaus Dodds Just war and Extraterritoriality: The popular geopolitics of the United States' war on Iraq as reflected in newspapers of the Arab world - Ghazi-Whalid Falah, Colin Flint and Virginie Mamadouh 'We Sing Our Home, We Dance Our Land': Indigenous self-determination and contemporary geopolitics in Australian popular music - Chris Gibson The Abject Artefacts of Memory: Photographs from Cambodia's genocide - Rachel Hughes Geopolitics and the 'Vision Thing': Regarding Britain and America's first nuclear missile - Fraser MacDonald 11 September and Popular Geopolitics: A study of websites run for and by Dutch Moroccans - Virginie Mamadouh Mapping the Mythical: A geopolitics of national sporting stereotypes - Hugh O'Donnell Radio Geopolitics: Broadcasting, listening and the struggle for acoustic apaces - Alasdair Pinkerton A and Klaus Dodds Digitized Virtuosity: Video war games and post 9/11 cyber-deterrence - Marcus Power Towards a Feminist Counter-Geopolitics: Gender, space, and Islamist politics in Istanbul - Anna Secor Hegemony, Popular Culture and Geopolitics: The Reader's Digest and the construction of danger - Joanne Sharp The Tears of Portugal: Empire, identity, race and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives - James Sidaway and Marcus Power Political Geographies of Globalization (3): resistance - Matthew Sparke An Aesthetics of Fear: The 7/7 London bombings, the sublime and werenotafraid.com - Cynthia Weber