Critical Geopolitics

These essays unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the 20th Century.

Zusammenfassung Critical Geopolitics presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the twentieth century.

Autorentext

Gearóid Ó. Tuathail is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech.

Inhalt

Introduction: Geo-Power 1. Geopolitics 2. Critical Geopolitics 3. Imperial Incitement: Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the Writing of Geographical Sight 4. It's Smart to Be Geopolitical: Narrating German Geopolitics in U.S. Political Discourse, 1939-1943 5. Critical Approaches to Geopolitics 6. Between a Holocaust and a Quagmire: Bosnia in the U.S. Geo-Political Imagination, 1991-1994 7. Visions and Vertigo: Postmodernity and the Writing of Global Space.