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Introduction to geopolitics / Colin Flint.

This new updated edition of Introduction to Geopolitics presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs. Using new pertinent case studies and guided exercises the title expla...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Flint, Colin, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2017]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Geopolitics > Textbooks.
Geopolitics.
Textbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1 A framework for understanding geopolitics
  • Geography and politics
  • Places and politics
  • The politics of scale
  • Regions and politics
  • Territory as political space
  • Politics of networks
  • What is geopolitics? Expanding the definition
  • Geopolitical agents: making and doing geopolitics
  • Structure and agency: possibilities, constraints, and geopolitical choices
  • Power, geopolitics, and geography
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Geopolitical agency: the concept of geopolitical codes
  • Geopolitical codes
  • Scales of geopolitical codes
  • The global geopolitical codes of the US
  • The War on Terror as a geopolitical code
  • "At night we hear them screaming:" a feminist geopolitics of the US geopolitical code
  • Geopolitical codes of global significance
  • Relational geopolitical codes
  • Geopolitical codes of non-state agents
  • From al-Qaeda to ISIS: non-state geopolitical codes to challenge the US
  • Other non-state agents and geopolitical codes
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Justifying geopolitical agency: representing geopolitical codes
  • War! What is it good for ...?
  • Cultured war
  • Orientalism: the foundation of the geopolitical mindset
  • Representing geopolitical codes of non-state agents: beheading and misogyny as geopolitical spectacle
  • The dynamism of geopolitical codes
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Embedding geopolitics within national identity
  • The nation: an essential part of geopolitical practice and representation
  • (Misused) terminology
  • The geopolitics of nationalism I: constructing a national identity.
  • The geopolitics of nationalism II: the process of "ethnic cleansing"
  • Case study: Syrian Civil War
  • Gender, nationalism, and geopolitical codes
  • A typology of nationalist myths and geopolitical codes
  • Breaking down the binaries
  • Case study: Myanmar/Burma: a militarized state trying to build a unitary nation
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Territorial geopolitics: shaky foundations of the world political map?
  • Definitions
  • Constructing territory
  • Geopolitical codes and boundary conflicts
  • Case study: Israel-Palestine
  • The geopolitics of making peaceful boundaries
  • Case study: global geopolitical codes and the establishment of the North Korea-South Korea boundary
  • Boundaries, flows, and refugees
  • Territoriality of the ocean and territorial disputes
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Network geopolitics: social movements and terrorists
  • Geopolitical globalization: a new metageography
  • The geopolitics of transnational business
  • Transnational social movements
  • Definitions of terrorism
  • History of modern terrorism: waves of terrorism and their geography
  • Metageographies of terrorism
  • Incongruous geographies?
  • Geopolitics of netwar and cyberwarfare
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Global geopolitical structure: framing agency
  • Defining a global geopolitical structure: using and interrogating Modelski's model of world leadership
  • The geopolitics of the rise and fall of world leaders: the context of contemporary geopolitics?
  • Interpreting agency within Modelski's world leadership structure: contextualizing geopolitical codes
  • Legacy, change, and world leadership: feedback systems in Modelski's model
  • Pros and cons of Modelski's model
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References.
  • Chapter 8 Environmental geopolitics: security and sustainability
  • Securitization and the environment
  • Humans and the environment
  • Geopolitical codes and the environment
  • Climate change and the necessity of interstate geopolitics
  • The geopolitics of the Arctic
  • Water wars? Interstate and everyday geopolitics
  • Territory, conflict and the environment
  • The return of Malthus
  • Summary and segue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Messy geopolitics: agency and multiple structures
  • Multiple geopolitical structures: rape as a weapon of war
  • One conflict, but multiple agents and structures: the example of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Messiness, structure and peace
  • Geopolitics of peace
  • The politics of geopolitics
  • Conclusion and epilogue
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Index.

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