Geopolitical Reader
This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War and contemporary...
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This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War and contemporary geopolitics, as well as new environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics.Whilst retaining a coherent five part structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics and the post 9/11 geopolitical landscape (including issues in technoscience, biowarfare, oil politics, and terrorism), and key questions address issues of the transformed nature of threats in the new millennium, the debate over the hegemonic position of the US, and non-American perspectives on contemporary geopolitics.Skilfully guiding the reader through the divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, the editors, all leading geopolitical authorities, provide comprehensive introductions and critical commentaries at the start of each section. Illustrated with provocative cartoons, this second edition of The Geopolitics Reader is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international relations, world politics, political geography and, of course, geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of geopolitics.
General introduction : thinking critically about geopolitics11The geographical pivot of history342The Roosevelt corollary393Why geopolitik?404Eastern orientation or eastern policy435Geography versus geopolitics476Defense of German geopolitics537The Truman doctrine758The sources of Soviet conduct789Soviet policy and world politics8210A geopolitical discourse with Robert McNamara8511The Brezhnev doctrine9112Geopolitics and discourse : practical geopolitical reasoning in American foreign policy9413Common sense and the common danger10314Appeal for European nuclear disarmament (END)10515The end of history?10716The clash of civilizations?13617Statement of principles14518The clash of ignorance14619The Pentagon's new map15120The American empire : the burden15521America, right or wrong16522The coming anarchy18823Reading Robert Kaplan's "coming anarchy"19724The geopolitical economy of 'resource wars'20325No escape from dependency : looming energy crisis overshadows Bush's second term20926Oil and blood : the way to take over the world21327Biological threat assessment : is the cure worse than the disease?21728AIDS and global security22429Orientalism reconsidered25030Concerning violence25531Antipolitics : a moral force25932Tomorrow begins today : invitation to an insurrection26333Letter to America26534The clash of barbarisms27035Beyond either/or : a feminist analysis of September 11th27636Instant-mix imperial democracy281
