The Geopolitics Reader - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0415162718 ISBN 13: 9780415162715

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

The Geopolitics Reader offers an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century. The Reader is divided into five parts which draw on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental themes and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. The editors provide comprehensive introductions and critical comment at the beginning of each part and visual 'geopolitical texts' in the form of political cartoons are integrated throughout. Encouraging exploration of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change this invaluable compendium includes readings by Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel and George Bush.

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About the Author:

Gearoid O Tuathail is Associate Professor of Geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (1996) and an editor of An Unruly World? (Routledge, 1998). Simon Dalby teaches political geography at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is author of Creating the Second Cold War (1990). Paul Routledge is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Terrains of Resistance (1993).

Review:

This is the first and only available book of readings in geopolitics well suited to an upper-division undergraduate or graduate student audience.
–CHOICE, Feb. 99

This unique sourcebook gives an insight into the hardy perennials of spatial geopolitics while also identifying emerging varieties associated with environmentalism found this riveting reading: the A to Z of geopolitics, from classic accounts to emerging trends.
–John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles

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