The Geopolitics Reader - 9780415341479

Taylor & Francis

The Geopolitics ReaderAuthor(s): Simon Dalby, Paul Routledge, GERARD TOAL\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415341479, 978-0415341479\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nWhilst retaining a coherent five part structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics.