First Published in 1992. This volume focuses upon the synergy between geography and international politics. A new geopolitics is developed bringing together the insights of political geography and international relations. In each chapter, leading scholars focus on the spatial context through which contemporary world politics are conducted. War, conflict, cooperation, state building and power are examined in a geopolitical context.
Chapter One Joining Political and Geographic Perspectives: Geopolitics and International Relation; Chapter Two Geography of International Conflict and Cooperation: Theory and Methods; Chapter Three Geography of International Conflict and Cooperation: Spatial Dependence and Regional Context in Africa; Chapter Four Modernity and Process of State Formation; Chapter Five The Dynamics of Superpower Spheres of Influence: US and Soviet Military Activities, 1948-1978; Chapter Six Geography and War: A Review and Assessment of the Empirical Literature; Chapter Seven Interstate Metrics: Conceptualizing, Operationalizing and Measuring the Geographic Proximity of States since the Conference of Vienna; Chapter Eight Opportunity, Willingness and the Diffusion of War
Biography
Michael Don Ward is a professor of politcial science and a research associate in the Program on Political and Economic Chnage in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
