320 Pages
by
Routledge
Critical Geopolitics presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of... Read more
Introduction: Geo-Power 1. Geopolitics 2. Critical Geopolitics 3. Imperial Incitement: Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the Writing of Geographical Sight 4. It's Smart to Be Geopolitical: Narrating German Geopolitics in U.S. Political Discourse, 1939-1943 5. Critical Approaches to Geopolitics 6. Between a Holocaust and a Quagmire: Bosnia in the U.S. Geo-Political Imagination, 1991-1994 7. Visions and Vertigo: Postmodernity and the Writing of Global Space.
Biography
Gearóid Ó. Tuathail is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech.
