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.






