Tuathail G., Toal Gerard. Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space

Routledge, 2003. - 168 p. Despite challenges to its domination, the way modern-world politics is conducted is structured by a set of understandings dating back to the rise of the European powers. Here, John Agnew systematically explores how Europeans in a position of global power imposed their ways and views on others through visualizing the world as a whole, defining world regions as modern or backward, seeing the nation statehood as the highe...

The book is an outgrowth of a class I taught for seven years at Penn State University and have continued to teach at the University of Illinois. The classes and the book aim to help people gain a greater understanding of current events by placing them in a bigger picture. I try to achieve this goal by introducing one overarching framework and a number of different theoretical perspectives. The overarching framework is one of structure and agency,...

Blackwell, 2004. – 392 p. In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. - Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultura...

Routledge, 2004. 202 p. Questions of the interaction between politics and geography permeate much of contemporary life. In this broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography, the authors examine the relationship between politics and geography at a variety of levels and in a number of different contexts. By pushing back the boundaries of what is conventionally understood to constitute political geography, the book emphasises the re...

NY. : NDU Press edition, 1942. - 213 pp. This National Defense University Press "Defense Classic" is a reprint of the Right Honourable Sir Halford J. Mackinder's "Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction". First published in 1919 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. , Mackinder's work went largely unnoticed until World War II revived interest in his theories. Holt re-issued the book in 1942, with an introduction by Edw...

Journal of Politics and Law. Vol. 4, № 1, March 2011. - pp. 231-240. This paper attempts to explain the US-Iran political relations from the geopolitical perspective. It focuses on George W. Bush’s presidency as a remarkable period in two states’ relations. Concentrating on the US geopolitical codes, this work aims to study the political leaders’ beliefs and also the influences of these ideas on the states’ foreign policy. The research also stre...

Significantly increasing access to modern energy services in developing countries requires strong and immediate action. Energy access is crucial to enhance economic and social development, reduce poverty, and contribute to international security. To help provide clarity in this area, support political decision making, and inform the design of financial responses, we consider the overall scale of spending required to meet universal access to moder...

Inspired by postcolonial, feminist and anti?geopolitical interventions, this special issue brings together papers which present subaltern imaginaries that offer creative alternatives to the dominant (critical) geopolitical scripts. The concept of subaltern makes direct reference to postcolonial notions of power relations, suggesting a position that is not completely other, resistant or alternative to dominant geopolitics, but an ambiguous positio...

Amsterdam, June 2010 Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has proactively projected power outside its own territory. As an energy - import dependent state, the U.S. has diversified its energy supply, not only focusing on the Persian Gulf, but also on Central Eurasia (CEA). Unlike other regional countries, Kazakhstan holds its own strategic traits. Consequently, among the Central Eurasian countries, Kazakhstan emerges as a vital...

Blackwell Publishing. Transactions of the institute of British Georgaphers, New Series, vol. 19, №3 (1994). pp. 259-272 'Geopolitics' is a polysemous term that exceeds all attempts to delimit it as a singular presence. It is better approached by critically investigating how the concept is made to carry certain meanings in political discourse. This paper considers three different ways in which geopolitics is used to make meaning in global politic...