Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032094373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Dorothea Wehrmann

Opis

Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions and an inter-American perspective 2 Investigating the politics of the Polar Regions: research gaps and a new perspective 3 Practical geopolitics: representing the changing Polar Regions in regional and domestic politics 4 Popular geopolitics: the changing Polar Regions in newspaper reporting 5 Formal geopolitics: the changing Polar Regions in assessments by non-governmental theorists and strategists 6 Conclusions: entangled/disentangled actors and discourses in the politics of the Polar Regions 7 Annex

O autorze

Dorothea Wehrmann studied Social Sciences with a major in Sociology, InterAmerican Studies and Political Communication at the University of Osnabrück and Bielefeld University (Germany). She holds a PhD in Political Science, is affiliated with the Center for InterAmerican Studies, the Institute for World Society Studies and the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology and works as a researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).