Introduction to Geopolitics

ISBN-13: 9780367683801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 308 str.

Colin Flint

Opis

The new edition presents the themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, with no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs required. It includes the geopolitical implications of COVID-19, China’s pronounced role in the world, the relative decline of the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to geopolitics  2. A framework for understanding geopolitics  3. Geopolitical agency: the concept of geopolitical codes  4. Justifying geopolitical agency: representing geopolitical codes  5. Embedding geopolitics within national identity  6. Territorial geopolitics: shaky foundations of the world political map?  7. Network geopolitics: flows desired and feared  8. Global geopolitical structure: framing agency  9. Environmental geopolitics: agency in the Anthropocene  10. Messy geopolitics: agency and multiple structures

O autorze

Colin Flint is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science, Utah State University. He is author of Geopolitical Constructs; a co-author, with Peter Taylor, of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State, and Locality; and editor emeritus of the journal Geopolitics. He also runs the Aggies Geopolitical Observatory.