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In this book, O' Tuathail writes about the politics of the geographical struggle, and about the geography of global politics. It is the first geographical study to tackle geopolitical writing from a poststructuralist position.

This volume presents an 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 - aim to unearth a political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the 20th century.

Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.
Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:
* theories of post-modern geopolitics
* historical formulations of states and cold wars
* the geopolitics of the Holocaust
* the gendered dimension of Kurdish insurgency
* the cold war world
* political cartoons concerning Bosnia
* Time magazine representations of the Persian Gulf
* the Zapatistas and the Chiapas revolt
* the new...

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field.

• Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography.
  
• Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline.
  
• Includes work at the cutting edge of the field.
  
• Covers the latest theoretical developments.

This extensively revised second edition of "The Geopolitics Reader "draws together the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the early twenty first century.
"The Reader "draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. The editors provide comprehensive introductions and critical comment at the beginning of each of the five parts and political cartoons are integrated throughout. Whilst this...