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The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (479 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195347517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Geography of War and PeaceDDC classification:
  • 303.66
LOC classification:
  • JC319.G445 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Geography of War and Peace -- I. FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR AND PEACE -- 2. Geographies of War: The Recent Historical Background -- 3. Geography and War, Geographers and Peace -- 4. Violence, Development, and Political Order -- 5. The Political Geography of Conflict: Civil Wars in the Hegemonic Shadow -- II. GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR -- 6. Soldiers and Nationalism: The Glory and Transience of a Hard-Won Territorial Identity -- 7. Amazonian Landscapes: Gender, War, and Historical Repetition -- 8. Religion and the Geographies of War -- 9. Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 10. Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the "War on Terrorism" -- 11. The Geography of "Resource Wars" -- 12. Landscapes of Drugs and War: Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict -- 13. Navigating Uncertain Waters: Geographies of Water and Conflict, Shifting Terms and Debates -- 14. Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict: Comparative Considerations -- 15. Peace, Deception, and Justification for Territorial Claims: The Case of Israel -- 16. Conflict at the Interface: The Impact of Boundaries and Borders on Contemporary Ethnonational Conflict -- III. GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE -- 17. The Geography of Peace Movements -- 18. The Geography of Diplomacy -- 19. Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and the Modern Magyars -- 20. The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Summary: How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the politicalprocesses of war and their spatial expression. Topics include terrorism, nationalism, religion, drug wars, water conflicts, diplomacy, peace movements, and post-war reconstruction.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Geography of War and Peace -- I. FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR AND PEACE -- 2. Geographies of War: The Recent Historical Background -- 3. Geography and War, Geographers and Peace -- 4. Violence, Development, and Political Order -- 5. The Political Geography of Conflict: Civil Wars in the Hegemonic Shadow -- II. GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR -- 6. Soldiers and Nationalism: The Glory and Transience of a Hard-Won Territorial Identity -- 7. Amazonian Landscapes: Gender, War, and Historical Repetition -- 8. Religion and the Geographies of War -- 9. Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 10. Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the "War on Terrorism" -- 11. The Geography of "Resource Wars" -- 12. Landscapes of Drugs and War: Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict -- 13. Navigating Uncertain Waters: Geographies of Water and Conflict, Shifting Terms and Debates -- 14. Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict: Comparative Considerations -- 15. Peace, Deception, and Justification for Territorial Claims: The Case of Israel -- 16. Conflict at the Interface: The Impact of Boundaries and Borders on Contemporary Ethnonational Conflict -- III. GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE -- 17. The Geography of Peace Movements -- 18. The Geography of Diplomacy -- 19. Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and the Modern Magyars -- 20. The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the politicalprocesses of war and their spatial expression. Topics include terrorism, nationalism, religion, drug wars, water conflicts, diplomacy, peace movements, and post-war reconstruction.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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