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

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Colin Flint Professor of Geography Pennsylvania State University
Oxford University Press, USA, Sep 24, 2004 - Political Science - 480 pages
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 political processes of war and their spatial expression. Topics include terrorism, nationalism, religion, drug wars, water conflicts, diplomacy, peace movements, and post-war reconstruction.
 

Contents

Introduction Geography of War and Peace
3
FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR AND PEACE
17
Geographies of War The Recent Historical Background
19
Geography and War Geographers and Peace
26
Violence Development and Political Order
61
The Political Geography of Conflict Civil Wars in the Hegemonic Shadow
85
GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR
111
Soldiers and Nationalism The Glory and Transience of a HardWon Territorial Identity
113
Landscapes of Drugs and War Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict
242
Navigating Uncertain Waters Geographies of Water and Conflict Shifting Terms and Debates
259
Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict Comparative Considerations
280
Peace Deception and Justification for Territorial Claims The Case of Israel
297
Conflict at the Interface The Impact of Boundaries and Borders on Contemporary Ethnonational Conflict
321
GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE
345
The Geography of Peace Movements
347
The Geography of Diplomacy
369

Amazonian Landscapes Gender War and Historical Repetition
133
Religion and the Geographies of War
149
Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing The Lessons of BosniaHerzegovina
174
Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the War on Terrorism
198
The Geography of Resource Wars
217
Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace NATO Expansion and the Modem Magyars
395
The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery
415
Index
437
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