Critical Geopolitics

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Introduction: Geo-Power......Page 9
MODERNITY AND THE WRITING OF SPACE: THE GEOGRAPHIC INVENTION OF IRELAND......Page 11
GEOGRAPHY AND GOVERNMENTALITY......Page 13
STUDYING GEO-POWER......Page 16
GEO-POWER AND GEOPOLITICS......Page 20
1  Geopolitics......Page 24
THE GEOPOLITICAL GAZE AND THE THEATER OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS......Page 27
OTHER PRODUCTIONS OF GLOBAL SPACE......Page 35
Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904) and the Biologization of Global Space......Page 36
Alfred Mahan (1840–1914) and the Strategic Gaze......Page 38
Rudolf Kjellen (1864–1922) and the Linnaeanization of Giobal Space......Page 41
Karl Haushofer (1869–1946) and the Spatialization of Imperialist Desire......Page 43
Nicholas J.Spykman (1893–1943) and the (Im)possibility of the Geopolitical Gaze......Page 47
THE IRONY OF THE GEOPOLITICAL GAZE......Page 49
2  Critical Geopolitics......Page 52
THE TEXTUALITY OF GEOPOLITICS......Page 57
PROBLEMATIZING AND DISPLACING GEO-POLITICS......Page 60
THE GEOPOLITICAL GAZE: PROBLEMATIZING CARTESIAN PERSPECTIVALISM......Page 61
3  Imperial Incitement......Page 66
THINKING IMPERIALLY: MACKINDER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GEOGRAPHY IN GREAT BRITAIN......Page 73
WRITING THE GEOGRAPHICAL GAZE......Page 80
THE APPARATUS OF VISIBILITY: THE MIND’S EYE......Page 84
PRIMITIVE VISUALIZATION: THE CHILD AND THE SAVAGE......Page 87
VISUALIZATION AND TECHNIQUE: DRAWING, MAPPING, AND READING NATURE AS A SILENT MUSICAL SCORE......Page 90
IMPERIAL INCITEMENT......Page 92
4  “It’s Smart to Be Geopolitical”......Page 95
The Popular Narrative......Page 98
The Middle-Brow Policy Narrative......Page 103
A Pervasive Experience of Lack......Page 110
The Site of Power......Page 111
The Power of Sight......Page 113
Enlightenment......Page 114
Enlightening Myths......Page 116
Mythical Enlightenment......Page 117
5  Critical Approaches to “Geopolitics”......Page 120
KARL WITTFOGEL: GEOPOLITICS AS BOURGEOIS IDEOLOGY......Page 122
ISAIAH BOWMAN: GEOPOLITICS AS PSEUDO-SCIENCE......Page 127
YVES LACOSTE: GEOPOLITICS AS A FORM OF GEOGRAPHICAL REASONING......Page 135
RICHARD ASHLEY AND DISSIDENT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: GEOPOLITICS AS THE SPATIALIZATION OF GLOBAL POLITICS......Page 141
SIMON DALBY: GEOPOLITICS AS SPATIAL EXCLUSION......Page 149
BEYOND THE PROBLEMATIC MARKED BY “GEOPOLITICS”......Page 154
6  Between a Holocaust and a Quagmire......Page 156
The Revolt against Centralism: 1990 to June 1991......Page 163
The JNA Military Response: June 1991 to December 1991......Page 164
Recognizing Newly Independent States: December 1991 to April 1992......Page 166
Watching “Ethnic Cleansing”: May to December 1992......Page 167
A “New” Policy: January to March 1993......Page 171
Holocaust and Balkan Ghosts: April-June 1993......Page 173
Learning to Say No: June-December, 1993......Page 177
Sarajevo and Gorazde: February to May 1994......Page 178
Failing to Impose a Settlement: May-July 1994......Page 180
GEO-POLITICAL SCRIPTS AND THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF MORAL (IN)VISIBILITY......Page 181
GEOPOLITICAL VERTIGO......Page 185
AMERICAN VERTIGO......Page 189
EDWARD LUTTWAK: THE VERTIGO OF THE THIRD WORLDIZATION OF AMERICA......Page 190
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON’S CIVILIZING OF GLOBAL SPACE......Page 197
EPILOGUE: CONSTELLATIONS OF GEO-POWER AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 204
Notes......Page 210
Index......Page 253