The Geopolitics Reader

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures and tables......Page 12
Cartoons and maps......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
INTRODUCTION Thinking Critically About Geopolitics......Page 16
Introduction......Page 30
~The Geographical Pivot of History~ from Geographical Journal 1904......Page 42
~The Roosevelt Corollary~ from A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1905......Page 47
~Why Geopolitik?~ from The World of General Haushofer 1942......Page 48
~Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy?~ from Mein Kampf 1942......Page 51
~Defense of German Geopolitics~ from Total Power: A Footnote to History 1948......Page 55
Introduction......Page 62
~The Truman Doctrine~ from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 1947......Page 73
~The Sources of Soviet Conduct~ from Foreign Affairs 1947......Page 76
~Soviet Policy and World Politics~ from The International Situation 1947......Page 81
~Antidomino~ from Political Geography Quarterly 1982......Page 84
~The Brezhnev Doctrine~ from Pravda 1968......Page 89
~Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy~ from Political Geography Quarterly 1992......Page 93
~Common Sense and the Common Danger~ from Alerting America: The Papers of the Committee on the Present Danger 1984......Page 107
~Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament (END)~ from Protest and Survive 1980......Page 110
~New Political Thinking~ from Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World 1988......Page 112
Introduction......Page 118
~The End of History?~ from The National Interest 1989......Page 129
~From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics: Logic of Conflict, Grammar of Commerce~ from The National Interest 1990......Page 140
~Toward a New World Order~ from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 1991......Page 146
~The Hard Work of Freedom~ from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 1992......Page 151
~The Discipline of Security Studies and the Codes of Containment: Learning from Kuwait~ from Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance 1991......Page 154
~The New \'Rogue-State\' Doctrine~ from The Nation 1995......Page 170
~The Clash of Civilizations?~ from Foreign Affairs 1993......Page 174
~Samuel Huntington and the \'Civilizing\' of Global Space~ from Critical Geopolitics 1996......Page 185
Introduction......Page 194
~The Coming Anarchy~ from The Atlantic Monthly 1994......Page 203
~Reading Robert Kaplan\'s \'Coming Anarchy\'~ from Ecumene 1996......Page 212
~Environmental Scarcity and Mass Violence~ from Current History 1996......Page 219
~Some Contrarian Notes on Environmental Threats to National Security~ from Canadian Foreign Policy 1994......Page 227
~Environmental Security as a National Security Issue~ from Current History 1995......Page 230
~The Military, the Nation State and the Environment~ from The Ecologist 1991......Page 238
~The Greening of Global Reach~ from Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict 1993......Page 246
~Mrs Brundtland\'s Disenchanted Cosmos~ from Alternatives 1991......Page 252
Introduction......Page 260
~Orientalism Reconsidered~ from Europe and Its Others, Volume 1 1984......Page 271
~Concerning Violence~ from The Wretched of the Earth 1963......Page 277
~A Time to Break Silence~ from A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1986......Page 281
~The Power of the Powerless~ from The Power of the Powerless 1985......Page 287
~America and the War Movement~ from The Heavy Dancers 1985......Page 292
~Antipolitics: A Moral Force~ from Antipolitics 1984......Page 298
~Did You Measure Up? The Role of Race and Sexuality in the Gulf War~ from Genders 1992......Page 301
~Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds, a Storm and a Prophecy~ from Anderson Valley Advertizer 1994......Page 309
~Reversing the Race to the Bottom~ from Global Village or Global Pillage 1994......Page 314
Conclusion: Geopolitics, Knowledge and Power at the End of the Century......Page 320
Copyright information......Page 328
Index......Page 331