Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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Contents |
Geographies of war: the recent historical background / Jeremy Black -- Geography and war, geographers and peace / Virginie Mamadouh -- Violence, development, and political order / Herman van der Wusten -- The political geography of conflict: civil wars in the hegemonic shadow / John O'Loughlin -- Soldiers and nationalism: the glory and transience of a hard-won territorial identity / Gertjan Dijkink -- Amazonian landscapes: gender, war, and historical repetition / Lorraine Dowler -- Religion and the geographies of war / Roger W. Stump -- Geographies of genocide and ethnic cleansing: the lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Carl Dahlman -- Dynamic metageographies of terrorism: the spatial challenges of religious terrorism and the 'war on terrorism' / Colin Flint -- The geography of 'resource wars' / Phillippe Le Billon -- Landscapes of drugs and war: intersections of political ecology and global conflict / Michael K. Steinberg and Kent Mathewson -- Navigating uncertain waters: geographies of water and conflict, shifting terms and debates / Leila M. Harris -- Territorial ideology and interstate conflict: comparative considerations / Alexander B. Murphy -- Peace, deception, and justification for territorial claims: the case of Israel / Ghazi-Walid Falah -- Conflict at the interface: the impact of boundaries and borders on contemporary ethnonational conflict / David Newman -- The geography of peace movements / Guntram H. Herb -- The geography of diplomacy / Alan K. Henrikson -- Shifting the iron curtain of Kantian peace: NATO expansion and the modern Magyars / Ian Oas -- The geopolitics of postwar recovery / Brendan Soennecken |
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 political processes of war and their spatial expression |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Political geography.
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Military geography.
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War.
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Peace.
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Armed Conflicts
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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Military geography
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Peace
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Political geography
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War
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Konfliktforschung
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Krieg
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Militärgeografie
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Politische Geografie
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Territorium
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Friede
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Friedensforschung
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Vredesvraagstuk.
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Politieke geografie.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Flint, Colin, 1965- editor.
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ISBN |
9780195347517 |
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019534751X |
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1423720458 |
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9781423720454 |
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9786610532810 |
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6610532818 |
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