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Title The geography of war and peace : from death camps to diplomats / edited by Colin Flint
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
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.
Military geography.
War.
Peace.
Armed Conflicts
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
Military geography
Peace
Political geography
War
Konfliktforschung
Krieg
Militärgeografie
Politische Geografie
Territorium
Friede
Friedensforschung
Vredesvraagstuk.
Politieke geografie.
Form Electronic book
Author Flint, Colin, 1965- editor.
ISBN 9780195347517
019534751X
1423720458
9781423720454
9786610532810
6610532818