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In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

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Introduction - geo-power; geopolitics; critical geopolitics; imperial incitement - Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the writing of geographical sight; "Its smart to be geopolitical" - narrating German politics 9in US political discourse, 1939-1943; critical approaches to "geopolitics"; between an holocaust and a quagmire - "Bosnia" in the US geo-political imagination, 1991-1994; visions and vertigo - postmodernity and the writing of global space.

Critical Geopolitics The Politics of Writing

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/08/1996
      ISBN13: 9780816626038, 978-0816626038
      ISBN10: 0816626030

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - geo-power; geopolitics; critical geopolitics; imperial incitement - Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the writing of geographical sight; "Its smart to be geopolitical" - narrating German politics 9in US political discourse, 1939-1943; critical approaches to "geopolitics"; between an holocaust and a quagmire - "Bosnia" in the US geo-political imagination, 1991-1994; visions and vertigo - postmodernity and the writing of global space.

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