{"product_id":"geopolitics-and-the-postcolonial-9780631214533","title":"Geopolitics and the PostColonial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eA novel approach to understanding US-Third World relations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritically considers the genesis of US power.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterweaves ideas and events, interventions and representations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...stimulating, and replete with insights....no serious scholar of international relations can afford to miss it.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePolitical Science Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book’s innovations include its systematic engagement with the works of Third World intellectuals, its rigorous conceptualization of Euro-Americanism, and a creative recovery of Gramscian Marxism; these features help to ground a very powerful framework for the post-colonial. This book is the product of a tremendous intellectual maturity and sophistication … the author engages and reworks, with great mastery and success, the best theories of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArturo Escobar,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This singular text challenges the “common sense” view of contemporary world power in an eminently sensible and sensitive manner. Written with admirable and unfashionable clarity … it provides a constantly suggestive \u003ci\u003etour d'horizon\u003c\/i\u003e of the state of global geopolitics at the start of the millennium.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Dunkerley,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitute\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLatin American\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStudies,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is part of the best tradition of research which, particularly since the 1990s, has been showing that a proper understanding of the world is necessarily much larger than a Western understanding of the world … Slater formulates a new critical theory that is adequate to the realities and possibilities created by the global times in which we live, and fully capable of accounting for the metamorphoses of the growing inequalities between North and South.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBoaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra and University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003e the book has many positive aspects to be stressed. It is especially strong on the history and present condition of American imperial hegemony and clearly draws on a wide and detailed knowledge of the Latin American scene.\" \u003ci\u003eProgress in Deveopment Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGeopolitics and the Post-Colonial\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich contribution to the analysis of the imperialist geopolitics of North-South relations inherent in contemporary processes of political and economic globalization.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the Association of American Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is specifically the reflexive and open-minded way in which Slater analyses post-colonial thinking in relation to geopolitics that makes this a very inspiring work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDevelopment and Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Provoking, timely and delivered with panache.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGareth A. Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A valuable addition to the study of Chilean politics after authoritarian rule, analyzing some of the most important factors explaining the trajectory from a brutal military dictatorship to a stable and rather prosperous democratic regime.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJavier A. Couso, Universidad Diego Portales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Conceptual and Historical Issues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 For a Post-Colonial Geopolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Emerging Empire and the Civilizing Powers of Intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Waves of Western Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and the Expansion of Western Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Archipelagos of Critical Thinking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Societies of Insurgent Theory: the Dependentistas Write Back.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Exploring Other Zones of Difference: from the post-modern to the post-colonial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Geopolitics in a Globalizing World.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Post-Colonial Questions for Global Times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 'Another World is Possible' - on social movements, the Zapatistas and the dynamics of 'globalization from below'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Conclusions: Beyond the Imperiality of Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037251764567,"sku":"9780631214533","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631214533.jpg?v=1750934993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/geopolitics-and-the-postcolonial-9780631214533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}