Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Changing World Political Map / Edition 1

by Nurit Kliot, David Newman

Overview

An excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order

These essays focus on the key regional and geopolitical characteristics of this global reordering, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and South Asia. They discuss the territorial reordering which is taking place at the level of the state as boundaries are redemarcated in line with ethno-territoral demands; as borders are transversed by the movement of peoples, information and finance; and as the lines of territorial demarcation are perceived not only in terms of their fixed characteristics but as part of a process through which regional and ethnic identities continue to be formed and reformed. Each section ends with articles which focus on literature on geopolitics and boundaries. This is an invaluable addition to our understanding of contemporary world affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714681061
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/29/2000
Series:	Routledge Studies in Geopolitics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kliot, Nurit; Newman, David

Table of Contents

Globalisation and the changing world political map, David Newman, Nurit Kliot. Part 1 Geopolitics and globalisation: the worldviews of small states - a content analysis of 1995 UN speeches, Stanley D. Brunn; ordering the "crush zone", geopolitical games in post-Cold War Eastern Europe, John O'Loughlin; economic globalisation, politics and trade policy in Ghana and Kenya, Richard Grant; geopolitical change and the Asia-Pacific - the future of new regionalism, Dennis Rumley; global stability through inequality versus peace processes through equality, Fabrizio Eva; review essay - reclaiming geopolitics - geographers strike back, Virginie Mamadouh. Part 2 Boundaries and territory -borderless worlds: problematising discourses of deterretorialisation in global finance and digital culture, Geraoid O'Tuathail; metaphors and community on the US-Mexico border - identity, exclusion, inclusion and "Operation hold the line", Jason M. Ackleson; African boundaries and their interpreters, Maano Ramutsindela; common cause for borderland minorities? shared status among Italy's ethnic communities, Julian V. Minghi; bounding whose territory? potential conflict between a state and a province desiring statehood, David B. Knight; seeking the common ground, Frederick W. Boal; review essay - boundaries in borderless world, Victor Prescott.

Editorial Reviews

A selection of 13 papers from a January 1998 conference in Israel look at the regional and geopolitical characteristics of global reordering, emphasizing the eastern European and southern Asian regions, and the territorial reordering at the level of the state. Among the topics are geopolitical games on post-Cold War eastern Europe, the future of new regionalism in the Asia Pacific, African boundaries and their interpreters, and borders in a borderless world. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'A most useful synopsis of the components of globalization.' - The Professional Geographer

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