1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450312203321

Titolo

The geography of war and peace : from death camps to diplomats / / edited by Colin Flint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-19-756207-8

1-280-53281-5

0-19-534751-X

1-4237-2045-8

1-4337-0091-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

303.6/6

Soggetti

Political geography

Military geography

War

Peace

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Geography of War and Peace; I. FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR AND PEACE; 2. Geographies of War: The Recent Historical Background; 3. Geography and War, Geographers and Peace; 4. Violence, Development, and Political Order; 5. The Political Geography of Conflict: Civil Wars in the Hegemonic Shadow; II. GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR; 6. Soldiers and Nationalism: The Glory and Transience of a Hard-Won Territorial Identity; 7. Amazonian Landscapes: Gender, War, and Historical Repetition; 8. Religion and the Geographies of War

9. Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina10. Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the "War on Terrorism"; 11. The Geography of "Resource Wars"; 12. Landscapes of Drugs and



War: Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict; 13. Navigating Uncertain Waters: Geographies of Water and Conflict, Shifting Terms and Debates; 14. Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict: Comparative Considerations; 15. Peace, Deception, and Justification for Territorial Claims: The Case of Israel

16. Conflict at the Interface: The Impact of Boundaries and Borders on Contemporary Ethnonational ConflictIII. GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE; 17. The Geography of Peace Movements; 18. The Geography of Diplomacy; 19. Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and the Modern Magyars; 20. The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Sommario/riassunto

How & why war & peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war & peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, & scales. This text analyses the political processes of war & their spatial expression.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960151803321

Autore

Burki Shahid Javed.

Titolo

South Asia in the new world order : the role of regional cooperation / / Shahid Javed Burki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81970-3

1-283-10427-X

9786613104274

1-136-81971-1

0-203-83006-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 40

Disciplina

337.1/54

Soggetti

Economic development - South Asia

South Asian cooperation

South Asia Economic integration

South Asia Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Challenges and opportunities -- Reshaping the global economy : the dawn of the Asian century? -- History's many burdens -- South Asia may have turned the corner -- The South Asian way : a non-conventional approach to the making of economic policies -- A multilayered world : regional integration as a determinant of sustained national growth -- South Asia : future growth scenarios with or without integration.

Sommario/riassunto

Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, the US and China, at the centre, it will be multipolar with eight centres of economic activity, including India.The book goes on to suggest that in the context of such a model, there should be regional cooperation between India and its immediate neighbouring countries for South Asia to advanc