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UNINA9910450312203321 |
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The geography of war and peace : from death camps to diplomats / / edited by Colin Flint |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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0-19-756207-8 |
1-280-53281-5 |
0-19-534751-X |
1-4237-2045-8 |
1-4337-0091-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (479 p.) |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Political geography |
Military geography |
War |
Peace |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2005. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910960151803321 |
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Autore |
Burki Shahid Javed. |
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South Asia in the new world order : the role of regional cooperation / / Shahid Javed Burki |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-81970-3 |
1-283-10427-X |
9786613104274 |
1-136-81971-1 |
0-203-83006-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 40 |
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Disciplina |
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Economic development - South Asia |
South Asian cooperation |
South Asia Economic integration |
South Asia Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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