The geography of war and peace : from death camps to diplomats / / edited by Colin Flint
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The geography of war and peace : from death camps to diplomats / / edited by Colin Flint
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (479 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.6/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political geography |
| Military geography | |
| War | |
| Peace | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | FlintColin <1965-> |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The geography of war and peace |
| ISBN: | 0-19-756207-8 |
| 1-280-53281-5 | |
| 0-19-534751-X | |
| 1-4237-2045-8 | |
| 1-4337-0091-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783676503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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