The Geopolitics Reader

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables xi
• Cartoons and Maps xii
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Introduction - Thinking Critically about Geopolitics 1
• Part 1 - Imperialist Geopolitics 13
• Part 1 - Introduction 15
• 1 - The Geographical Pivot of History 27
• 2 - The Roosevelt Corollary 32
• 3 - Why Geopolitik? 33
• 4 - Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy? 36
• 5 - Defense of German Geopolitics 40
• Part 2 - Cold War Geopolitics 45
• Part 2 - Introduction 47
• References and Further Reading 56

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables xi
• Cartoons and Maps xii
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Introduction - Thinking Critically about Geopolitics 1
• Part 1 - Imperialist Geopolitics 13
• Part 1 - Introduction 15
• 1 - The Geographical Pivot of History 27
• 2 - The Roosevelt Corollary 32
• 3 - Why Geopolitik? 33
• 4 - Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy? 36
• 5 - Defense of German Geopolitics 40
• Part 2 - Cold War Geopolitics 45
• Part 2 - Introduction 47
• References and Further Reading 56
• 6 - The Truman Doctrine 58
• 7 - The Sources of Soviet Conduct 61
• 8 - Soviet Policy and World Politics 66
• 9 - Antidomino 69
• 10 - The Brezhnev Doctrine 74
• 11 - Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy 78
• 12 - Common Sense and the Common Danger 92
• 13 - Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament (End) 95
• 14 - New Political Thinking 97
• Part 3 - New World Order Geopolitics 101
• Part 3 - Introduction 103
• 15 - The End of History? 114
• 16 - From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics: Logic of Conflict, Grammar of Commerce 125
• 17 - Toward a New World Order 131
• 18 - The Hard Work of Freedom 136
• 19 - The Discipline of Security Studies and the Codes of Containment: Learning from Kuwait 139
• 20 - The New ‘Rogue-State' Doctrine 155
• 21 - The Clash of Civilizations? 159
• 22 - Samuel Huntington and the ‘Civilizing' of Global Space 170
• Part 4 - Environmental Geopolitics 177
• Part 4 - Introduction 179
• References and Further Readings 185
• 23 - The Coming Anarchy 188
• 24 - Reading Robert Kaplan's ‘Coming Anarchy' 197
• 25 - Environmental Scarcity and Mass Violence 204
• 26 - Some Contrarian Notes on Environmental Threats to National Security 212
• 27 - Environmental Security as a National Security Issue 215
• 28 - The Military, the Nation State and the Environment 223
• 29 - The Greening of Global Reach 231
• 30 - Mrs Brundtland's Disenchanted Cosmos 237
• Part 5 - Anti-Geopolitics 243
• Part 5 - Introduction 245
• References and Further Reading 254
• 31 - Orientalism Reconsidered 256
• 32 - Concerning Violence 262
• 33 - A Time to Break Silence 266
• 34 - The Power of the Powerless 272
• 35 - America and the War Movement 277
• 36 - Antipolitics: a Moral Force 283
• 37 - Did You Measure Up? the Role of Race and Sexuality in the Gulf War 286
• 38 - Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds, a Storm and a Prophecy 294
• 39 - Reversing the Race to the Bottom 299
• Index 316