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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195347517
  • 019534751X
  • 1423720458
  • 9781423720454
  • 9786610532810
  • 6610532818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Geography of war and peace.DDC classification:
  • 303.6/6 22
LOC classification:
  • JC319 .G445 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 89.76
  • RB 10817
  • RB 10818
  • 8
Online resources:
Contents:
Geographies of war: the recent historical background / Jeremy Black -- Geography and war, geographers and peace / Virginie Mamadouh -- Violence, development, and political order / Herman van der Wusten -- The political geography of conflict: civil wars in the hegemonic shadow / John O'Loughlin -- Soldiers and nationalism: the glory and transience of a hard-won territorial identity / Gertjan Dijkink -- Amazonian landscapes: gender, war, and historical repetition / Lorraine Dowler -- Religion and the geographies of war / Roger W. Stump -- Geographies of genocide and ethnic cleansing: the lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Carl Dahlman -- Dynamic metageographies of terrorism: the spatial challenges of religious terrorism and the 'war on terrorism' / Colin Flint -- The geography of 'resource wars' / Phillippe Le Billon -- Landscapes of drugs and war: intersections of political ecology and global conflict / Michael K. Steinberg and Kent Mathewson -- Navigating uncertain waters: geographies of water and conflict, shifting terms and debates / Leila M. Harris -- Territorial ideology and interstate conflict: comparative considerations / Alexander B. Murphy -- Peace, deception, and justification for territorial claims: the case of Israel / Ghazi-Walid Falah -- Conflict at the interface: the impact of boundaries and borders on contemporary ethnonational conflict / David Newman -- The geography of peace movements / Guntram H. Herb -- The geography of diplomacy / Alan K. Henrikson -- Shifting the iron curtain of Kantian peace: NATO expansion and the modern Magyars / Ian Oas -- The geopolitics of postwar recovery / Brendan Soennecken.
Summary: How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geographies of war: the recent historical background / Jeremy Black -- Geography and war, geographers and peace / Virginie Mamadouh -- Violence, development, and political order / Herman van der Wusten -- The political geography of conflict: civil wars in the hegemonic shadow / John O'Loughlin -- Soldiers and nationalism: the glory and transience of a hard-won territorial identity / Gertjan Dijkink -- Amazonian landscapes: gender, war, and historical repetition / Lorraine Dowler -- Religion and the geographies of war / Roger W. Stump -- Geographies of genocide and ethnic cleansing: the lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Carl Dahlman -- Dynamic metageographies of terrorism: the spatial challenges of religious terrorism and the 'war on terrorism' / Colin Flint -- The geography of 'resource wars' / Phillippe Le Billon -- Landscapes of drugs and war: intersections of political ecology and global conflict / Michael K. Steinberg and Kent Mathewson -- Navigating uncertain waters: geographies of water and conflict, shifting terms and debates / Leila M. Harris -- Territorial ideology and interstate conflict: comparative considerations / Alexander B. Murphy -- Peace, deception, and justification for territorial claims: the case of Israel / Ghazi-Walid Falah -- Conflict at the interface: the impact of boundaries and borders on contemporary ethnonational conflict / David Newman -- The geography of peace movements / Guntram H. Herb -- The geography of diplomacy / Alan K. Henrikson -- Shifting the iron curtain of Kantian peace: NATO expansion and the modern Magyars / Ian Oas -- The geopolitics of postwar recovery / Brendan Soennecken.

Print version record.

How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression.

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