Introduction to Geopolitics by Flint, Colin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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1 A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOPOLITICS

Geopolitics: a component of human geography Geography and places Geography and spaces Places and politics The politics of scale What is geopolitics? A brief history of geopolitics Geography and geopolitics Geopolitical agents: making and doing geopolitics Structure and agency: possibilities, constraints, and geopolitical choices Geopolitics, power, and geography Organization of the book Further reading

2 SETTING THE GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

3 GEOPOLITICAL CODES: AGENTS DEFINE THEIR GEOPOLITICAL OPTIONS

Geopolitical codes Scales of geopolitical codes A do-it-yourself case study: decoding the geopolitics of Central Asia

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Geopolitical codes and the dynamics of world leadership Geopolitical codes of declining world leadership and challenge Geopolitical codes of the US as world leader A geopolitical code to challenge the world leader The War on Terrorism as a geopolitical code Summary and segue Further reading

4 REPRESENTATIONS OF GEOPOLITICAL CODES

War! What is it good for…? Cultured war Me, a geopolitician? Laughable! “Freedom,” “slavery,” Hollywood, and the Reader’s Digest Orientalism: the foundation of the geopolitical mindset Case study 4.1: Saddam Hussein’s use of Arab nationalism and Islam to justify in the 1991 Gulf War Case study 4.2: United States representations of the 2003 invasion of Iraq Summary and segue Further reading

5 EMBEDDING GEOPOLITICS WITHIN NATIONAL IDENTITY

(Misused) terminology The geopolitics of nationalism 1: constructing a national identity The geopolitics of nationalism 2: the process of “ethnic cleansing” Case study 5.1: Chechnya History of the conflict Experiencing the conflict Gender, nationalism, and geopolitical codes Women and the War on Terrorism Gendered nationalism and the masculinity of geopolitical codes A typology of nationalist myths and geopolitical codes Summary and segue Further reading

6 BOUNDARY GEOPOLITICS: SHAKY FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD POLITICAL MAP?

Definitions Geopolitical codes and boundary conflicts Identity Demarcation Resources Security Case study 6.1: Israel–Palestine The geopolitics of making peaceful boundaries Borderlands Case study 6.2: global geopolitical codes and the establishment of the North Korea–South Korea boundary Boundaries and geopolitical codes Summary and segue Further reading

Geopolitical globalization: a new metageography Definitions of terrorism Undefined terrorism You’re a terrorist … I’m not History of modern terrorism: waves of terrorism and their geography Metageographies of terrorism Case study 7.1: al-Qaeda, its history and metageography Timeline The metageogarphy of al-Qaeda Incongruous geographies? World leadership and the War on Terrorism Rewriting the geographic understanding of global politics? Global visions technologically enhanced Summary and segue Further reading

8 MESSY GEOPOLITICS: AGENCY AND MULTIPLE STRUCTURES

Who am I, who am I fighting, and why? Case study 8.1: persistent conflict in Jammu and Kashmir Timeline Geopolitical agency in Jammu and Kashmir Messiness and structure Conclusion and prologue Further reading

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