<< /Group 154 0 R 0 Reviews. endobj /Type /Catalog 22 0 obj Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History Geoffrey Sloan No preview available - 2018. /Contents 76 0 R /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R The timeliness and deep historical perspective of Sempa's analysis will remind statesmen, strategists, and interested citizens that the current world situation will not last forever. /URI (http://www.reading.ac.uk/centaur) /Tabs /S /Font 242 0 R >> Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History re-connects the actual experiences of the human condition with the principle forces that shape the world in which we live. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text /ImageC /ImageI /ImageB] /Parent 2 0 R /Contents 153 0 R /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] the role of geography therein, so as to show that geographical conditions matter and in what way. endobj /StructParents 8 War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History. >> >> endobj /Type /Page This survey of both past and recent geopolitical thinking is followed by a discussion of the intimate relationship between geographical and geostrategic considerations and realistic foreign policy, and then continues with consideration of basic factors affecting geopolitical decision-making such as the size of a state, its configuration, climate, and often most critically its global and regional location. /Type /Page /Tabs /S /Parent 2 0 R /Contents 205 0 R 33 0 obj /Resources 197 0 R endobj /Im4 243 0 R /Group 133 0 R /Contents 104 0 R /Tabs /S /Group 172 0 R Using the work of Halford Mackinder, James Burnham, Nicholas Spykman, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and others, he shows that, even though the struggle between the Western allies and the Soviet empire was unique in its ideological component and nuclear standoff, the Cold War fits into a recurring geopolitical pattern. >> /StructParents 35 /StructParents 5 /Resources 140 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Resources 223 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] The research is inspired by the numerous contradictory approaches in the secondary literature, presenting Ratzel as both humanist and racist, geo-determinist and multidimensional analyst, organicist and social scientist, precursor of Geopolitics and opponent to the same idea. /Group 108 0 R /Rotate 0 /Group 112 0 R Includes a discussion of the geography of terrorism. /Rotate 0 It stressed history, gymnastics, ethics, and veneration of the elders. /Contents 138 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /StructParents 31 /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> Geopolitics Geography and Strategic History. /Resources 119 0 R The latter helps to explain how geopolitical tension can result in conflict and whether such conflicts can result in just and long-lasting resolutions. /Resources 146 0 R /Type /Page /S /Transparency /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /Contents 107 0 R >> /Tabs /S /Creator /Type /Action /Rotate 0 >> /Type /Page /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Contents 233 0 R >> endobj Dismissing the Myth of the Ratzelian Geodeterminism, How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History. endobj /StructParents 30 /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] Geography in the Space Age - An Astropolitical Analysis 6. Annotation: 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). endobj * Biographies of major current geopolitical scholars and descriptions and listings of their works * Maps of geopolitical crisis areas, such as Afghanistan/Pakistan, the South China Sea, and the Straits of Malacca * Quotations from various government and military primary source documents * A glossary of geopolitical terms * A bibliography of international scholarly resources, including government and military documents. /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] 2 (1992), pp. Understanding Critical Geopolitics - Geopolitics and Risk Security 7. 13 0 obj /Rotate 0 /Type /Page /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Tabs /S To show the interplay between geography, politics and strategy (as geopolitics … /Type /Annot 32 0 obj /Type /Page /Group 225 0 R /Rotate 0 Alfred Thayer Mahan, geopolitician 4. air power, space power, and geography 5. /Type /Action /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> /Contents 202 0 R War, Peace, and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History. 41 0 obj /Group 215 0 R Just how is one thing technology related to another strategy? >> /Parent 2 0 R /Resources 116 0 R Alfred Thayer Mahan, geopolitician 4. air power, space power, and geography 5. >> /Group 127 0 R /Version /1.5 /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] endobj /Group 115 0 R /Contents 174 0 R /StructParents 57 This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? 58 0 obj >> << /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Parent 2 0 R /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] Geopolitical Theory. /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] /StructParents 56 It also looks forward to the consequences of the revival of geopolitics in post-Soviet Russia and the new space-based field of "astropolitics". In order to demonstrate that new insights can be gained from the revitalised version of geopolitics developed in this paper, empirical examples from international relations are given. /Rotate 0 /Tabs /S /Rotate 0 2061 Understanding Classical Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy Bertil Haggman 2017 _____ Professor Geoffrey Sloan of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, UK, is a leading British geopolitical theorist. /Contents 221 0 R 2 0 obj The theories of Sir Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman are examined in order to provide an analytical narrative for five case studies, four historical and one contemporary. /Count 56 /Group 139 0 R 26 0 obj This book breaks new ground in seeking to provide a way to understand why and how the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy both expands and contracts. Geopolitical conditions influence all strategic behaviour - even when cooperation among different kinds of military power is expected as the norm, action has to be planned and executed in specific physical environments. Geoffrey Sloan — 2017-02-17 in History . /Resources 204 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R 47 0 R 48 0 R 49 0 R 50 0 R 51 0 R 52 0 R 53 0 R 54 0 R /Resources 155 0 R /Rotate 0 endobj /Type /Page /Tabs /S /Resources 152 0 R endobj /Group << /Contents 114 0 R /Group 231 0 R 65 0 obj /Contents 199 0 R 20 0 obj << >> /Resources 143 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Group 203 0 R 50 0 obj /StructParents 26 /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Tabs /S /Rotate 0 /StructParents 39 << ‎This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history. >> There is no doubt that technology is important in war. << View 42153317.pdf from GEOG G456 at Muranga University College. geopolitics, geography and strategic history pdf. /StructParents 40 Ecobook: Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History, Sloan, Geoffrey , This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history. Just how is technology--the means--related to strategy the ends? >> /Contents 120 0 R endobj /StructParents 53 15 0 R 16 0 R 17 0 R 18 0 R 19 0 R 20 0 R 21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R 24 0 R /Parent 2 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] 34 0 obj >> %PDF-1.4 The book will be useful for researchers and students in many scientific fields, such as International Relations, Geopolitics, Geography and History of Geography. /Group 145 0 R /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] Geopolitics is about the interaction among states and empires in a particular geographical setting. /Resources 131 0 R Jetzt eBook herunterladen & mit Ihrem Tablet oder eBook Reader lesen. /Type /Page /StructParents 42 << PDF Geopolitics Geography and Strategic History - For the contribution of maps to strategic action and geopolitics see John Hillen “For eign Policy by Map What Geopolitics is and Why We need It ” National Review Feb 23 2015 /Type /Page /StructParents 1 /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history. << /StructParents 22 /StructParents 54 /Type /Page /StructParents 15 Sir Halford Mackinder - the heartland theory then and now 3. /Resources 99 0 R /S /URI /Type /Page Geography, July 2000 "Many geographers might think that there was little new to say, but these essays reveal subtle and dynamic view of the world order from the past. /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] 44 0 obj /Type /Page >> /Type /Page endobj /Type /Page /Type /Page /Annots [103 0 R] /StructParents 21 /Type /Page /Rotate 0 /CreationDate (D:20181219081742Z') << /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] << endobj /Rotate 0 /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Contents 195 0 R /Tabs /S While mindful of the impact of such concepts as "globalization" and the "information revolution" on our understanding of contemporary events, Sempa emphasizes traditional geopolitical theories in explaining the outcome of the Cold War. >> << Grygiel asserts that, though many other aspects of foreign policy have changed throughout history, strategic response to geographical features remains one of the most salient factors in establishing and maintaining power in the international arena. endobj /StructParents 6 /Group 77 0 R /Resources 182 0 R /Contents 85 0 R /Count 2 /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] << /Rotate 0 /Rotate 0 /Resources 194 0 R endobj /Parent 2 0 R >> >> endobj /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Tabs /S 17 0 obj Part 1. He identifies four broad alternatives for U.S. national security policy: passive and active means of containment, disengagement from foreign security commitments, and the "rollback" of the Soviet empire. endobj << /Group 219 0 R Collins, a former Army officer, stresses land geography, but he does not stint oceans, the atmosphere, or interplanetary space. /Contents 79 0 R /Tabs /S << /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] This section provides a list of general introductory texts in the field of geopolitics that explain the relationship between geography and politics. /Parent 2 0 R /Border [0 0 0] Or is it an insecurity condition with which the U.S. must learn to live -- and if so, on what terms? /Type /Page /Tabs /S /Parent 2 0 R endobj /StructParents 51 >> /Tabs /S /Resources 201 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> /ModDate (D:20160809125055+01'00') The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars. /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Contents 91 0 R /Type /Page /CropBox [0.0 0.0 595.0 842.0] All of the examples that Spykman introduced in his 1938 and 1939 articles were taken from history, instead than from mere theories. /Group 121 0 R Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy, a Trinity of Relations. /Contents 82 0 R /Rotate 0 The collapse of the Soviet empire ended the most recent threat to global stability. /Group 73 0 R /Contents 123 0 R /Parent 2 0 R /Rotate 0 /Type /Page >> /Group 234 0 R endobj /XObject << Understanding Critical Geopolitics - Geopolitics and Risk Security 7. /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Resources 216 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R 38 0 R 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R >> /Resources 158 0 R << 49 0 obj /Tabs /S /Parent 2 0 R /Type /Page 5. Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History re-connects the actual experiences of the human condition with the principle forces that shape the world in which we live. endobj /Type /Page /Tabs /S While it is difficult to identify major security issues for which technology is not important, determining just how important is another matter. << Gray, Colin. /Border [0 0 0] /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] Sloan’s shrewdness in using geopolitical approaches to explain the rise of domestic strategic /StructParents 0 /Annots [63 0 R 64 0 R 65 0 R] 31 0 obj 60 0 obj /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] << /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Type /Page /Resources 226 0 R Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History Geopolitical Theory: Amazon.es: Sloan, Geoffrey: Libros en idiomas extranjeros /StructParents 32 We look to maps to tell us about geography; instead, maps tell us more about ourselves than we might have imagined. << /Parent 2 0 R • Establishment of trade and military alliances. geopolitics, geography and strategic history pdf. /Tabs /S Ideas about the implication of geographical, especially spatial, relationships for political power - which is to say 'geopolitics'- flourished early in the twentieth century. >> << Just like Mahan before him, Spykman devoted a considerable part of his theoretical introduction to geopolitics to the effects of size of territory and location upon a state's political and strategic history. /Rotate 0 /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Contents 74 0 R /StructParents 4 /Parent 2 0 R 62 0 obj Although the meaning of geography for strategy is a perpetual historical theme, explicit theory on the subject is only one hundred years old. /Group 166 0 R The defeat of one would-be hegemonic power is likely to be followed by a new challenger or challengers to current stability in the international system. endobj >> /Group 89 0 R /Tabs /S This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and detailed analysis of its literature. /Contents 168 0 R /StructParents 17 /Rotate 0 Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History (Geopolitical Theory) [Sloan, Geoffrey, Gray, Colin S.] on Amazon.com. 46 0 obj 54 0 obj << Throughout history, geography has been the stage on which nations and empires have collided. /Subtype /Link Cold War world, the domain of geopolitics now touches upon some of the most hotly debated issues of our time, including global environmental degradation, ethno-nationalism and post-modernism. 11 0 obj /Contents 147 0 R 57 0 obj /Parent 2 0 R Over what… /Contents 171 0 R /Parent 2 0 R endobj /Resources 188 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Type /Annot /Tabs /S /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /CS /DeviceRGB /Filter /FlateDecode /Rotate 0 /Resources 96 0 R /Group 118 0 R >> This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? What is Soviet-American competition all about? /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> endobj /Resources 87 0 R South America doesn’t escape at this statement, an example is the proliferation of corridors as bridges between the oceans Atlantic and Pacific. /Parent 2 0 R << 3. >> /Group 86 0 R /Parent 2 0 R /Tabs /S /Contents 224 0 R >> /StructParents 38 "For those for whom geopolitics is a closed subject, or are unclear as to what it is all about, this book (or parts of it at least) provides an interesting and painless entry. >> /StructParents 49 /Parent 2 0 R /Group 124 0 R /Contents 227 0 R << Introduction: The Geopolitics of History 5 Knowledge of geography is essential to geopolitical analysis. /Resources 161 0 R << /Tabs /S 30 0 obj Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History re-connects the actual experiences of the human condition with the principle forces that shape the world in which we live. endobj /Group 184 0 R /Rotate 0 /StructParents 48 endobj /Parent 2 0 R Read Online Geopolitics Geography And Strategic History and Download Geopolitics Geography And Strategic History book full in PDF formats. /Resources 210 0 R /Contents 214 0 R /S /URI /Tabs /S /Type /Page >> /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] A.T. 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Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ gê "earth, land" and πολιτική politikḗ "politics") is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. << /Rotate 0 >> /Rotate 0 /S /URI Divided into theory and practice sections, this volume covers the big names such as Mackinder, Mahan and Haushofer, as well as looking back at the vital influence of weather and geography on naval power in the long age of sail (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). << /StructParents 46 /Resources 207 0 R /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Tabs /S British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis. /Subtype /Link /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] As Clausewitz stated: "It is the task of theory, ., to study the nature of ends and means." /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] /Group 98 0 R /Tabs /S /Contents 97 0 R In Geopolitics, Francis P. Sempa presents a history of geopolitical thought and applies its classical analyses to Cold War and post-Cold War international relations. /URI (http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/licence) /Group 209 0 R /Contents 162 0 R /Contents 66 0 R /CropBox [0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0] >> << Gray explores the roots of the American style in foreign policy and strategy, and how that style relates to defense options.