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Geopolitics : the geography of international relations / Saul Bernard Cohen.
LIBRA JC319 .C62 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Saul B. (Saul Bernard), 1925-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geopolitics.
- World politics.
- Ethnic relations.
- Security, International.
- International relations.
- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 457 pages : maps ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2009]
- Summary:
- Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological and economic forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War. Saul Bernard Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Survey of geopolitics
- Geopolitical structure and theory
- The Cold War and its aftermath
- North and Middle America
- South America
- Maritime Europe and the Maghreb
- Russia and the Eurasian convergence zone
- The East Asia geostrategic realm
- The Asia-Pacific rim
- South Asia
- The Middle East shatterbelt
- Sub-Saharan African shatterbelt
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Originally published under the title: Geopolitics of the world system.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-435) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742556751
- 0742556751
- 9780742556768
- 074255676X
- OCLC:
- 216615683
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