Strategic and geopolitical issues in the contemporary world / edited by Martin Riegl and Jakub Landovský.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riegl, Martin.

Landovský, Jakub.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

World politics.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The world is experiencing a watershed phase in the second decade of the 21st century, marked by a geopolitical and economic power shift from the West to Euro-Asian powers. The present period exposes various geopolitical and geostrategic challenges, which prove more difficult to tackle than those in the 20th century. These challenges take the form of political confrontation, internal and internationally-political armed conflicts, conflict over raw-material resources in civil war torn countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and also in newly explored strategic region

Contents:

part I. Power shifts in the beginning of the 21st century: competition of cooperation in strategic regions?

part II. The scramble for the Asia-Pacific Rim: new containment or cooperation?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 31, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5267-8

OCLC:

861081502