Global geopolitics : a critical introduction / Klaus Dodds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodds, Klaus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Textbooks.

Geopolitics.

Globalization--Textbooks.

Globalization.

World politics--1989---Textbooks.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Employing thematic investigation and illustrated through case studies, Dodds explores how global politics is imagined and practised by countries such as the US and other organisations including Greenpeace, the IMF and CNN International.In addition, the author discusses how issues such as environmental degradation, terror networks, anti-globalisation protests and North-South relations challenge, consolidate and subvert the existing international political system.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; 1 Representing geopolitics; Traditional geopolitics: the United States and the representation of global political space post-September 11th; Viewpoint 1 - the end of history v. the clash of civilizations; Viewpoint 2 - pax Americana: the United States and empire; Viewpoint 3 - power and persuasion: Europe v. the United States; Viewpoint 4 - globalization and the 'ozone hole': the Core and the Non-Integrating Gap

2 The nature of geopolitics and globalizationTheories and geopolitics; Traditional and critical geopolitics; Critical geopolitics and geopolitical economy; Realism and the 'Westphalian model' of world politics; Liberalism and the 'UN charter model' of world politics; Geopolitics and globalization of world politics?; 3 Global apartheid and North-South relations; The 'Third World' and the Cold War; The end of the Third World?; US-Latin American relations, debt burdens and the ending of the Cold War; Southern views on development, world politics and the debt crisis; 4 Popular geopolitics

Popular geopolitics and the mass mediaFilms and geopolitical visions; News media and the 'CNN factor'; The Reader's Digest and the Cold War; Cartoons and the anti-geopolitical eye; Geopolitics and music; 5 Globalization of danger; Geopolitics and weapons of mass destruction; Global politics, nuclear weapons and the nuclear weapons cycle; Post-1945 nuclear proliferation control; Resisting nuclearization: regional initiatives and nuclear criticism; Nuclear nationalism in the 1990s: India and Pakistan; US, WMD and 'nuclear outlaws' in the post-September 11th era

6 Globalization of environmental issuesFrom Stockholm to Rio: transboundary and global agendas; Rio Summit and global ecology; North-South relations and the protection of the global commons; 7 Globalization of humanitarianism; Geographical selectivity: to intervene or not to intervene?; Conceptualizing human rights: the problem of definition and implementation; Enforcing human rights by states: national and regional variations; Non-state enforcement of human rights; Can human rights ever be universal?; Humanitarian intervention in the post-Cold War era

Humanitarian intervention: for and againstContemporary humanitarian intervention: enduring tensions; Case study: the United Nations and Yugoslavia (1992-5); Geographies of intervention and non-intervention; 8 Anti-geopolitics and globalization of dissent; Colonial anti-geopolitics; Frantz Fanon and anti-colonialism; Edward Said and the imaginative power of Orientalism; Decolonization and the Cold War: the disappointment of independence?; Cold War dissent and anti-geopolitics; Resisting Cold War communism; Globalization of dissent; Resisting globalization; Anti-globalization protest

Sleepless in Seattle: the 1990 WTO meeting

Notes:

First published 2005 by Pearson Education Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-90328-5

1-315-84724-8

1-317-90329-3

1-281-33383-2

9786611333836

1-4058-9850-X

9781315847245

OCLC:

880827183