Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century - Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Informationen zum Autor Brian W. Blouet is Huby Professor of Geography and International Education at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the author of Halford MacKinder: A Biography (1987). Klappentext "Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century" looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and the forces of geopolitics over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed conflicts between geopolitical states who wanted to close off and control land! resources! and population--like Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union--and globalizing ones who wished to open up the world to the free flow of ideas! goods and services--like Britain and America. "Geopolitics and Globalization" describes and analyzes the tug-of-war between these two tendencies! the results of which have determined the shape and behavior of the world we live in today. Beginning his survey in the late nineteenth century! Brian W. Blouet! in this revised and expanded second edition! brings his analysis up to the present day! when communication technologies are no longer land- or sea-based! and thus render globalization nearly inevitable. Zusammenfassung Now in a revised and expanded Second Edition! Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and geopolitical forces over the last 150 years.

Product details

• Authors: BLOUET, Brian W Blouet, Brian W. Blouet
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.02.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781861897824
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-782-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Globalities; Globalities (Reaktion Books); Globalities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Globalization, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Geopolitics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999