Geopolitics - The Geography of International Relations

Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, sociocultural, and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Survey of Geopolitics
Chapter 3: Geopolitical Structure and Theory
Chapter 4: The Cold War and Its Aftermath
Chapter 5: North and Middle America
Chapter 6: South America
Chapter 7: Maritime Europe and the Maghreb
Chapter 8: Russia and the Eurasian Convergence Zone
Chapter 9: The East Asia Geostrategic Realm
Chapter 10: The Asia-Pacific Rim
Chapter 11: South Asia
Chapter 12: The Middle East Shatterbelt
Chapter 13: The Sub-Saharan African Shatterbelt
Chapter 14: Epilogue
Bibliography

About the author

Saul Bernard Cohen is University Professor of Geography emeritus at Hunter College, City University of New York, and past director of the Clark University Graduate School of Geography.

Summary

Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, sociocultural, and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War.

Product details

• Authors: Saul Bernard Cohen, Cohen Saul Bernard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2014
• EAN: 9781442223493
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2349-3
• No. of pages: 504
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Social groups, Human Geography, Social groups, communities and identities, international studies;political geography