Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions - An Inter-American Perspective

List of contents

1 Introduction: Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions and an inter-American perspective 2 Investigating the politics of the Polar Regions: research gaps and a new perspective 3 Practical geopolitics: representing the changing Polar Regions in regional and domestic politics 4 Popular geopolitics: the changing Polar Regions in newspaper reporting 5 Formal geopolitics: the changing Polar Regions in assessments by non-governmental theorists and strategists 6 Conclusions: entangled/disentangled actors and discourses in the politics of the Polar Regions 7 Annex

About the author

Dorothea Wehrmann studied Social Sciences with a major in Sociology, InterAmerican Studies and Political Communication at the University of Osnabrück and Bielefeld University (Germany). She holds a PhD in Political Science, is affiliated with the Center for InterAmerican Studies, the Institute for World Society Studies and the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology and works as a researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Summary

Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothea Wehrmann, Dorothea (Bielefeld University Wehrmann
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138485815
• ISBN: 978-1-138-48581-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict; InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Geopolitics, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Human Geography, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Polar regions