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Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near waters¿those parts of the oceans close to a country's shoreline¿and far waters¿parts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines of other countries. A forceful an...

Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near waters¿those parts of the oceans close to a country's shoreline¿and far waters¿parts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines of other countries. A forceful an...

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings.

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings.

The new edition presents the themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, with no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs required. It includes the geopolitical implications of COVID-19, China's pronounced role in the world, the relative decline of the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The updated edition explores the corporatization of politics, challenges to globalization, and the increasingly influential role of China. New material includes sections on art and war, intimate geopolitics, geopolitical constructs and the role of the so-called Islamic State in global geopolitics.

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While much has been written about hate groups and extreme right political movements, this book will be the first that addresses the crucial role that place and context play in generating and shaping them. Ranging across geographical scales the essays start with the home, and then move from the local to the regional, to the national to-finally-the global. In this collection, much of the focus is on the U.S., as the contributors consider a varie...

This volume reports the main lectures and seminars given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Vibronic Processes in Inorganic Chemistry held at Riva del Sole, Tuscany, Italy between 7th and 18th September 1988. In addition to the about 40 hours of lectures repres­ ented by this volume, a further fifteen lectures on current research topics were given by the other participants. Many factors contributed to the decision to hold this ASI but the...

This volume brings together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine the relationship between conflict and reconstruction. They look at how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new and socially progressive institutions and destroying old regimes.

This innovative book tells a unique story about D-Day, one that does not concentrate on the soldiers who hit the beaches or the admirals and generals who commanded them. Instead, Colin Flint brings engineers, businessmen, and bureaucrats to center stage. Through them, he offers a different way of thinking about war, one that sees war as an ongoing set of processes in which seemingly isolated acts are part of broader historical developments. De...

This volume reports the main lectures and seminars given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Vibronic Processes in Inorganic Chemistry held at Riva del Sole, Tuscany, Italy between 7th and 18th September 1988. In addition to the about 40 hours of lectures repres­ ented by this volume, a further fifteen lectures on current research topics were given by the other participants. Many factors contributed to the decision to hold this ASI but the...

This volume brings together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine the relationship between conflict and reconstruction. They look at how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new and socially progressive institutions and destroying old regimes.

The new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs. It features expanded sections on network geopolitics and non-state actors, a new section on geopolitics of transnational business, cyberwar, an interpretation of ISIS within historical geopolitical trends, as well as expanded discussion ofthe relev...