Cognizant of the imperialist origins of the term geopolitics, Tuathail (government and international affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U., US), Dalby (geography and
environmental studies, Carleton U., Canada), Routledge (human geography, U. of Glasgow, UK) present this reader in an effort to foster critical thinking about the history of geopolitical
discourse and its contemporary manifestation. Thirty-six selections provide examples of geopolitical (and anti- geopolitical) thinking from some of the most exemplary writers in politics and
academia. Among those chosen for inclusion are Karl Houshofer, Adolf Hitler, Harry Truman, George F. Kennan, the members of the Cold War-era Committee on the Present Danger, Samuel Huntington,
the Project for a New American Century, Robert Kaplan, Edward W. Said, Frantz Fanon, Subcommandante Marcos, Osama Bin Laden, and Arundhati Roy. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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