Rethinking Geopolitics

<p><em>Rethinking Geopolitics</em> argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.<br> Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:<br> * theories of post-modern geopolitics<br> * historical formulations of states and cold wars<br> * the geopolitics of the Holocaust<br> * the gendered dimension of Kurdish insurgency<br> * the cold war world<br> * political cartoons concerning Bosnia<br> * <em>Time</em> magazine representations of the Persian Gulf<br> * the Zapatistas and the Chiapas revolt<br> * the new cyber politics<br> * conflict simulations in the US military<br> * the emergence of a new geopolitics of global security.<br> Exploring how popular cultural assumptions about geography and politics constitute the discourses of contemporary violence and political economy, <em>Rethinking Geopolitics</em> shows that we must rethink the struggle for knowledge, space and power.</p> List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Introduction: Rethinking geopolitics: towards a critical geopolitics, 1 Postmodern geopolitics? The modern geopolitical imagination and beyond, 2 Figuring the Holocaust: singularity and the purification of space, 3 Fourteen notes on the very concept of the Cold War, 4 The occulted geopolitics of nation and culture: situating political culture within the construction of geopolitical ontologies, 5 Stabilizing borders: the geopolitics of national identity construction in Turkey, 6 Manufacturing provinces: theorizing the encounters between governmental and popular ‘geographs’ in Finland, 7 Reel geographies of the new world order: patriotism, masculinity, and geopolitics in post-Cold War American movies, 8 Enframing Bosnia: the geopolitical iconography of Steve Bell, 9 Outsides inside patriotism: the Oklahoma bombing and the displacement of heartland geopolitics, 10 What is in a gulf?: from the ‘arc of crisis’ to the Gulf War, 11 Going globile: spatiality, embodiment, and media-tion in the Zapatista insurgency, 12 ‘All but war is simulation’, 13 Running flat out on the road ahead: nationality, sovereignty, and territoriality in the world of the information superhighway, 14 Geopolitics and global security: culture, identity, and the ‘pogo syndrome’, Index