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Critical geopolitics : the politics of writing global space

Gearóid Ó Tuathail
- 01 Jul 1998 - 
- Vol. 88, Iss: 3, pp 446
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Critical Geopolitics as mentioned in this paper presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image, ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland.
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Critical Geopolitics presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the twentieth century.

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