The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House, paperback edition c2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 414 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780812982220 (acidfree paper); 9780679604839 eBook (acidfree paper)Subject(s): Political geographyDDC classification: 320.1/2 LOC classification: JC319 | .K335 2012| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 320.1 KAPL (Browse shelf) | Available | 37764 |
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| 320 YANC What's so amazing about grace? | 320.01 Lock Second treaties of government | 320.1 ANDR How do you kill 11 million people? : | 320.1 KAPL The revenge of geography : | 320.2 WILL Statecraft as soulcraft : | 320.47 LEVI Tyranny of the minority : why American democracy reached the breaking point / | 320.47 RICH Democracy awakening : notes on the state of America / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-378) and index.
From Bosnia to Baghdad -- The revenge of geography -- Herodotus and his successors -- The Eurasian map -- The Nazi distortion -- The Rimland thesis -- The allure of sea power -- The "crisis of room" -- The geography of European divisions -- Russia and the independent heartland -- The geography of Chinese power -- India's geographical dilemma -- The Iranian pivot -- The former Ottoman Empire -- Braudel, Mexico, and grand strategy.
The insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past look back at critical pivots in history and then look forward at the evolving global scene.
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