Understanding Geography and War: Misperceptions, by Steve Pickering

By Steve Pickering

By delving into the historical past of geopolitics and bringing us modern with state of the art case reports taking a look at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this ebook will dispel simplistic and deceptive notions concerning the nature of the way people have interaction with the surroundings.  Stops at the approach will comprise serious geopolitics, spiritual geopolitics, renowned geopolitics, feminist geopolitics, and, most up-to-date of all, serious quantitative geopolitics.  More importantly, it uncovers new parts of analysis for the subsequent new release of researchers, exhibiting how severe and quantitative equipment may be utilized to examine how geography and struggle relate to different parts reminiscent of disorder, activity, dispossession, and immigration.  

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