Introduction to Geopolitics

Reader’s Digest
articles identifying threats to the American way of life
88
7.1
The problem of defining terrorism
164
7.2
Waves of terrorism and Modelski’s model
170
TABLES

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1.1
Place and Palestinian identity
7
1.2
Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
14
1.3
Environmental determinism and geopolitics
22
2.1
Competition between China and the US
34
2.2
Wallerstein’s world-system theory
35
2.3
World Wars I and II in historical context
39
2.4
Abu Ghraib and the consequences for world leadership
45
2.5
Stress on the military power of the world leader—food for thought in 
the US military
48
2.6
Technology and the global reach of the US military
52
3.1
Power and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
57
3.2
“Mapping the Global Future”: the definition of threat
60
3.3
The geopolitics of the “Washington Consensus”
73
4.1
Dulce et Decorum Est
82
4.2
Geopolitical word association
85
4.3
Baghdad blog
94
5.1
Foreign policy as a masculine practice
123
7.1
Geopolitics of resistance: the anti-globalization movement
160
7.2
Special Forces: the network power of the world leader
161
7.3
War crimes: power and 
The Fog of War
162
7.4
The School of the Americas
167
7.5
Sovereignty and counter-terrorism
182
8.1
Rape as a weapon of war
192
8.2
Geopolitics of nature
210
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Figures 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.3, and 7.1 were created by the
talent of Muehlenhaus Studios at www.muehlenhaus.com. I am very grateful for their
skill, innovation, and patience. Figures 1.1, 1.3, 3.3, 4.4, 6.6, and 8.3 were reproduced
with permission from Taylor & Francis. Figures 2.5 (photographer Carla Thomas), 3.4
(photographer R.D. Ward), 7.3 (photographer Andy Dunaway), and 8.2 (photographer
Petty Officer Campbell) were reproduced with permission from the United States
Department of Defense. Figure 5.1 was supplied by the Imperial War Museum in
London, with the assistance of Mr Tony Richards. Permission to publish Figure 7.4 was
provided by 
Monthly Review
. Figure 3.1 was taken and provided by Timothy Blosser.
Figure 3.2 was supplied with permission to reproduce by the Estate of Abram Games.
Figure 4.2 was printed with the assistance of Photofest. Figure 7.2 was reproduced with
permission form the Associated Press. Figure 6.3 was produced from source material
with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Figure 4.5 was supplied with permis-
sion to reproduce by Routledge. Figure 6.1 was taken and supplied by Mladen
Klemencˇicˇ. Figures 6.4 and 6.5 were reproduced with permission from Oxford
University Press. Figure 8.1 and the front cover image were reproduced with permis-
sion from Zuma Press. Figures 1.5 and 2.4 were reproduced with permission from Panos
Pictures. The quotation from the Sinews of Peace speech by Winston S. Churchill was
reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of 
Sir Winston Churchill. Copyright Winston S. Churchill. Table 4.1 was printed with
permission of Routledge, and Table 7.1 was reproduced with permission of Transaction
Publishers. Figures 1.2 and 6.2 are photographs taken by the author.
Thanks to Jessica Schmid, Joel Chorny, Jessica Palmer, and Matt Bestoso for helping
me to find and collect data. The diligence and hard work of Zoe Kruze at Routledge
was essential for the successful completion of this project. I also thank Andrew Mould
for his editorial guidance and for suggesting the book in the first place.
Last, but by no means least, thank you to all the students from the many classes of
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