Introduction to Geopolitics

133
; in
ethnic cleansing process 111–12;
geopolitical codes 153; imposed on Latin
America 126; porosity 131; Russian
Caucasus
134
; state control of 133; and
trans-boundary interaction 146
boundaries: connection with security 133–4;
“de facto” Israeli state 141; definition
132; demarcation 137, 146; division of
Korea 150, 151; geopolitics 30, 126,
131–2, 132–3, 146, 153–5; states and
national identity 134, 136; and trans-
boundary interaction 146–7; US defense
of territory 154
boundary conflicts 
138
, 146; fictional country
“Hypothetica” 134, 
135
; and geopolitical
codes 134–6; Israel and neighbouring
Arab states 138
Bowman, Isaiah 21
Boyd, Andrew 
138
Brazil 23
Bregman, A. 139
Britain: aim of introducing identity cards
153–4; Arab nationalist resistance against
94; and Blair’s support for invasion of
Iraq 25, 55, 58, 99; capture of Lahore
198; and challenge of Germany 65, 66; in
classic geopolitical theories 17–18, 18,
20, 21, 24, 34, 65–6, 67; and control of
Caspian Sea oil and gas 63; control of
Kuwait 96, 139; and creation of Israel
140; cycles of world leadership 39, 
39
;
declining power during period of global
war 65, 81; definition of allies 56; dispute
with Spain over Gibraltar 126; extension
of influence into Ottoman territory 139;
interests in Asia and the Pacific 149;
military expenditures 
44
; and Northern
Ireland conflict 172, 173; recent 
London bomb attacks and attempts 179;
sale of weapons to Iraq 57; and Suez
canal crisis 41; World War II propaganda
poster
59
British Commonwealth 56, 154
British Empire: end of rule in India 199; and
maintenance of Great Britain’s supremacy
65, 66; patterns of immigration and
citizenship 154
Brokaw, Tom 155
Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization 7
Burma
see
Myanmar/Burma
Bush, President George H.W. 40, 98
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224

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Bush, President George W.: Blair’s support for
55, 58; deployment of US troops in
Central Asia 63; geopolitics portrayed in
Fahrenheit 9/11
80; justification of
invasion of Iraq 71, 79, 80–1, 81, 101,
182, 185; rhetoric of boundary defense
154; and similarities of Truman’s foreign
policy 67; State of the Union Speech
(2002) 74, 121, 153
Call, Chuck 
167
Camp David peace agreement 141–2
“capability threat” 47
capitalism: landscape of Moscow 9, 
9
; view of
Iraq war in 
Fahrenheit 9/11
80;
Wallerstein’s world-system theory 
35
Caribbean 59, 67
Carter, President Jimmy 
76
Caspian Sea basin: oil and gas reserves 61,