Introduction to Geopolitics

partition 199; state terrorism in Kashmir
conflict 166; territorial dispute with China
200, 201
Indian National Congress 204
Indo-Pakistan war 200, 201–2
Indonesia
161
industries: location 5
infant mortality rates 4, 
5
information flows 159
Ingush people 113; plight of refugees 116–17
Ingushetia/Ingushia 114, 116
Institute of Foreign Policy Analysis 63
institutions: locale 6
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) 205
international cooperation: borderlands 148;
counter-terrorism 176, 186
international law: violation by US extra-
terrestrial actions 184–5
International Military Education and Training
Program (MET) 
167
Internet 93, 159
investment: Chinese capitalists in Vancouver
8; Putin’s pledge for Central Asian
republics 64; transnational networks 159
IRA (Irish Republican Army) 166, 173
Iran: “axis of evil” 74, 76; decisions regarding
nuclear weaponry 25, 212; Israeli conflict
with 142; war with Iraq 57, 95–6
Iraq: agency of insurgents 27; “axis of evil”
74, 76; Blair’s support for US invasion
25, 55, 58; Bush’s justification of war on
79, 80–1, 182, 185; casualties suffered by
Iraqis in war 
197
; funding of Palestinian
groups 169; geography of battle for
control 4, 6, 9; invasion of Kuwait 94,
96–8, 177; media images of war 92, 93;
political horse-trading after elections
209–11; proposed democratization of 157;
resistance against creation of Israel 141;
Saddam’s representation of Gulf War
(1991) 79, 94–9; targeted with sanctions
58; US deployment of troops in 47, 
48
,
194; US invasion and war on 42, 70, 71,
81, 94, 99, 131, 195; US representations
of recent war 37, 99–101; war with Iran
57, 95–6; and “War on Terrorism” 13, 94,
185; woman and child in bombsite 
29
Irgun 168
Irish jokes 85
“Iron Curtain” 13, 
14
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15
, 40
irredentism 136
Islam: Orientalist portrayals 92
Islamic fundamentalism/radicalism: Central
Asian republics 61, 64; and murder of
Theo van Gogh 7
Islamic Students League (ISL) 205, 206
Israel: Arab resistance against 94, 140; border
with Egypt 
133
; boundaries 133, 138;
conflict with Palestine 71, 132, 138–46,
166, 169, 194; conflicts with Arab states
71, 95, 141; creation of 86, 95, 140–1;
domination in terms of “facts on the
ground” 142; favoured in Oslo II
Agreements (1995) 142–3, 
143
; and
Iran’s decisions on nuclear power 25;
Irgun 168; Jews’ beliefs motivating
terrorism 171–2; justification of
preemptive attacks 184; land for peace
solution 142; Saddam Hussein’s missile
attacks on 98–9; settlements in Palestinian
lands
145
; state terrorism against
Palestinians 166; as target for terrorism
165
Israeli Defense Forces 190
Italy 168
ITN 93
Jamaat-e-Islami 206
Jammu
192
,
193
, 197; geopolitical agency
203–8; history of conflict 197–203
janjaweed
190–1
Japan: geopolitical thought 23; and history of
Korea 149, 150; maintenance of US bases
in 47; as possible threat to US 50; post-
war ideological influence 49; US
domination of Okinawa 10–11; World
War II firebombing of 
162
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Jemaah Islamiah 180–1, 181
Jerusalem 70, 140, 141, 143, 146
Jews: bin Laden’s claim about US aims 70;
Holocaust 140; national identity and
Zionism 139; proposal for national home
for 140
jihad
176
jokes: and “knowledge” of other countries 84,
85
Jones, James: 
The Thin Red Line
119–20
Jordan 141, 142
Juergensmeyer, M. 
173
Kadyrov, Akhmat 115
Kandahar 177
Kaplan, Robert 23, 44, 91–2, 92
Kashmir 166, 181, 
192
,
193
, 197, 
203
;
geopolitical agency 203–8; history of
conflict 197–203
Kazakhstan 61, 64, 113
Kennan, George 22, 23, 24
Kenya: al-Qaeda 177, 178; Mau Mau 168
Khartoum 177, 191
Khomeini, Ayatollah 95
Khrushchev, Nikita 114
killings: in ethnic cleansing 110; genocide
committed in Darfur 190–1; US extra-
terrestrial actions 184, 185
Kilroy-Silk, Robert 92
Kim Dae Jung 153
Kim Il Sung 150, 151, 151–3
Kim Jong Il 153
Kjellen, Rudolf 20, 23, 34–5, 66
Klare, M.T. 
210
KMM (Kumpulan Militan/Mujahideen
Malaysia) 180–1
“knowledge”: of Arab world created by US 86;
cultural message of Hollywood epics 87;
popular ideas of countries 84–5; 
see also
situated knowledge
Knox, P.L. 2, 3
Kobe
162
Kofman, E. 13, 16
Konrád, György 23, 40
Koran 70, 71
Korea: and establishment of North
Korea–South Korea boundary 149–53
Korean peninsula