Introduction to Geopolitics

95
; Baa’thist aims for 95;
“knowledge” of created by US 86;
resistance against creation of Israel 141;
Saddam as benefactor of 
97
; US military
presence 165
Arabs: grievances against partition of Palestine
140–1; Orientalist portrayals of 91, 92;
Palestinian 139, 140
Arafat, Yassar 144
Armenia 61, 64
arms sales 
see
weapons sales
Ashcroft, John 100
Asia: competitive colonization of 91; influence
of Soviet Union 59; Japanese expansion
into 149; socialist movements 40
Association of American Geographers 21
Atlantic Monthly
44,
209
Australia 22, 106, 165
“axis of evil” 74, 153
Azerbaijan 61, 63
Aznar, Jose Maria 58
Baader-Meinhof gang 168
Baa’thist ideology 95
Baghdad 4, 6, 9, 93, 96, 210; blog by
“Riverbend”
94
, 101
Baghdad Radio 98
Balfour Declaration 139–40
Balkans
48
Balkenende, Peter 7–8
Band of Brothers
(film) 83
Bangladesh 178, 201–2
Basra 96
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 93,
179
Beaverstock, J.V. 158
Belarus 64
Berlin 89
Berlin Wall 40
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 204
bin Laden, Osama 70–1, 165, 171, 
173
, 174,
176, 177, 181
biological analogies (end of nineteenth
century) 21, 66
Bismarck, Otto von 20
black-British (term) 128
Blair, Prime Minister Tony 25, 55, 58, 81, 99
Blake, G.H. 139
Blua, Antoine 64
Bolanios, Amelia 80, 81
Bolshevik Revolution (1917) 81, 113
Bombay
see
Mumbai
Bonesteel, Charles 150
borderlands 132, 146, 147–8, 155
borders: definition 132; Egypt–Israel