Introduction to Geopolitics

152
Korean War 40, 89, 151, 153, 194; aftermath
151–3
Kosovo: US troops 
56
Kurds: demands after Iraqi elections 209–10,
211; Saddam’s actions against 98
Kuwait: British control of 96, 139; Iraqi
invasion of (1990) 94, 96–8, 177
Kyrgyztan 61, 63, 64
labor unions 26
Lahore
182
, 198
lakes: and demarcation of boundaries 137
land conflict 43
landscape: and demarcation of boundaries 137
Laquer, W. 169
Latin America 126
Lebanon 138, 141
Lebed, Alexander 114
Lenin, V.I. 81, 113, 209; statue in Moscow 
9
Lewis, Bernard 92
Lewis, M.W. 158
liberalism 44
Libya 169
Life
magazine 21
local geopolitical codes 59
locale 6, 
10
, 24
location 5, 
10
, 24
London: Docklands area 4; suicide bombings
179
London Borough of Hackney 105
London School of Economics 18
McAlister, M. 86
MacArthur, General Douglas 151
McCarthy trials, US 166
McCloy, John 150
Mackinder, Sir Halford 17–18, 
19
, 21, 24, 34,
34–5, 65, 158, 186
McKinley, President William 18
McNamara, Robert 
162
, 212
McVeigh, Timothy 164–5, 171
MAD (mutually assured destruction) 58
Madrid: al-Qaeda bombings 179
Mahan, Alfred Thayer 18, 18–20, 28, 34,
34–5, 35, 67, 186
Mailer, Norman: 
The Naked and the Dead
119,
120
Major, Prime Minister John 58
Malaysia
161
, 179
Malik, I. 198, 199, 205, 207
Mansfield, P. 139
Mao Zedong 151
“Mapping the Global Future” (National
Intelligence Council) 
60
maps: constructed by classic geopoliticians 24,
186; visibility of boundaries 132
marginalized groups 23, 165
Marston, S. 2, 3
I N D E X
230

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Marxist ideology: terrorist groups 168–9, 170
masculinity: on battlefield 119; heroes in
aftermath of September 11 120–1; nature
of geopolitical codes 120, 122–5
Maskhadov, Aslan 114–15, 119
Massey, Doreen 8–9, 10
Mau Mau 168
media: representations of geopolitics 86, 91;
satellite images of War on Terrorism
92–3
metageography 158, 
159
; al-Qaeda 179–81;
collective and ethnic identities in wars
194; and globalization 157, 160, 190;
networks framing “War on Terrorism”
158, 186; terrorist networks 173–6
Mexico 132
Middle East: al-Qaeda’s anti-US activities 40;
crises over establishment of Israel 86;
influence of Soviet Union 59; portrayal in
Hollywood biblical epic movies 69; US
military presence in 71, 181, 
210
migration: cultural networks 148; pastoral
peoples 136; places in relation to 2; 
see
also
diaspora
militarism 122–3
militarization 122–3, 128; boundary between
North and South Korea 153; US actions
in wake of September 11 155, 
161
military drone 
53
, 184
military exercises: China–Kyrgyztan 64
military expenditure: Great Britain 
44
; US
“victory” of Cold War 43–4
military power: China’s growth 209;
Eurocorps 42; and geopolitics of world
leadership 100–1; and imperial
overstretch of US 45, 47, 185; networks
of cooperation 159, 
161
, 162; US global
reach 51, 
52
, 184; US global troop
deployments 47, 
47
military training: and terrorism 169; US
Special Forces 
161
Milosevic, Slobodan 108
mineral resources 138
mineral rights 25
Modelski’s model of world leadership 34,
35–9,