Critical Geopolitics

Borderlines #6

by Gearóid O’Tuathail

This volume presents an analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - aim to unearth a political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the 20th century.

Genres: Geography, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1996

Reviews

[Javier · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overall, I was very unimpressed with this book. I would've given it 1 star if not for the chapter on Bosnia as being "between a quagmire and a Holocaust." This was the only redeeming aspect of the book for me, since I learned from that (reflecting my ignorance about the Balkan wars of the 1990's). The author is way too enamored with Foucault and post-structuralism for me. This leads him to have no material analysis of capitalism or imperialism in a book that is supposedly all about a "critical approach" to geopolitics. So much filler and excessively academic jargon here.

[Taha Acar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeopolitik kuramlarıyla ilgilenen her öğrencinin okuması gereken, günümüz Eleştirel Jeopolitik yaklaşımının kurucularından olan Gearoid O Tuathall'ın 'mükemmel' kitabı.