Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history.

This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How do these changes occur? Over what period of time do these changes occur? The theories of Sir Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman are examined in order to provide an analytical narrative for five case studies, four historical and one contemporary. Taken together they offer the prospect of converting descriptions of historical change into analytic explanations, thereby highlighting the importance of a number of commonly overlooked variables. In addition, the case studies will illuminate the challenges that states face when attempting to change the scope of their foreign policy and geo-strategy in response to shifts in the geopolitical reality. This book breaks new ground in seeking to provide a way to understand why and how the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy both expands and contracts.

This book will be of much interest to students of geopolitics, strategic studies, military history, and international relations.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Colin S. Gray

Preface

1. Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy, a Trinity of Relations

2. Geopolitics: Methods and Theories

3. British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis

4. Britain, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic: Failure and Redemption

5. A Geographical Aurora: Geopolitics in the United States during the Second World War

6. Geopolitics and Containment 1945-1973: A Strategy without Limits

7. The Geopolitics of China and the Pacific Pivot

8. Conclusions

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Geopolitical Theory
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Geoffrey Sloan
Foreword by:	Colin S. Gray
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-33959-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Defence strategy, planning & research > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War Promotions
LSN:	1-138-33959-8
Barcode:	9781138339590

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