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Geography of Human Conflict - Approaches to Survival (Hardcover, New)
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Geography of Human Conflict - Approaches to Survival (Hardcover, New)
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Neville Brown's The Geography of Human Conflict was chosen runner
up to the winning title 'D Day' by Antony Beevor for the yearly
Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature prize organized
by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security
Studies This book is mindful of Geography's big dilemma. How can
the subject curb the encroachments of other disciplines:
environmental studies, human ecology, political science, geophysics
. . . ? The author believes that what we know as "strategic
studies" needs urgently to address a clutch of geography-related
considerations customarily seen as outside its remit. Climate
change is of singular import, security-wise. Moreover, other
pressures on our planetary ecology and resource base, currently
appear as critical, taken collectively. Societal and philosophic
contradictions are deeply endemic, too, not least within the modern
post-industrial nations. Again the attendant security implications
may lend themselves well to geographical interpretations. ...
Informing the study throughout will be an awareness of the
interactions between Space and Time, addressed not metaphysically
but in mundane terms. Then again, while linear distance and bearing
are becoming less crucially important, the two-dimensional aspects
of geographic space (areas and densities) are becoming more
critical. Germane, too, is the medium-term (20 to 30 years?)
prospect of biowarfare displacing nuclear bombs as the most
menacing form of mass destruction. The classical Chinese concept of
yin and yang will be examined as lending itself to singularly
fruitful application to conflict limitation in an ever-shrinking
world. ... Throughout a distinction is preserved between those
questions the author believes can be answered definitively, and
those which as yet can only be aired. For both, historical
experience will be evaluated in order to give more depth to the
interpretation of modern challenges - actual and predicted.
Emphasis will be laid on the development of regional associations
strong enough to deal with various aspects of a survival strategy:
nuclear deterrence, peacekeeping, arms control, developing economic
resources, rural and urban ecology. A final review concludes with
how one might hope a planetary community can evolve in the longer
term - i.e. up to one or two centuries ahead
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