Geopolitics - Chapter 34

Petersen, Mirko / Dorothea Wehrmann
Externe Publikationen (2020)

in: Olaf Kaltmeier / Anne Tittor / Daniel Hawkins / Eleonora Rohland (eds.), The Routledge handbook to the political economy and governance of the Americas, London: Routledge, 362-370

ISBN: 978-0-81535-268-6
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This book chapter sketches the history of the term geopolitics and maps the application of the concept in politics particularly in the Americas. It differentiates between classical, critical and radical geopolitics and investigates geopolitics in the context of colonialism and the Cold War.