Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
John Rennie Short is professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. His recent books include The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities, Hosting the Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities, and A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future.
In this cogent introduction to the state of contemporary geopolitics, Short provides an understanding of the basic themes of geopolitics and an overview of geopolitical issues around the globe. His regional approach to the study of the power relations between states is framed by a discussion of critical and popular geopolitical analysis.
Each regional chapter is designed to be directly comparative, including
-Geopolitical history
-Borders and boundaries
-National stability
-Regional geopolitics
-Changing geopolitical and geo-economics importance in the global system
-National concerns and global commons: issues of terrestrial and maritime resources, climate change
-Geopolitical hotspots
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
John Rennie Short is professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. His recent books include The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities, Hosting the Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities, and A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future.