Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Front Matter
Title Pages
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Expand31 Introduction: Geography of War and Peace
Colin Flint
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17I Foundations For Understanding Geographies Of War And Peace
Colin Flint (ed.)
192 Geographies of War: The Recent Historical Background
Jeremy Black
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Expand263 Geography and War, Geographers and Peace
Virginie Mamadouh
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Expand614 Violence, Development, and Political Order
Herman Van Der Wusten
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Expand855 The Political Geography of Conflict: Civil Wars in the Hegemonic Shadow
John O’loughlin
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111II Geographies Of War
Colin Flint (ed.)
Expand1136 Soldiers and Nationalism: The Glory and Transience of a Hard-Won Territorial Identity
Gertjan Dijkink
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Expand1337 Amazonian Landscapes: Gender, War, and Historical Repetition
Lorraine Dowler
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Expand1498 Religion and the Geographies of War
Roger W Stump
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Expand1749 Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Carl Dahlman
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Expand19810 Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the “War on Terrorism”
Colin Flint
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Expand21711 The Geography of “Resource Wars”
Philippe Le Billon
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Expand24212 Landscapes of Drugs and War: Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict
Michael K Steinberg and Kent Mathewson
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Expand25913 Navigating Uncertain Waters: Geographies of Water and Conflict, Shifting Terms and Debates
Leila M Harris
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Expand28014 Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict: Comparative Considerations
Alexander B Murphy
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Expand29715 Peace, Deception, and Justification for Territorial Claims: The Case of Israel
Ghazi-Walid Falah
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Expand32116 Conflict at the Interface: The Impact of Boundaries and Borders on Contemporary Ethnonational Conflict
David Newman
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345III Geographies of Peace
Colin Flint (ed.)
Expand34717 The Geography of Peace Movements
Guntram H Herb
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Expand36918 The Geography of Diplomacy
Alan K Henrikson
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Expand39519 Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and the Modern Magyars
Ian Oas
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Expand41520 The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery
Brendan Soennecken
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Abstract
Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand its causes and consequences. However, how and why war occurs, and peace is sustained, cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks of communication, access to nested geographic scales, and patterns of resource distribution. This book takes advantage of a diversity of geographic perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression. Contributors to the volume examine particular manifestations of war in light of nationalism, religion, gender identities, state ideology, border formation, genocide, spatial rhetoric, terrorism, and a variety of resource conflicts. The final section on the geography of peace covers peace movements, diplomacy, the expansion of NATO, and the geography of post-war reconstruction. Case studies of numerous conflicts include Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzogovina, West Africa, and the attacks of September 11, 2001.