By George J Demko, William Wood
Utilizing an integrative method of diplomacy, the second one variation of Reordering the area returns the geo” to geopolitical research of present worldwide concerns. The individuals specialize in key rising global matters, akin to spatial facts know-how, IGOs/NGOs, gender and global politics, boundary disputes, refugee flows, ecological degradation, and UN intervention in civil wars. in addition they examine the redefinition of diplomacy by means of prompt, world wide monetary and telecommunication linkages and discover the struggles of latest multinational and nongovernmental organisations to outline their roles. utilizing present real-world examples, this team of eminent geographers demanding situations the reader to reconsider diplomacy and reorder the realm political map.
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While economic trallsnationalism weakens international barriers, resurgent ethnic nationalism sparks savage local wars and uproots minority populations. Ultimately, the excesses of war and population displacement come to an end through a combination of exhaustion of warring factions and international intervention: witness the end of factional conflict in Lebanon, the disintegration of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Dayton-imposed peace in Bosnia, and the winding down of civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In other words, a global economic structure existed that restricted possible development options of states. Just as Cox had decided that scales within the state needed to. be studied, the dependency school realized that relaions between stares also required analysis, Challenges faced bp the United States to its ordering of the world revived academic engagement of geopolitics. S. 18 By adapting geopolitical concepts from Mackinder, Cohen identified ""shacterbelts," srategic regions the United States should target in its conflict with the Soviet Union, The coexistence of the dependency school and Cohen's geopolitics illustrates the varied perspectives during this period of political geography, While the dependency school was challenging the intellectual framework that the United States used to order the wostd, Cohen was identifying ways for the United States to adapt its foreign policy to the challenges it was facing.
The state as a geographic realm, based on nature-socsiety interaction, became the basis Eor power. If a sociery was deemed to be underutilizing its environment, then it could be forcibly evicted by a society better able to exploit it. The gaocide of Native Americans by the western expansion af the United States was seen as an example of how this principle worked in practice. If the realm of a state could be effectively expanded, then frontiers were moveable and borders could be redrawn by aggressive states.