Political Geography (GEOG 4712) Summer 2007, Term B

Full citations for course readings:

Agnew, J. Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics. London: Routledge, 2003.

Barber, B. “Jihad vs. McWorld.” The Atlantic Monthly 269(3), 1992: 53-65.

Brass, P.  “Elite competition and nation-formation” 1979: pp. 83-9 in Hutchinson, J. and A. Smith (eds.).  Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Barnett, T.J. “The Pentagon’s new map: It explains why we are going to war and why we will keep going to war.” Esquire (March 2003) 174-179, 227-228.

Bax, M. “Planned policy or primitive Balkanism? A local contribution to the ethnography of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Ethnos 65(3), 2000: 317-40.

Baxter, J. “Cotton subsidies squeeze Mali”  May 19, 2003 (news.bbc.co.uk).

Belton, C. “Caspian Great Game Back On”  The Moscow Times May 5, 2006.

Collier, P. et al. Breaking the Conflict Trap.  Washington DC: World Bank, 2003.

Dalby, S. “Global geopolitics: Imagining the post-cold war world.” In Cox, K. et al. Handbook of Political Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.

Economist “Addicted to oil” The Economist. December 13, 2001.

Economist “Russia’s wars in Chechnya” The Economist. May 31, 2007.

Kaplan, R.  “Was democracy just a moment?” Atlantic Monthly, December 1997.

LeBillon, P. and El Khatib, F. “From free oil to 'freedom oil': terrorism, war and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf.” Geopolitics 9 (2004), 109-137.

Lieven, A. “America, right or wrong.” In G. O’Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge (eds) The Geopolitics Reader. 2^nd edition.  London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 164-173.

Nairn, T.  “The maladies of development” 1977: pp. 70-6 in Hutchinson, J. and A. Smith (eds.). Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Nutt, D. “Cottoning on to unfair trade”  The Guardian, July 15, 2003

Nye, J.  “The new Rome meets the new barbarians.”  The Economist, March 21, 2002.

Ohmae, K. “The Cartographic Illusion” In K. Ohmae The End of the Nation-State: The Rise of Regional Economies.  New York: Free Press, 1995.

O’Loughlin, J “Global democratization: Measuring and explaining the diffusion of democracy” In C. Barnett and M. Low (eds) Spaces of Democracy.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004, 23-46.

O’Loughlin, J “The political geography of conflict: Civil wars in the hegemonic shadow” in C. Flint (ed) The Geography of War and Peace: From Death Camps to Diplomats.  New York: Oxford

University Press, 2004, 85-110.

O’Loughlin, J. and G. O’Tuathail “Accounting for separatist sentiment: Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia compared” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1 September 2006.

O’Tuathail, G “Thinking critically about geopolitics” in G. O’Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge (eds) The Geopolitics Reader. 2^nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 1-14.

O’Tuathail, G and C. Dahlman “Post-domicide Bosnia and Herzegovina: Homes, homeland and one million returns. “ International Peacekeeping Vol. 13 (2006), 242-260.

Sachs, J, et al. “The geography of poverty” Scientific American March 2001, 70-75.

Slackman, M. “Ballot boxes? Yes.  Actual democracy? Tough question.” New York Times, June 7, 2007.

Taylor, P.J. and C. Flint Political Geography: World-system, nation-state and locality. 4^th ed. London: Longman, 2000.

Watts, M.  “Conjunctures and crisis:  Food, ecology and population and the internationalization of capital.”   Journal of Geography 86 (1987), 292-99.