Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century [Hardcover]

This book looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and geopolitical forces over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed a struggle between geopolitical states who wanted to close off and control earth space, resources and population and globalizing ones who wished to open up the world to the free flow of ideas, goods and services. Brian W. Blouet analyzes the tug-of-war between these tendencies, the playing out of which determined the shape and behavior of today's world. Beginning his survey in the late nineteenth century, Blouet shows how the Second World War served to focus international awareness on the ramifications of global controls, and how we may be facing the end of geopolitics today.

Brian W. Blouetis Huby Professor of Geography and International Education at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the author ofHalford MacKinder: A Biography(1987).

Introduction
1. Imperialism, Globalization, Geopolitics
2. The Geopolitics of the First world War, 1914-19
3. Who Rules East Europe Commands the Heartland
4. The Collapse of World Order
5. The New Order of 1942
6. Planning the Postwar World
7. The Cold War and the Triumph of Geopolitics
8. Globalization and the Death of Geopolitics?
References
Select Bibliography
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index