Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial Rethinking North-South Relations [Paperback]

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.

• A novel approach to understanding US-Third World relations.
  
• Critically considers the genesis of US power.
  
• Interweaves ideas and events, interventions and representations.
  
• Highlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Conceptual and Historical Issues.

1 For a Post-Colonial Geopolitics.

2 Emerging Empire and the Civilizing Powers of Intervention.

Part II: Waves of Western Theory.

3 Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development.

4 The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and the Expansion of Western Power.

Part III: Archipelagos of Critical Thinking.

5 Societies of Insurgent Theory: the Dependentistas Write Back.

6 Exploring Other Zones of Difference: from the post-modern to the post-colonial.

Part IV: Geopolitics in a Globalizing World.

7 Post-Colonial Questions for Global Times.

8 'Another World is Possible' - on social movements, the Zapatistas and the dynamics of 'globalization from below'.

9 Conclusions: Beyond the Imperiality of Knowledge.

Notes.

References.

Index.

...stimulating, and replete with insights....no serious scholar of international relations can afford to miss it.
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