Killing for Cause? Geographies of War and Peace

Abstract

How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression. Geographies of war: the recent historical background / Jeremy Black -- Geography and war, geographers and peace / Virginie Mamadouh -- Violence, development, and political order / Herman van der Wusten -- The political geography of conflict: civil wars in the hegemonic shadow / John O'Loughlin -- Soldiers and nationalism: the glory and transience of a hard-won territorial identity / Gertjan Dijkink -- Amazonian landscapes: gender, war, and historical repetition / Lorraine Dowler -- Religion and the geographies of war / Roger W. Stump -- Geographies of genocide and ethnic cleansing: the lessons of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Carl Dahlman -- Dynamic metageographies of terrorism: the spatial challenges of religious terrorism and the 'war on terrorism' / Colin Flint -- The geography of 'resource wars' / Phillippe Le Billon -- Landscapes of drugs and war: intersections of political ecology and global conflict / Michael K. Steinberg and Kent Mathewson -- Navigating uncertain waters: geographies of water and conflict, shifting terms and debates / Leila M. Harris -- Territorial ideology and interstate conflict: comparative considerations / Alexander B. Murphy -- Peace, deception, and justification for territorial claims: the case of Israel / Ghazi-Walid Falah -- Conflict at the interface: the impact of boundaries and borders on contemporary ethnonational conflict / David Newman -- The geography of peace movements / Guntram H. Herb -- The geography of diplomacy / Alan K. Henrikson -- Shifting the iron curtain of Kantian peace: NATO expansion and the modern Magyars / Ian Oas -- The geopolitics of postwar recovery / Brendan Soennecken.