اروپا در جهان: ژئوپلیتیک‌های اتحادیهٔ اروپا و شکل‌گیری فضای اروپایی

Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in bombed-out cities and towns to the reframing of national identities to accommodate changed historical narratives, the term has become synonymous with notions of'post-conflict'society; it draws much of its rhetorical power from the neat demarcation, both spatially and temporally, between war and peace. The reality is far more complex. In this volume, reconstruction is identified as a process of conflict and of militarized power, not something that clearly demarcates a post-war period of peace. Kirsch and Flint bring together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new political institutions and destroying old regimes. Challenging the false dichotomy between war and peace, this book explores instead the ways that war and peace are mutually constituted in the creation of historically specific geographies and geographical knowledges. Over The Last Quarter-century, Evangelicalism Has Become An Important Social And Political Force In Modern America. Here, New Voices In The Field Are Brought Together With Leading Scholars Such As William E. Connolly, Michael Barkun, Simon Dalby, And Paul Boyer To Produce A Timely Examination Of The Spatial Dimensions Of The Movement, Offering Useful And Compelling Insights On The Intersection Between Politics And Religion. This Comprehensive Study Discusses Evangelicalism In Its Different Forms, From The Moderates To The Would-be Theocrats Who, In Anticipation Of The Rapture, Seek To Impose Their Interpretations Of The Bible Upon American Foreign Policy. The Result Is A Unique Appraisal Of The Movement And Its Geopolitical Visions, And The Wider Impact Of These On America And The World At Large. Pt. 1. Contesting The American Holy Land. What Would Lee Do? : Religion And The Moral Landscapes Of Southern Nationalism In The United States / David Jansson -- Contests Over Latter-day Space : Mormonism's Role Within Evangelical Geopolitics As Seen Through Last-days Novels / Ethan Yorgason -- Obama, Son Of Perdition? : Narrative Rationality And The Role Of The 44th President Of The United States In The End-of-days / Jason Dittmer -- Pt. 2. American Evangelical Exceptionalism. Apocalyptic Exceptionalism : Rosenberg, Clancy And The Prophecy Of Americanism / Simon Dalby -- The 'new World Order' And American Exceptionalism / Michael Barkun -- Imagining Apocalyptic Geopolitics : American Evangelical Citationality Of Evil Others / Tristan Sturm -- Pt. 3. Missionary Geopolitics. The Problematic Synergy Between Evangelicals And The Us Senate In Sub-saharan Africa / Hannes Gerhardt -- Reaching The Unreached In The 10/40 Window : The Missionary Geoscience Of Race, Difference, And Distance / Ju Hui Judy Han -- Between Armaggeddon And Hope : Dispensational Premillennialism And Evangelical Missions In The Middle East / Carolyn Gallaher. Edited By Jason Dittmer And Tristan Sturm. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the international arena. Drawing on case studies that range from the Arctic to East Africa, the nine empirical chapters provide a critical geopolitical reading of the ways in which particular places, countries, and regions are brought into the EU's orbit and the ways in which they are made to work for 'EU'rope. The analyses look at how the spaces of 'EU'ropean power and actorness are narrated and created, but also at how 'EU'rope's discursive (and material) strategies of incorporation are differently appropriated by local and regional elites, from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The question of EU border management is a particularly important concern of several contributions, highlighting some of the ways in which the Union's border-work is actively (re)making the European space.

This timely book explores the diverse geographies of the War on Terror. Drawing on recent advances in social theory, it offers new case studies and theoretical reflections on one of the central issues in contemporary geopolitics. Unlike more traditional forms of geopolitical research, the authors neither seek to advise particular foreign and security making communities, nor privilege a select group of states such as the United States and its allies, nor focus solely on headline geopolitical issues. Bringing together a wide-range of examples within practical, popular and formal geopolitical imaginations, practices and experiences, this volume considers how these both rely upon and contest relations of gender, race and coloniality. It addresses current debates in social theory by deploying three broad approaches to interrogate the War on Terror: discourse and performance; biopolitics and governmentality; and affect. In doing so, the book demonstrates the reach of the War on Terror into a wide variety of social contexts, its effects, and how people are responding to it Drawing on critical geopolitics and related strands of social theory, this book combines new case studies with theoretical and methodological reflections on the geographical analysis of security and insecurity. It brings together a mixture of early career and more established scholars and interprets security and the war on terror across a number of domains, including: international law, religion, migration, development, diaspora, art, nature and social movements. At a time when powerful projects of globalization and security continue to extend their reach over an increasingly wide circle of people and places, the book demonstrates the relevance of critical geographical imaginations to an interrogation of the present. This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the international arena. It draws on case studies that range from the Arctic to East Africa. This timely book explores the diverse geographies of the war on terror. Drawing on recent advances in social theory, it offers original case studies and theoretical reflections on one of the central issues in contemporary geopolitics