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Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological and economic forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War. Saul Bernard Cohen, one of the worlds leading political geographers, considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.
Beginning with a survey of geopolitics and its practitioners, Saul Bernard Cohen explains geopolitical terms, structure, and theory. He traces the geopolitical restructuring of the worlds different regions, its major powers, and the global networks that link them, thus creating a map of dynamic equilibrium. Cohen illustrates why those regionsthe convergence of what he terms the Maritime, Heartlandic Russian, and East Asian realms have become Gateways, while the Middle East remains a Shatterbelt and much of South America and Sub-Saharan Africa have grown marginalized.
The author argues that whether certain areas become Gateways or Shatterbelts is the key question influencing global stability. For example, the future of peripheral parts of the Eurasian Heartland-Eastern Europe, the Trans-Caucasus, and Central Asia depends on whether the major powers adopt policies of accommodation or competition. Cohen analyzes especially the current forces favoring accommodation, including the economic benefits of globalization and the common battle against terrorism.
Presenting a global spatial scope, the book considers the entire hierarchy of geopolitical unitssubnational, national states, and quasi-states; geopolitical regions; and geostrategic realms. By emphasizing the interaction between geographical settings and changing ideological and economic forces, Cohen has succeeded in creating a new global geopolitical map.

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Geopolitics

Geopolitics

The Geography of International Relations

Third Edition

Saul Bernard Cohen

Rowman & Littlefield

Lanham Boulder New York London

Published by Rowman & Littlefield

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

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Copyright 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield

First edition 2003. Second edition 2009.

All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

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Cohen, Saul Bernard.

Geopolitics : the geography of international relations / Saul Bernard Cohen. Third edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4422-2349-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-2350-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-2351-6 (electronic) 1. Geopolitics. 2. World politics. 3. Ethnic relations. 4. Security, International. 5. International relations. 6. Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) I. Title.

JC319.C62 2015

320.1'2dc23

2014029230

Picture 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Printed in the United States of America

Abbreviations and Acronyms

ABM

Antiballistic Missile (Treaty)

AFRICOM

United States Africa Command

AKP

Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi (Justice and Development Party)

ANZUS

Australia, New Zealand, United States

APEC

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum

ARAMCO

Arab-American Oil Company

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASSR

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

AU

African Union

BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

CAFTA-DR

Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement

CAP

Common Agricultural Policy

CARICOM

Caribbean Community

CASAREM

Central Asia-South Asia Regional Electricity Market

CENTO

Central Treaty Organization

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

COMECON

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

COMESA

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

CTBT

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

DEW

Distant Early Warning Line

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone (especially Korea)

EAC

East African Community

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

ECSC

European Coal and Steel Community

EEC

European Economic Community

EEZ

Exclusive Economic Zone

ELN

Ejrcito de Liberacin Nacional (Peoples Liberation Army)

ENT

Effective National Territory

ERT

Effective Regional Territory

ETA

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna

EU

European Union

FARC

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)

FATA

Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

Frelimo

Mozambique Liberation Front

FSU

Former Soviet Union

GAP

Guneydogu Anadolu Project

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GDP

gross domestic product

GNP

gross national product

GUAM

Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova

GUUAM

Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Moldova

ICBM

intercontinental ballistic missile

ICJ

International Court of Justice

ISI

Interservice Intelligence

ISIL

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

ISIS

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

KIZ

Kaesong Free Trade Industrial Zone

LNG

liquefied natural gas

MAD

mutually assured destruction

MED

mutual economic dependence

Mercosur

Mercado Comn del Sur

MPLA

Movimento Popular de Libertao de Angola (Peoples Movement for the Liberation of Angola)

MSD

mutual strategic dependence

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

*NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NMD

National Missile Defense (system)

NMS

new member states of the European Union

NORAD

North American Aerospace Defense Command

OAS

Organization of American States

OAU

Organization of African Unity

OMS

old member states of the European Union

OPEC

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

PAN

National Action Party (Mexico)

PEMEX

Petrleos Mexicanos

PJAK

Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistan (Party for Freedom and Life in Kurdistan)

PKK

Partiya Karkern Kurdistan (Turkish Workers Party)

R&D

research and development

RSFSR

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

SAARC

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

SACU

Southern African Customs Union

SADC

South African Development Community

SALT

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

SDF

(Japanese) Self-Defense Force

SEATO

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

SLORC

State Law and Order Restoration Council

SNAP

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