Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History by Geoffrey Sloan

Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History by Geoffrey Sloan

This work explains the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China, with particular, though not exclusive, reference to spatial relationships.

Winner of the 2017 Stratfor Prize for best book devoted to geopolitical analysis

'In this important and readable book Geoff Sloan brings Geography back into focus. He shows and explains Geography’s relationship to the formulation and execution of strategy and thus the exercise of political power. Now that the geopolitical ‘tectonic plates’, unfrozen at the end of the Cold War, are on the move; understanding these relationships is never more important.' -- General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM

'For too long international relations and politics has been dominated by trendy academic methods that inevitably reflect more about the theorist and the theories, than about the issues at hand that effect all our lives. Even worse – most contemporary works of that sort are inaccessible and downright unreadable – one thinks perhaps a point of pride for the authors at times! Professor Sloan has written a necessary corrective to this condition. Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History re-connects the actual experiences of the human condition with the principle forces that shape the world in which we live. Sloan’s shrewdness in using geopolitical approaches to explain the rise of domestic strategic cultures and the reasons for the differences between them does much more to explain the world in which we live than the narrow theoretical approaches of modern political theorists. With its emphasis on the dynamism and interrelation between history, geography, and power – this book enlightens and explains much that seems to befuddle modern policy makers and political spinmeisters. Students of the field and anyone interested in charting a way through the morass of today’s thorny international relations scene would do well to heed Sloan and the geopolitical approach.' -- The Honorable Dr. John Hillen, Former US Assistant Secretary of State

‘Geoffrey Sloan has given us a magisterial account of the intellectual value of geopolitics understood, as it should be, as the empirical study of the inter-relation of history, geography and strategy. Ranging from Britain’s abortive intervention in South Russia in 1920 to the geopolitical thinking discernible in China’s policy today, he reminds us that geopolitical understanding is an indispensable tool as much for the historian as for the contemporary policy-maker – and neglected at their peril.’ -- Professor John Darwin, University of Oxford, UK

Geoffrey Sloan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Formerly he was Head of the Strategic Studies and International Affairs Department at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Defence Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9780714653488
ISBN 10	0714653489
Title	Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History
Author	Geoffrey Sloan
Series	Geopolitical Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2017-02-23
Number of pages	270
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