Geopolitics and Conflict in South America: Quarrels Among Neighbors

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This book examines the nature and impact of geopolitical thinking in South America especially in relation to a series of conflict situations in the region. The major portion of the book is devoted to an analysis of some twelve potential conflict situations in South America and includes information on the historical background, recent developments, and the relationship to other conflicts and modes of geopolitical thinking in the countries involved.

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This book makes a major contribution to the analysis of ways in which South American geopolitical thinking tend to influence and aggravate regional conflicts.... This well-structured book demonstrates the central thesis that little studied and less understood geopolitical thinking is one cause of the rising propensity toward conflict in South America.... Child is very good at synthesizing a widely scattered literature and this is the major contribution of the book. Students of South American conflicts now have at their disposal a veritable handbook cataloguing geopolitical thinking by country and by specific conflict.... Having systematically surveyed the impact of geopolitical thinking on regional conflicts, other efforts to assess the multiple causes of South American conflicts may now build on Child's findings.-South Eastern Latin Americanist
"This book makes a major contribution to the analysis of ways in which South American geopolitical thinking tend to influence and aggravate regional conflicts.... This well-structured book demonstrates the central thesis that little studied and less understood geopolitical thinking is one cause of the rising propensity toward conflict in South America.... Child is very good at synthesizing a widely scattered literature and this is the major contribution of the book. Students of South American conflicts now have at their disposal a veritable handbook cataloguing geopolitical thinking by country and by specific conflict.... Having systematically surveyed the impact of geopolitical thinking on regional conflicts, other efforts to assess the multiple causes of South American conflicts may now build on Child's findings."-South Eastern Latin Americanist

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