Geopolitics and the Globalization in the Twentieth Century

(Paperback, Revised and expanded ed.)

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Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and geopolitical forces over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed a struggle between geopolitical states who wanted to close off and control earth space, resources and population (Nazi Germany, the USSR) and globalizing ones who wished to open up the world to the free flow of ideas, goods and services (Britain, and later America). Geopolitics and Globalization describes and analyzes the tug-of-war between these two tendencies, the playing out of which determined the shape and behaviour of the world we live in today.

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"Destined to influence this debate for years to come."--History Today, on the first edition

"Offers an impressive marshalling of geopolitical history"--Journal of World History, on the first edition

Author Bio

Brian W. Blouet is Huby Professor of Geography and International Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg. He is the author of Halford MacKinder: A Biography (1987).