By Stuart Elden

ISBN-10: 0816654832

ISBN-13: 9780816654833

ISBN-10: 0816654840

ISBN-13: 9780816654840

Today's international politics calls for a brand new examine the idea that of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist corporations comparable to al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of latest regimes within the center East, the connection among territory and sovereignty is lower than siege. Unfolding an up to date realizing of the idea that of territory, Stuart Elden indicates how the modern "war on terror" is a part of a frequent problem to the relationship among the country and its territory.

Although the significance of territory has been disputed less than globalization, territorial relatives haven't come to an abrupt finish. really, Elden argues, the territory/sovereignty relation is being reconfigured. conventional geopolitical research is reworked right into a severe machine for interrogating hegemonic geopolitics after the chilly warfare, and is hired within the carrier of reconsidering discourses of probability that come with "failed states," disconnection, and terrorist networks.

Looking anew on the "war on terror"; the advance and alertness of U.S. coverage; the development and demonization of rogue states; occasions in Lebanon, Somalia, and Pakistan; and the wars carrying on with in Afghanistan and Iraq, Terror and Territory demonstrates how a severe geographical research, knowledgeable by means of political concept and historical past, can supply an urgently wanted point of view on global events.

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