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Outside of academia geopolitics is widely imagined as (depending on your generation) chess, the board game Risk, or the Total War video games. Big men moving big guns across a big playing field. The world divided into clear sides. It’s all on the map, as little figurines. Put a fort in here, a uranium mine there. They’ve blown up the runway. Hold the port. Why do all of this? Oh, right, for security. To avoid, or win, the war. To keep the people safe. Or just, maybe, to keep the investments safe, to build an empire (Koopman 2011, 274).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    One way in which critical geopolitics can be expanded is through moving into post-modern/post-structural areas. While beyond the scope of this book, useful starting points for this research are Ó Tuathail and Agnew (1992), Ó Tuathail (1998), Roberts (2000), Heffernan (2000), Stephanson (2000), Sparke (2000), Luke (2003), and Slater (2003).

  2. 2.

    Or, as Nyroos (2001) describes it, ‘religeopolitics’; see also Yorgason and Robertson (2006).

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Pickering, S. (2017). Conclusion. In: Understanding Geography and War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52217-7_7

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