Aligning Geopolitics, Humanitarian Action and Geography in Times of Conflict
Authors: O'Reilly, Gerry
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This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action. It elucidates concepts regarding conflict and power, as well as the role of the state and the international community in mitigating and preventing violence and war. Here the material and non-material, existential or imagined reasons for conflict are deconstructed, ranging from land and resource grabs to Utopian ideals that can degenerate into dystopias, as with Daesh’s caliphate in Syria and Iraq. In turn, the issues discussed range from the local to wider national and global levels, as do their resolution mechanisms. Due to insecurities, the impacts of globalization, divisive nationalistic and isolationist reactions emerging in some democracies including the USA, the UK’s Brexit stress, and the ominous rise of populist parties across continental Europe (from France and the Netherlands to the Visegrád Group, the Balkans, and Greece), citizen fatigue has become increasingly evident, reflected in ever-growing socio-political malaise and violence.
As the impact of any humanitarian disaster is proportional to the level of development of the area affected, concepts and categories of humanitarian action are explored, along with development issues at their core, especially in the Global South. Broadly speaking, humanitarian disasters fall into the categories of natural, human-made, technological, or complex; here, however, the focus is on human-made crises. Attempts at greater regulation, national and international organization and multilateralism to prevent violent conflicts, as well as enhanced responses to humanitarian emergencies, need to be supported now more than ever before.
This textbook will appeal to graduate and upper undergraduate students and practitioners in the fields of geography, geopolitics, humanitarian action and geographies of conflict and war. In addition to the main content, it includes exercises, questions and sections for autonomous student learning.
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Gerry O'Reilly is an Associate Professor of Geography at Dublin City University (DCU), with research interests in geopolitics, development, and political-economic and cultural geography. His teaching focuses on Geopolitics and Humanitarian Action, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Spaces of Memory. Before joining the DCU in 1997, he held lectureship and research posts at University College Dublin and the Universities of Durham, Tunis, and Algeria-Annaba, and served as a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus. Regarding Humanitarian Action and Geopolitics and as a Faculty member of ECHO (EU Humanitarian Office) - NOHA (Network on Humanitarian Action), he was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow at Western Cape University, RSA (2009), Toronto York University (2008) and Columbia University, NY (2007). Gerry is currently Vice President of EUROGEO - EAG (European Association of Geographers).
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Geopolitics
Pages 9-27
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Territoriality: Identity, State and Nation Revisited
Pages 29-57
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The Causes of Conflict
Pages 59-89
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Can Democracy Be All Things to All People?
Pages 91-113
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Aligning Geopolitics, Humanitarian Action and Geography in Times of Conflict
- Authors
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- Gerry O'Reilly
- Series Title
- Key Challenges in Geography
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-11398-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-11398-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-11397-1
- Series ISSN
- 2522-8420
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 262
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
- Topics