Contents

1. Introduction: Geography of War and Peace
Colin Flint 3
I. FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIES
OF WAR AND PEACE
2. Geographies of War: The Recent Historical Background
Jeremy Black 19
3. Geography and War, Geographers and Peace
Virginie Mamadouh 26
4. Violence, Development, and Political Order
Herman van der Wusten 61
5. The Political Geography of Conflict: Civil Wars in the Hegemonic
Shadow
John OΓÇÖLoughlin 85
II. GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR
6. Soldiers and Nationalism: The Glory and Transience of a
Hard-Won Territorial Identity
Gertjan Dijkink 113
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7. Amazonian Landscapes: Gender, War, and Historical Repetition
Lorraine Dowler 133
8. Religion and the Geographies of War
Roger W. Stump 149
9. Geographies of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Lessons of
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Carl Dahlman 174
10. Dynamic Metageographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges
of Religious Terrorism and the ΓÇ£War on TerrorismΓÇ¥
Colin Flint 198
11. The Geography of ΓÇ£Resource WarsΓÇ¥
Philippe Le Billon 217
12. Landscapes of Drugs and War: Intersections of Political Ecology
and Global Conflict
Michael K. Steinberg and Kent Mathewson 242
13. Navigating Uncertain Waters: Geographies of Water and Conflict,
Shifting Terms and Debates
Leila M. Harris 259
14. Territorial Ideology and Interstate Conflict: Comparative
Considerations
Alexander B. Murphy 280
15. Peace, Deception, and Justification for Territorial Claims: The
Case of Israel
Ghazi-Walid Falah 297
16. Conflict at the Interface: The Impact of Boundaries and Borders
on Contemporary Ethnonational Conflict
David Newman 321
III. GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE
17. The Geography of Peace Movements
Guntram H. Herb 347
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18. The Geography of Diplomacy
Alan K. Henrikson 369
19. Shifting the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and
the Modern Magyars
Ian Oas 395
20. The Geopolitics of Postwar Recovery
Brendan Soennecken 415