Geopolitics Of The United States

Geopolitics Of The United States

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Table of Contents

Introduction 2

Table of Contents 3

Part 1: The Inevitable Empire 4

The North American Core 4

Imperatives 12

1. Dominate the Greater Mississippi Basin 12

2. Eliminate All Land-Based Threats to the Greater Mississippi Basin 15

3. Control the Ocean Approaches to North America 22

4. Control the World's Oceans 24

5. Prevent any Potential Challengers from Rising 27

Part 2: American Identity and the Threats of Tomorrow 32

Land, Labor and Capital 34

Current Context: Threats to the Imperatives 43

Afghanistan 43

China 44

Iran 45

Russia 47

The United States 49

THE GEOPOLITICS READER

THE 

GEOPOLITICS 

READER

edited by

Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby

and 

Paul Routledge

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

© 1998 Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby and Paul Routledge, collection and

editorial matter; the contributors, individual chapters

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The Geopolitics Reader/[edited by] Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby,

and Paul Routledge.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

(pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Geopolitics. I. Ó Tuathail, Gearóid. II. Dalby, Simon.

III. Routledge, Paul.

JC319.G49 1997

302.1´2–dc21 97–13460

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