Table of Contents

Introduction - geo-power; geopolitics; critical geopolitics; imperial incitement - Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the writing of geographical sight; "Its smart to be geopolitical" - narrating German politics 9in US political discourse, 1939-1943; critical approaches to "geopolitics"; between an holocaust and a quagmire - "Bosnia" in the US geo-political imagination, 1991-1994; visions and vertigo - postmodernity and the writing of global space.