Research Catalog

Title

World politics of peace and war : geopolitics in another key : geography and civilization / Johan Galtung.

Author

Galtung, Johan

Publication

New York, New York : Hampton Press, [2015]

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Description

xxii, 209 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book is about the role of geography and civilization in past, present, and future world politics, developed in the mid-1980s geographically the world had been badly served by a division into three parts: 'free' meaning capitalist, socialist, and the poor "Third World"; East, West, and South. Left out was a Fourth World in the Southeast, with China, Japan, and other countries taking the world by surprise, first the Japanese miracle, then China. There is more to come. Civilizationally the Northwest is Catholic-Protestant-secular; the Northeast Orthodox-secular, Muslim, and Hindu; the Southeast Daoist and Buddhist. Civilizations leave strong imprints on the worlds and their relations. One of them, Western civilization (but also Islam) sees itself with the right and duty to impost itself on others, even eliminating them. Based on this analysis and diagnosis, the book offers a view into the future, a prognosis, and proposals for strategy away from war, toward peace.--

Series Statement

Hampton Press communication series

Uniform Title

Hampton Press communication series.

Subject

• Geopolitics
• Peace
• War
• World politics > 1989-
• Developing countries > Foreign relations
• Developed countries > Foreign relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781612891484
• 1612891489
• 9781612891491
• 1612891497

LCCN

^^2014037069

OCLC

• 902801933
• SCSB-11406474

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library