Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance

by Jeremy Black

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

, 2024

Overview

History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle, Jeremy Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates. Geopolitics, he maintains, is as much about ideas and perception as it is about the actual spatial dimensions of power. Black’s study ranges widely, examining geography and the spatial nature of state power from the 15th century to the present day. He considers the rise of British power, geopolitics and the age of Imperialism, the Nazis and World War II, and the Cold War, and he looks at the key theorists of the latter 20th century, including Henry Kissinger, Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington, Philip Bobbitt, Niall Ferguson, and others.

Product Details

• Title: Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance
• Author: Jeremy Black
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 355
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780253018731, 9780253018687, 0253018684, 0253018730
• Resource ID: LLS:9780253018731
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T11:57:28Z

About Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black graduated from Cambridge University with a Starred First and did graduate work at Oxford University before teaching at the University of Durham and then at the University of Exeter, where he is professor of history. He has held visiting chairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008. His recent books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History, Air Power: A Global History, and Combined Operations: A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare.