Routledge National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain

Product Description From the Third Reich to Bosnia, nationalism - a sense of a nation's place in the world - has been responsible for much bloodshed. Nationalism may be manipulated by political leaders or governments but it springs from the people. Something in the history and environment of a national group creates it. This volume aims to locate and analyze the myth of national identity and its value in creating pride, deflecting fear or legitimating aggression. A range of essays - on Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, Iraq, Serbia, Argentina, Australia, and India - illustrate the different manifestations of the geographical imagination across the countries of the world. Review ..." an accessible application and presentation of the tenets of critical geopolitics without being shallow or superficial ... Dijkink provides enough contributions ... for this book to act as a map in a variety of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses ...[This] will be very helpful in guiding future research to increase our understanding of the cultural sources of state policy." -"Journal of Cultural Geography About the Author Gertjan Dijkink is Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Amsterdam.