Dalby geoeconomics of GWoT - 1 views
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a broad complemen-tarity of geopolitical categories that link imperial military actiondirectly with neo-liberal globalisation. Both rely on a dichotomousmapping of the world into civilised core and dangerous periphery,categories that reprise earlier imperial mappings of the world andreplicate the violent practices of empire
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Ed Webb on 15 Nov 16As should be clear, Dalby takes a critical approach to geopolitics, drawing on the World Systems Analysis of Immanuel Wallerstein, who first developed the concept of core and periphery in modern IR.
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Such metageographies understood as the “spatial structures throughwhich people order their knowledge of the world”,5 often function as theontological categories of political thought and both limit and shape thinkingaccordingly.6 Metageographies “graph the geo” as in literally “writing theearth” in ways that are apparently obvious but which are spatial specificationswith very considerable power.
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discrepancies between olderformulations of empire with assumptions of territorial control and nationalambition abroad, and novel formulations of Empire, where sovereignty andeconomic power transcend the geopolitical constraints of sovereign nationstates
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in these two exercises in practical geopolitical reasoning, liesthe logic of the global war on terror and the imperial aspirations of the Bushadministration to effectively extend the remit of Empire by forc
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the events of 11 September have set in motiona rethinking of the military priorities in Washington. While it is too soon toknow how this reorganisation of the American military will play out, andwhether any of it will change the fortunes of the occupations in Iraq orAfghanistan, what is key to Barnett’s whole discussion is the reinterpretationof the geopolitical map, a redrawing of the spatial categories and the inven-tion of a whole new region of potential dangers where a third of the world’spopulation lives outside the reach of globalisation
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the assertion that America is a nation at war and there-fore military actions are an integral part of foreign policy initiatives. The worldis divided into commands which cover the whole globe and increasingly pro-vide the infrastructural capacity to move combat forces rapidly from one partof the globe to another.
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The bifurcation of the world into wild and tame, civilised and barbar-ian, integrated and non-integrated underlies all three of the geopoliticalvisions discussed here
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his imperial vision, and in Kaplan’s writing, at least, it isunapologetically an imperial vision, with all the moral codes of missionaryzeal that come with patrolling the uncivilised landscapes of the periphery,comes with the premise of civilisation’s moral and technological superiority
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strategies of regional economic integration are understood as an importantkey to providing economic prosperity that should in turn undercut theappeal of terrorist violence