Guicciardini, geopolitics and geohistory : understanding inter-state relations / William Mallinson.
Mallinson, William.
2021
JZ1305
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Title Guicciardini, geopolitics and geohistory : understanding inter-state relations / William Mallinson.
Author Mallinson, William.
ISBN 9783030765378 (electronic bk.)
3030765377 (electronic bk.)
3030765369
9783030765361
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76537-8
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76537-8 doi
Call Number JZ1305
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.101
Summary This book demonstrates that geohistory is a more effective concept than geopolitics in understanding inter-state relations, at a time of considerable confusion in world affairs, and that Francesco Guicciardinis thoughts are an efficient medium to demonstrate not only the inadequacies of geopolitics, but that a geohistorical approach can be a more responsible way of understanding international affairs. The book introduces a fresh approach, based on the individual, on which corporate characteristics and behaviour depend, often in the shape of state interests, which are unable on their own to predict actions driven by human behaviour. The book shows how show mainstream international relations theories are stuck in paradigms, inadequate in explaining why world politics is moving in a direction that nobody could predict even a decade ago. It shows how ideology can blur clear understanding. In short, it represents a new and intellectually refreshing approach and method in understanding, and tackling, the vagaries of relations between states. William Mallinson, a former British diplomat, is professor of Political Ideas and Institutions at Guglielmo Marconi University and a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He has published numerous books and articles, of which his most recent are Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus, and Images in Words: Only History Exists.
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Series Palgrave studies in international relations.
Available in Other Form Guicciardini, geopolitics and geohistory.
GUICCIARDINI, GEOPOLITICS AND GEOHISTORY.
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Chapter one: explanation
Chapter two: who is guicciardini?
Chapter three: the war of the theories
Chapter four: geopolitics and the politicisation of geography
Chapter five: casualties of geopolitics
Chapter six: geohistory
Chapter seven: the effects of globalisation
Chapter eight: the ricordi and memory.

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