@article{852368,
      recid = {852368},
      author = {Ruthven, Malise,},
      title = {Carving up the globe : an atlas of diplomacy /},
      pages = {256 pages :},
      note = {Relief shown by contours and shading.},
      abstract = {"Where do you draw the line? In the context of  geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question.  For thousands of years, it has been the work of diplomats  to draw the lines in ways that were most advantageous to  their leaders, fellow citizens, and sometimes themselves.  Carving Up the Globe offers vivid documentation of their  handiwork. With hundreds of full-color maps and other  images, this atlas illustrates treaties that have  determined the political fates of millions. In rich detail,  it chronicles everything from ancient Egyptian and Hittite  accords to the first Sino-Tibetan peace in 783 CE, the  Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, and the 2014 Minsk Protocol  looming over the war in Ukraine. But there is more here  than shifting territorial frontiers. Throughout history,  diplomats have also drawn boundaries around valuable  resources and used treaties to empower, liberate, and  constrain. Carving Up the Globe encompasses these  agreements, too, across land, sea, and air. Missile and  nuclear pacts, environmental treaties, chemical weapons  conventions, and economic deals are all carefully rendered.  Led by Malise Ruthven, a team of experts provides lively  historical commentary, which--together with finely crafted  visuals--conjures the ceaseless ambition of princes and  politicians. Whether they sought the glory and riches of  empire or pursued hegemony, security, stability, and GDP  within the modern international system, their efforts  culminated in lines on a map--and the enormous real-life  consequences those lines represent and enforce"--Dust  jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/852368},
}