Week 8: The International System: Environmental Factors

 Topics for Reports:

• Environmental Factors as Conditioners of Foreign Policy
• Man-Milieu Relationships: Mahan, Mackinder, Haushofer
• Sprout, Harold and Margaret: An Ecological Paradigm
• The Limits of Growth Thesis and Its Critics
• Post-Cold War Geopolitical Perspectives

Basic Readings:
 
 

Choucri, Nazli and Robert North

"Dynamics of International Conflict: Some Policy Implications of Population, Resources, and Technology," World Politics (1972)

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"Population, Technology and Resources in the Future International System," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (1971)

Cohen, Saul B.

"Geopolitics in the New World Era: A New Perspective on an Old Discipline"

Demko, George J., and William B. Wood

"Introduction: International Relations through the Prisms of Georgraphy

Henrikson, Alan K.

"The Power and Politics of Maps," in George J. Demko and William B. Wood (eds.) Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the 21st Century (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), pp.3-71.

Dougherty, James E. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

* Contending Theories of International Relations, Ch. 2

Bowman, Isaiah

Geography in Relation to the Social Sciences (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934)

Chamberlain, Neil W.

Beyond Malthus: Population and Power (New York: Basic Books, 1970)

Choucri, Nazli

"Population, Resources and Technology: Political Implications of the Environmental Crisis," in David A. Kay and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, eds., World Eco-crisis: International Organizations in Response (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972)

Cohen, Saul B.

Geography and Politics in a World Divided, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973)

Dorpalen, Andreas

The World of General Haushofer (New York: Farrar and Reinhart, 1942)

Earle, Edward Meade, ed.

Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943)

Freeman, Christopher, Marie Jahoda, and K.L.R. Pavitt, eds.

Models of Doom: A Critique of the Limits of Growth (New York: Universe Books, 1973)

Gray, Colin S.

Maritime Strategy, Geopolitics and the Defense of the West (New York: National Strategy Information Center, 1986)

Gyorgy, Andrew

Geopolitics: The New German Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944)

Hollick, Ann L. and Robert E. Osgood

New Era of Ocean Politics (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)

Huntington, Ellsworth

Civilization and Climate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1915)

Jackson, W.A.D., et al.

Politics and Geographic Relationships (Prentice-Hall, 1964)

Johnston, R.J.

Geography and the State: An Essay in Political Geography (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982)

Jugan, Arthur D.

"Mackinder and His Critics Reconsidered," Journal of Politics (May 1962)

Kay, David and Eugene Skolnikoff

World Eco-Crises: International Organizations in Response (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972)

Kliot, Nurit and Stanley Waterman, eds.

Pluralism and Political Geography: People, Territory and State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983)

Mackinder, Halford J.

"The Geographical Pivot of History," The Geographic Journal, XXXIII (April 1904)

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Democratic Ideals and Reality (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1942)

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"The Round World and the Winning of Peace," Foreign Affairs, (July 1943)

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Distant Lands (London: George Philip and Sons, Ltd., 1910)

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Nations of the Modern World (London: G. Philip & Sons, Ltd., 1911)

Mahan, Alfred Thayer

The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897)

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The Interest of America in International Conditions (1910)

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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1890)

Maddox, John R.

The Doomsday Syndrome (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972)

Meadows, Donella H., et al.

The Limits of Growth (New York: Union Books, 1972)

Odel, Peter R.

Oil and World Power: Background to the Oil Crisis (New York: Tapluigei Publishing Co., 1975)

O'Sullivan, Patrick

Geopolitics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986)

Prescott, J.R.V.

Political Geography (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972)

Sauvy, Alfred

General Theory of Population (New York: Basic Books, 1969)

Semple, Ellen C.

Influence of Geographic Environment (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911)

Sprout, Harold and Margaret

An Ecological Paradigm for the Study of International Politics (Princeton: Center for International Studies, Research Monography No. 30 (1968)

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Foundations of International Politics (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1962)

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Man-milieu Relationship Hypotheses in the Context of International Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956)

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"Environmental Factors in the Study of International Politics," Journal of Conflict Resolution (1957)

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"Geopolitical Hypotheses in Technological Perspective," World Politics (January 1963)

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Toward a Politics of the Planet Earth (New York: Van Nostrand and Reinhold, 1971)

Strausz-Hupe, Robert

Geopolitics: The Struggle for Space and Power (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942)

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The Balance of Tomorrow (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945)