Dictionary Geopolitics - Yves Lacoste

Dictionary Geopolitics - Yves Lacoste - Distribution Union, TL, Beyond ideology, geopolitics is a way of seeing the world. This dictionary presents a comprehensive approach to geopolitics: the geography of power relations, tensions, territorial issues, claims. The author, a "dictionary is a tool to fight against ignorance and it gives a country by country, a kind of simplified directory of mutual grievances and geopolitical disputes." It is not surprising diversity of topics: articles by country, region, articles on cities (Hong Kong) in rivers (Euphrates) to sets (Europe, Third World) in political movements, legal concepts (State Law of the Sea), to themes (drugs). More than an encyclopedic dictionary is a tool of citizenship and information offered by Yves Lacoste, a specialist in geopolitics: key for analyzing the arguments involved in a conflict, to fight against conventional wisdom. Addressing a large audience and enriched with many maps, this dictionary offers everyone a response to a media discourse often confused. - Matthew Reno