Books in the Barrows Lectures series

In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

Challenges the prevailing logic of confrontation and deterrence on the Korean peninsula.

Engaged with theory and grounded in study of cultural, political, and economic change, this book considers the contemporary crisis of the nation-state in North America. It details the territorial implications of the Iraq war, NAFTA, welfare reform, constitutional reform, cross-border regional development, and the legal battles of First Nations.

Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners.

"Developed/underdeveloped", "first world/third world" - although there is nothing inevitable or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are accepted as legitimate ways to categorize regions and peoples of the world. This volume examines the ways these labels influence North-South relations.

How should we think about politics in a world where ecological problems - from the deforestation of the Amazon to acid rain - transcend national boundaries? This is the question addressed by the author.

This work provides a deconstruction of the idea of diplomacy that explores the links between its theory and practice. The author focuses on the language that underwrites and directs the theory and diplomacy, and shows that such a critical approach is actually a way of practising politics.