By John Agnew
Making Political Geography acquaints readers with the most important concerns and conceptual difficulties that experience ruled the self-discipline over the last to 3 a long time. in addition to discussing and assessing present issues, Agnew offers a old research of the emergence of contemporary political geography from the Eighteen Nineties onwards, identifies and discusses the 3 "waves" of the revival of political geography over the past 3 a long time, and discusses facts for a brand new coherence to the self-discipline, centering round problems with geographical scale, position and politics, and so forth.
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Yet, the economic reality of the situation is that a new 'Palestine,' wherever it is located, will be dependent on Israel for a wide range of services and much employment for its population. Perhaps the only way out of the impasse in the long run is for both sides to accept a single state within which power would be shared? As yet, however, we are very far from that eventuality. 29 HOW POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY IS MADE Why Israel and Palestine cannot coexist on the same territory Edward Said, the noted literary scholar and Middle East commentator, offers a frank account of the demoralizing aspect of the seemingly immutable and intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict In his opinion, it is mostly about the inability to understand and embrace each side's narrative or story about why they claim the same territory: We [Palestinians] were dispossessed and uprooted in 1948, they [Israelis] think they won independence and that the means were just We recall that the land we left and the territories we are trying to liberate from military occupation are all part of our national patrimony; they think it is theirs by Biblical fiat and diasporic affiliation.
In conclusion, the understanding of the world political map, as promulgated in Cold War rhetoric and propaganda from 1947 to 1989, was of a set of fixed entities made up of self-contained, territorially distinct and contiguous states that could be arbitrarily used as 'chess pieces' 'dominoes,' or 'billiard balls' in the bi-polar game of ideological warfare between the US and its allies on the one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other. e. simply changing the lines on the map to fit the demands.
Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Profile of Jail Inmates 1996 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, April 1996), pp. 1 and 4; Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 1996 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1997), pp. e. 49 a day, or $23,554 a year]. 46 in societal costs. P. , Controlling Cocaine, Prepared for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the United States Army (Santa Monica, CA: Drug Policy Research Center, RAND Corporation, 1994), p. xvi. The heavy toll drug abuse exacts on the United States is reflected in related criminal and medical costs totaling over $67 billion.