National Identity and Geopolitical Visions
Subtitle: Maps of Pride and Pain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 25, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780415139342
First sentence: 'Remember the words of Napoleon: Each state follows the politics of its geography.'
Description: National Identity and Geopolitical Visions searches for national orientations in the relationship of a people with the world, a relationship based on the desire for state security and for an influence outside that state.

Through nine country-specific essays - on Germany, Britain, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Serbia, Iraq and India - the author explores whether there is continuity in national values and foreign policy, and how such geopolitical visions are shaped by national and international events. The pattern is diverse, but geopolitical visions are never the rational evaluation of a country's strategic advantages that the word "geopolitics" suggests.