World Politics of Peace and War: Geopolitics in Another Key: Geography and Civilization (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

This book is about the roe of geography and civilization in past, present and future world politics. Geographically the world has been badly served by a division into three parts: "free" meaning capitalist, socialist, and the poor "Third World"; West, East and South. Civilizationally the Northwest is Catholic-Protestant-secular; the Northeast Orthodox-secular, Muslim and Hindu; the Southeast Daoist and Buddist. Civilizations leave strong imprints on the worlds and their relations. One of them, Western civilization (but also Islam) sees itself with the right and duty to impose itself on others, even eliminating them. Based on this analysis and diagnosis, the book offers a view into the future, a prognosis, and proposals for a strategy away from war, toward peace.