• Title of article

    A revolution in military geopolitics?

  • Author/Authors

    Richard Ek، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    34
  • From page
    841
  • To page
    874
  • Abstract
    This paper looks into the recent discussions within the US military community of a coming or current ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA) which is said to imply fundamental changes in military geopolitical imaginations and practices (military geopolitics). In a first step, an account of the rhetorical and the conceptual part of the discourse of the RMA is conducted. In a second step, the proclaimed RMA is situated within a wider cumulative technological and organizational development in warfare after the Second World War. In a third step, special attention is given to geopolitical incongruities or contradictions apparent within the discourse of the RMA, and between the rhetorical part of the RMA and more conventional geopolitical practices and imaginations. In a conclusion, the promise of an actor–network approach in further investigations of contemporary techno-geopolitical discourses and practices is spoken for.
  • Keywords
    Military , Geographical imagination , technology , Geopolitics
  • Journal title
    Political Geography
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Political Geography
  • Record number

    1291538