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1、IMPERIALISM,DOMINATION,CULTURE:THERELEVANCEOFCRITICALGEOPOLITICSBySimonDalbyCarletonUniversitysdalby@gmail.comPaperforpresentationtotheInternationalPoliticalScienceAssociationconferenceon"InternationalPoliticalScience:NewTheoreticalandRegionalApproaches",C
2、oncordiaUniversity,Montreal30April/2May2008NOTE:amuchmoreextensiveversionofthispaperisforthcominginGeopolitics13(3)2008inaspecialissueon"CriticalGeopoliticsafterTwentyYears"ABSTRACTTwentyyearsagoGearóidÓTuathailcalledforanapproachwithinPoliticalGeographyth
3、atmadegeopoliticalcultureandtheformulationofforeignpolicytheobjectofanalysis.Hespecifiedthetaskofwhatsubsequentlybecamecriticalgeopoliticsastheneedtoexposethecomplicityofgeopoliticswithdominationandimperialism.Afterthecoldwartherewasadecadewhenmilitarymatt
4、ersdeclinedinimportanceandglobalizationconfusedthegeographicaldesignationsofdanger.Intheaftermathof9/11theutilityofforcehasbeenreassertedbyaneo-ReaganiteAmericanforeignpolicyusingmilitaryforceintheglobalwaronterrorandtheinvasionofIraq.Nowthegeopoliticalcul
5、tureisamatterofdebatesaboutempireandtheappropriategeopoliticaldesignationofdanger,whetherinThomasBarnett'snonintegratedgapon"thePentagon'sNewMap"orinthecomplexgeographiesofAlainJoxe's"EmpireofDisorder".Thisre-militarizationofglobalpoliticsclearlysuggeststh
6、econtinuedrelevanceofÓTuathail'sspecificationoftheneedforcriticalgeopoliticstograpplewiththeculturethatproducesimperialattemptsatdominationindistantplaces.2IMPERIALISM,DOMINATION,CULTURE:THERELEVANCEOFCRITICALGEOPOLITICSButinordertoconductourselvesproperly
7、,decently,weneedtosetourselvesagainsttheunbridledarrogancethatassumesthat"We"havethemonopolyof1Truthandthattheworldisnecessarilyorderedby–andaround–Us.2Howdidouroilgetundertheirsands?3LaGéographie,çasert,d'abord,àfairelaguerre.CRITICALGEOPOLITICSTHENANDNOW
8、GearóidÓTuathailstartedhis1986paperonthe"LanguageandNatureoftheNewGeopolitics",whichcanfairlybesaidtobethefirstexplicitattempttopositthescholarlyagendawhichsubsequentlyhasbecomeknownascriticalgeopolitics,comm
