Geographer's Revenge
In casting about for an explanation of what went wrong in Iraq, Robert Kaplan has stumbled into the shallows of geopolitics.
Jason Dittmer
is a reader in human geography at University College London. He's the author of Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics, Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity, and the co-editor of Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions.