A relational geography of war : actor–context interaction and the spread of World War I

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

RADIL, S.-M.

Dept. of Geography , Ball State Univ., Muncie, Etats-Unis

FLINT, C.

Dept. of Geography and Geographic Information Science , Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, Etats-Unis

CHI, S.H.

Dept. of Geography , Kyung Hee Univ., Seoul, Taiwan, Province de Chine

Description :
Using the case of World War I, this article investigates the expansion of the war from a localized political crisis in Austria–Hungary to a disastrous global scale conflict involving dozens of states. Using social network analysis-based methodologies to develop measures of context and evaluate our hypothesis, it finds that context had an important impact on states’ war-joining behavior during World War I. An understanding of context that fuses simultaneous embeddedness in network and geographic space with relational power and the methodology of blockmodeling can be used to explore the diffusion of other wars and even other phenomena across geographically situated actors.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, issn : 0004-5608, 2013, vol. 103, n°. 6, p. 1468-1484, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2013

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Washington, DC, Association of American Geographers

Langue :
Anglais