This book is an extensively revised update of the editors' successful 1998 Geopolitics Reader . Whilst the new edition is organized around the same themes as the earlier edition -imperialist geopolitics, cold war geopolitics, 21st century geopolitics, the geopolitics of global danger and anti-geopolitics -the readings have been significantly refreshed. The dedication of the book to Rachel Corrie, Margaret Hassan, Daniel Pearl and Edward Said reflects a shift in focus away from the nuclear inspired logic of the Cold War and the post-Cold War realignment of geopolitical thinking towards the geopolitical imaginations framed by 9/11, the subsequent US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and increasingly the geopolitics of resource conflict and environmental change.The editors have assembled a body of readings that range from such classics of geopolitical thinking as Mackinder's 'The Geographical Pivot of History' through to often cited, but less often sighted, works such as the Project for a New American Century's 'Statement of Principles' or Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'. In introducing these readings the editors seek to disabuse readers of any notion that geopolitical reasoning provides a simple, detached or predictive body of knowledge. Rather in their commentary on each block of readings, the editors constantly ask the reader to confront the intellectual context of each reading. Consequently the strongly articulated theme that emerges from the collection is the need to reject geopolitical thinking based on Manichaean logics (encapsulated in President George W Bush's phrase 'if you are not with us, you are against us') and instead acknowledge and accept the complexity of the rela-