Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-276) and index
Highlighting the contribution of Third World intellectuals, it examines the changing nature of spatial power and cultural representation. The book is unique in the way it reconceptualizes geopolitical analysis from a post-colonial perspective. A key motif concerns tracing the historical impact of US power on the societies of the South especially the Latin South. Throughout, ideas and events, interventions and representations are woven together in a critique of the effects of Western power