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Discusses US-led military and humanitarian operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, obstacles such as violent attacks, damaged infrastructure, frustration with occupiers, unemployment, and inadequate management; recommendations.

Complex emergencies continue to pose a significant challenge to the international community. Geographic information systems (GIs) offer those involved in planning for & responding to complex emergencies an analytically powerful information management tool for georeferenced data. The article discusses GIS-based programs in Kosovo, as well as potential applications for response coordination, rapid provision of basic needs & public security, political dialogue, human rights, & sustained economic development. 1 Figure. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the growing complexity of global crises, and the need for the international community to develop more clearly defined rationales, goals, and methods for intervention. Proposes development of an international standard on which to base future relief efforts, based on considerations of basic needs, public security, political dialogue, human rights/justice, and sustained economic development.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- PART 1 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY: RECURRING ISSUES, NEW PERSPECTIVES -- 1 Introduction: Political Geography for the Next Millennium -- 2 Changing Times, Changing Scales: World Politics and Political Geography Since 1890 -- 3 Geopolitics in the New World Era: A New Perspective on a Old Discipline -- 4 International Boundaries: Lines in the Sand (and the Sea) -- 5 The Power and Politics of Maps -- 6 Electoral Geography and Gerrymandering: Space and Politics -- PART 2 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE AND RESOURCES -- 7 Population, Politics, and Geography: A Global Perspective -- 8 International Migration: One Step Forward, Two Steps -- 9 Exploiting, Conserving, and Preserving Natural Resources -- 10 Geo-Analysis for the Next Century: New Data and Tools for Sustainable Development -- PART 3 INTERNATIONAL PROCESSES OF GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE -- 11 People Together, Yet Apart: Rethinking Territory, Sovereignty, and Identities -- 12 International Law and the Sovereign State System: Challenges to the Status Quo -- 13 Global Ecopolitics -- 14 Nongovernmental Organizations on the Geopolitical -- 15 Global Hegemony Versus National Economy: The United States in the New World Economy -- 16 Geopolitical Information and Communications in the Twenty-First Century -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index

Using an integrative approach to international relations, the second edition of Reordering the World returns the ?geo? to geopolitical analysis of current global issues. The contributors focus on key emerging world issues, such as spatial data technology, IGOs/NGOs, gender and world politics, boundary disputes, refugee flows, ecological degradation, and UN intervention in civil wars. They also assess the redefinition of international relations by instantaneous, worldwide financial and telecommunication linkages and explore the struggles of new multinational and nongovernmental organizations to define their roles. Using current real-world examples, this group of eminent geographers challenges the reader to rethink international relations and reorder the world political map.

Discusses activities of UN agencies concerned with forced, voluntary, internal, and international migration; some focus on work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).