Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict (PDF)

Colin Flint, a geographer by training, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. His research interests include geopolitics and world-systems analysis. He is the author of Introduction to Geopolitics (Routledge, 2022), Geopolitical Constructs (2016), and co-author, with Peter J. Taylor, of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (Routledge, 7th edition, 2018). He is editor of The Geography of War and Peace (2004) and co-editor (with Scott Kirsch) of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (2011). His books have been translated into Spanish, Polish, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and Farsi.

Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University. She studies ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, international forced migration, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor (with Orhon Myadar) of Making and unmaking refugees: Geopolitics of social ordering and struggle with the global refugee regime (Routledge 2023). She currently is serving as the president of the Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the AAG Honors Committee.