...This chapter presents the long legal history of the contestations over liberal agency, consent, and the geopolitics of freedom that began with the celebrated case of Somerset v. Stewart (1772). The reading of Somerset establishes the procedural form of freedom...

... the contested geopolitics and ‘astrogeopolitics’ of satellites. It explores satellite regimes as means for national security states to intensely scrutinise the Earth’s surface. It analyses the increasingly weaponised means of directly launching lethal violence. Moreover, it addresses satellites systems...

...A century ago Ireland and Palestine were among the thorniest geopolitical issues. A combination of British imperialism and American pragmatism meant that both the “Jewish problem” and the “Irish question” remained unresolved despite rhetoric that would have indicated otherwise. In the decades...

... China Central Television CCTV Geopolitics China-Taiwan relations Central America and the Caribbean U.S.-China relations The United States has been and continues to be the dominant and unchallenged global power in Central America and the Caribbean. American suzerainty has not been seriously...

...The concluding chapter examines the U.S.-China relations from both economic and geopolitical perspectives in Latin America and Caribbean, and also in a broader context, namely, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. China, as the rising power in Latin America...

...This concluding chapter argues that the geopolitics of freedom and slavery helped consolidate the profoundly American understanding of personal liberty as freedom of movement—an understanding that persists to this day. Black and white abolitionists had long couched their protests against punitive...

... of counterterrorism and genre development in action-thrillers, the historical and shifting production of racial formations through the overlapping systems of cinema and surveillance, the positioning of media consumers within a digital surveillance economy, and the use of cinematic technique to structure geopolitical...