ABSTRACT
This chapter is an initial excursion that serves to highlight the false dichotomy of war and peace. The use of vignettes is aimed at provoking further inquiry rather than producing definitive results. The chapter begins with a discussion of how war is commonly represented as a progressive or developmental process. It introduces the concept of geopolitical landscape to show how social relations and geographic spaces are continually formed and reformed across spatial-temporal moments commonly defined as war and peace. The establishment of military bases across Europe meant that the end of World War II required a militarization of the world to maintain a state of peace. The chapter builds upon the idea of geopolitical landscapes to illustrate the host of processes that are combined to form a continual dynamic of social contestation that makes the presence of militarized geopolitical landscapes permanent. The dynamic of war and peace is a continual process of the restructuring of space.
