Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics

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Routledge, Mar 1, 2004 - Science - 168 pages

Geopolitics identifies and scrutinizes the central features of geopolitics from the sixteenth century to the present. The book focuses on five key concepts of the modern geopolitical imagination:
* Visualising the world as a whole
* The definition of geographical areas as 'advanced' or 'primitive'
* The notion of the state being the highest form of political organization
* The pursuit of primacy by competing states
* The necessity for hierarchy.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Visualizing global space
15
Chapter 3 Turning time into space
34
Chapter 4 A world of territorial states
51
Chapter 5 Pursuing primacy
66
Chapter 6 The three ages of geopolitics
85
Chapter 7 A new age of global geopolitics?
114
Chapter 8 Conclusion
127
Glossary
135
Bibliography
138
Index
147
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About the author (2004)

John Agnew is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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