Machine generated contents note: Welcome to political geography -- Ratzel's organism: promoting a new state -- Mackinder's heartland: saving an old empire and much more -- Haushofer's geopolitik: reviving a defeated state -- Hartshorne's functionalism: creating a moribund backwater -- What political geography did next -- How do we move beyond the limitations inherent in political geography's history? -- 1.A world-systems approach to political geography -- Introduction -- World-systems analysis -- Dimensions of a historical system -- Power -- Power and politics in the world-economy -- A political geography perspective on the world-economy -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 1 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 2.Geopolitics rampant -- Geopolitical codes and world orders -- Turmoil and stability: geopolitical codes, orders and transitions -- Contemporary geopolitical transition and new world order -- Critical geopolitics: representations of the War on Terror
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Note continued: Intimate geopolitics, feminist scholarship and the interrogation of security -- Geopolitical constructs: space, time, subjects and structures -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 2 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 3.Geography of imperialisms -- A world-systems interpretation of imperialism -- Formal imperialism: the creation of empires -- Informal imperialism: dominance without empire -- `Empire' and infrastructure in the twenty-first century -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 3 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 4.Territorial states -- The making of the world political map -- The nature of the states -- Territorial states under conditions of globalization -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 4 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 5.Nation, nationalism and citizenship -- The doctrine of nationalism -- Synthesis: the power of nationalism -- Nationalist uses of history: the `modern Janus'
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Note continued: Modernity and the politics of identity -- Identity politics and the institutions of the capitalist world-economy -- Place -- space tensions -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 8 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- Epilogue: a political geography framework for understanding our twenty-first-century world -- The key concepts of our political geography -- Scale as political product and political arena -- Networks and the capitalist world-economy -- The temporal-spatial context of political action -- Corporate globalization -- War as a systemic phenomenon -- Climate change: the `ultimate' place-space tension -- The final words: welcome to political geography.
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Note continued: Nationalism in practice -- State and nation since 1945 -- Renegotiating the nation? -- Citizenship: multiscalar politics -- Citizenship in the capitalist world-economy: movement and morals -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 5 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 6.Political geography of democracy -- Where in the world is liberal democracy? -- A world-systems interpretation of elections -- Liberal democracy in the core -- Elections beyond the core -- Social movements -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 6 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 7.Cities as localities -- Cities making hegemonies -- Modern territorial states tame cities -- Using cities to make political globalizations -- Citizens and global terrorism -- Challenges of the twenty-first century -- Chapter summary -- Key glossary terms from Chapter 7 -- Suggested reading -- Activities -- 8.Place and identity politics -- Theorizing political action in places
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The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach, and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the compatible, but different, research agendas of the co-authors. This edition explores the importance of states in corporate globalization, challenges to this globalization, and the increasingly influential role of China. It also discusses the dynamics of the capitalist world-economy and the constant tension between the global scale of economic processes and the territorialization of politics in the current context of geopolitical change. The chapters have been updated with new examples - new sections on art and war, intimate geopolitics and geopolitical constructs reflect the vibrancy and diversity of the academic study of the subject. Sections have been updated and added to the material of the previous edition to reflect the role of the so-called Islamic State in global geopolitics. The book offers a framework to help students make their own judgements of how we got where we are today, and what may or should be done about it. Political Geography remains a core text for students of political geography, geopolitics, international relations and political science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the social sciences. --