Political Geography: Worldeconomy, Nationstate, and Locality 7/Ed

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the seventh edition; Tips for reading this book; Acknowledgements; Prologue: episodes in the life and times of a sub-discipline; 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 Intimate geopolitics.