Geopolitics

Geopolitics

Title: Geopolitics
Author: John Agnew
Release: 2004-03-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Geography, Books, Science & Nature, Earth Sciences, Nonfiction, Social Science
Size: 13402082
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.

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