A Global World?

This textbook is the final volume of a five-volume series on human geography. It draws attention to the process of political fragmentation within and between states that is happening alongside the emergence of supranational institutions, transnational movements, and the growth of superstates, with a mixture of text and readings. It explores the kind of global politics we are witnessing through a number of issues such as the alleged emergence of a new world order, the impact of Islam as a global force, the rise of regions in an interdependent world, and the notion of the break-up of the nation state. The book is intended for first- and second-year undergraduate human geography students taking courses in political geography at higher education institutions. Together with the other books in the series, it has been planned to form part of a broad-based social science degree or modular studies.