Political Geography

This textbook has been revised to include substantive material on the ability of political geography to analyze and inform the political issues of the day. Additional sections cover the nature of power, the practical geopolitics of politicians in terms of general geopolitical world order and specific geopolitical codes. The major organizational departure from the first edition is the division of the original chapter on territory, state and nation into two sections. The first examines traditional spatial structure as a discussion of the world political map and theoretical material has been expanded in a discussion of the nature of the territorial states. The new section on the ideological heritage of nationalism compares theories of nationalism to alternative arguments for nationalism as resistance. In the discussion of electoral geography there are two new sections discussing elections in core and periphery and the final chapter includes a construction of the theory of politics in localities that has emerged in recent years.