| Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics Contributor(s): Agnew, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415310075 ISBN-13: 9780415310079 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: Agnew explores the elements of geographical imagination and how they have come together in different historical and modern epochs. The new edition examines the implications of recent world events such as September 11th, continued expansion of the EU and NATO, the near bankruptcy and failure of various states, and the re-ignition of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, on such a worldview. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 320.12 |
| LCCN: 2003002691 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.88" W x 9.66" (0.76 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite challenges to its domination, the way modern-world politics is conducted is structured by a set of understandings dating back to the rise of the European powers. Here, John Agnew systematically explores how Europeans in a position of global power imposed their ways and views on others through visualizing the world as a whole, defining world regions as modern or backward, seeing the nation statehood as the highest and best form of political organization, and viewing world politics as the outcome of the pursuit of primacy by competing states. Exploring the elements of geographical imagination and how they have come together in different historical and modern epochs, this updated new edition examines:
Providing a lucid analysis of how world politics has come to be practised in its present form, Agnew identifies and argues for an alternative, given the costs visited on the world in twentieth century by the practice of the modern geographical imagination. |