Geopolitics

Despite challenges to its domination, the way modern-world politics is conducted is structured by a set of understandings about the way the world works which date back to the rise of the European powers.
Geopolitics explores how today's world politics stems from Europeans rising to a position of global power and imposing their ways and views on others. They did this through visualising the world as a whole, defining world regions as modern or backward, seeing the nation statehood as the highest and best form of political organisation and viewing world politics as the outcome of the pursuit of primacy by competing states.
John 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 world view.
Geopolitics provides a lucid analysis of how world politics has come to be practised the way it has, identifying and arguing for an alternative, given the costs visited on the world in 20th century, by the practice of the modern geographical imagination.