Geopolitics : re-visioning world politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Agnew, John A. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. |
| Description: | 150 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Tian ya jing pin xi lie cong shu |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3246342 |
| Summary: | <p>Geopoliticsidentifies 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:</p> 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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| Physical Description: | 150 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-143) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415140943 0415140951 |