Author Description

This book discusses the changing relations between geography and politics. It examines a range of political processes, institutions and conflicts and shows how space and place are centrally involved in their development. Topics covered include the formation of modern states and their contemporary restructuring; imperialism and post-colonialism; international relations and the aftermath of the Cold War; and social movements. In discussing these topics, the author develops and applies a new interpretative perspective for thinking about the relationship between politics and geography. He argues that politics is centrally concerned with issues of discourse, meaning, representation, strategy, authority and identity, and draws on examples of contemporary processes of political change to put these ideas into context.