Geopolitics

Geopolitics identifies 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:

• 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.