Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality - Softcover

Flint, Colin; Taylor, Peter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 027373590X ISBN 13: 9780273735908

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

We live in a rapidly changing world in which politics is becoming both more and less predictable at the same time: this makes political geography a particularly exciting topic to study.

To make sense of the continuities and disruptions within this political world requires a strongly focused yet flexible text.  This new (sixth) edition of Peter Taylor’s Political Geography proves itself fit for the task of coping with a frequently and rapidly changing geo-political landscape. Co-authored again with Colin Flint, it retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions, based upon its world-systems approach. 

Reflecting the backdrop of the current global climate, this is the Empire, globalization and climate change edition in which global political change is being driven by three related processes: the role of cities in economic and political networks; the problems facing territorially based notions of democratic politics and citizenship, and the ongoing spectre of war.

This sixth edition remains a core text for students of political geography, geopolitics, international relations and political science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the social sciences.

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Review:

'Political Geography covers and comments on principal events and challenges to today's world, including political violance and terrorism, ecological disaster, imperialism, economic inequity and exclusionary and fundamentalist attitudes towards nationalism and religion.'

- Times Higher Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 027373590X
• ISBN 13: 9780273735908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 352