An up-to-date handbook providing an overview of every country in the world. Maps and geographical details are given along with the historical and contemporary social, economic, religious and political issues that shape each country. Also provides economic and social indicators, such as GDP and life expectancy, and hundreds of useful web links.
Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, this title challenges the understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. It also examines the productive geographies of contestation.
Offers an introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in the field. This book offers an introductory chapter providing an overview of the developments in the field of political geography. It gives over 20 concept entries covering staples of the sub-discipline, such as nationalism, territoriality, anti-statism and gender.
This companion presents a substantial survey of the active and vibrant field of political geography. The volume comprises specially written essays by prominent scholars from around the world and covers a wide variety of crucial themes in contemporary critical political geography.
Traces the USA's attempts to balance national interest and global responsibility. This title provides a measure of America's true effect on world trade and security, locates sites of resistance and levels of antagonism, and considers the sustainability of its imperial role.
Tells the story of one of the world's greatest cultural heartlands - the Indian subcontinent. This book shows how geological movements moulded the land of this unique cradle and how they impact on it; from the early settlers, the great Mogul Empire and the British Raj, through the impact of railways, and the spread of representative democracy.
Offers an undergraduate resource on Political Geography. This title focuses on the social and cultural, while overviewing the discipline. It explains: politics, geography, and 'political' geography; state formation; welfare state to workfare state; democracy citizenship, law; electoral geography; and, identity and social movements.
Offers coverage of and commentary upon the principal events and challenges of world - political violence and terrorism, imperialism, ecological disaster, economic inequity, and exclusionary and fundamentalist attitudes towards nationalism and religion. This title is useful for students of political geography, geopolitics, and others.
An introduction to the theories of territoriality and the geographical outcomes of territorial control. The book takes account of all the substantial developments in the 1990s, exploring both macro- and micro-scale territoriality. Theory is supported by historical and contemporary examples.
Presents an analysis of the changing economic, political and social geography of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. This book covers: the origins and rise of the Russian state and the heritage of the Soviet period; and environmental background and present-day ecological problems.