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Hidden Geopolitics
Governance in a Globalized World
2022
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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleGeopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy. Globalization, far from its antithesi...
$37.79 CAD
Globalization and Sovereignty
Beyond the Territorial Trap
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- Globalization
2017
EN
This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization. He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalization that are both overstated and misleading. Agnew contends that sovereignty-state control and authority over space is not...
$47.49 CAD
Geopolitics
Re-visioning World Politics
2004
EN
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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.
$119.42 CAD
Hegemony
The New Shape Of Global Power
2005
EN
Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent plant closings in t...
$43.39 CAD
2012
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Dating from its inception in the late nineteenth century, political geography as a field has been heavily influenced by global events of the time. Thus, rather than trying to impose a single “fashionable” theory, leading geographers John Agnew and Luca Muscarà consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical context as their framework for understanding the evolution of the discipline. The authors trace the development of key thinkers and theories during three distinct periods—1875–194...
$78.19 CAD
Mapping Populism
Taking Politics to the People
2019
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Brexit. Trump. LePen. The Five Star Movement. The recent success of populist movements and politicians is extraordinary, though the rise of populism is understandable in light of increasing political polarization, disappointing politicians, and exhausting election campaigns. With the future trajectory of democracy uncertain, two important questions remain unanswered. How did we get here? And why did we get here? Exploring how and why populism succeeded, John Agnew and Michael Shin consider...
$37.09 CAD
2009
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This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty year cycles of crisis and recovery. They demonstrate the extension of American's spher...
$62.29 CAD
Mastering Space
Hegemony, Territory and International Political Economy
2002
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For over two hundred years the domination of some countries by others has been intrinsic to international relations, with national economic and political strength viewed as essential to a nation's survival and global position. Mastering Space identifies the essential features of this "state-centredness" and suggests an optimistic alternative more in keeping with the contemporary post-Cold War climate. Drawing on recent geopolitical thinking, the authors claim that the dynamism of the inter...
$142.49 CAD
2014
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The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the globalization of the world economy. The book offers a consideration of local, regional, national and global economic development over the long historical term. The theory and practice of economic and political geography provide a basis for understanding the interactions within and among the developed and developing countries of the world. Illustrated in color throughout, this new edition ha...
$131.64 CAD
Place and Politics
The Geographical Mediation of State and Society
2014
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The first part of the book is concerned with developing the place perspective. Three dimensions of place are put forward: locale and sense of place describe the objective and subjective dimensions of local social arrangements within which political behaviour is realized; location refers to the impact of the ‘macro-order’, to the fact that a single place is one among many and that the social life of a place is embedded in theworkings of the state and the world eco...
$89.56 CAD
Finding the Real You
Meeting the Most Important Person in Your Life
2002
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Finding the Real You provides a practical program to identify the Real You and address the classical ups and downs of life. The problems are familiar but, the ideas are revolutionary and the entertaining presentation will engage readers throughout the book. You will encounter one of the main new themes of the psychological and biological sciences _ rhythms. We help readers identify their own basic rhythms, those of significant others, and most importantly how to increase their physical and...
$11.19 CAD
2013
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Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.For further information on this collection please email [email protected].
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