ABSTRACT
The purpose of this book is to trace analytically the beginnings and development of the modern geopolitical imagination by exposing its component parts and showing how these came together under different material conditions and as a result of contestation to produce a succession of different geopolitical epochs. In this Conclusion I restate the premises underlying the book, address a number of possible criticisms that might be directed at it, and then lay out some ideas for an alternative way of considering world political geography.
