ABSTRACT
The approach to global space as being totally geopolitical is obviously one that has animated much of what have gone for theories of world politics down the years. Space is the more generic term because of its obvious connotation of elemental necessity associated with its usage in physics. The richer conception of space as entailing more than territory leads some writers to see politics as not entirely just contained territorially by states or networked across space but as actively involving the making of places. The first example of rethinking space in International Relations (IR) concerns what the author have called the three ages of geopolitics. A second example of using space to rethink IR considers one of the central concepts of the field: sovereignty. The third example of using space to rethink IR involves the geography of how ideas about world politics originate in certain places and then circulate and are read worldwide.
