ABSTRACT
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.
