ABSTRACT
The term ‘geopolitics’ is commonly used, by specialists and non-specialists alike, as a kind of short-hand for ‘politics on the global level’. It is a contention of this book that the popular usage of ‘geopolitics’ is unnecessarily narrow, since it fails to take full advantage of the rich analytical possibilities presented by the word’s two components. In the present work the term will be used to refer to the contribution of geography, here considered in all of its physical, historical, economic, strategic and social dimensions, to political decision-making on all levels, from the local to the supranational.
