ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a technique known as transaction flow analysis and subsequently applied to the network of telecommunications in East Africa. It illustrates the potential contribution of a communications approach to the examination of the spatial aspects of territorial integration and to suggest an addition to the relatively bare quantitative tool kit of political geography. The chapter explores developments, and particularly one of the analytical techniques they have generated, with the intention of stimulating greater interaction between political geography and political science. The use of transaction flow analysis in the study of territorial integration must be cone sidered within the broader context of what might be called a behavioral theory of communications. Most isolated within the framework of interterritorial communications has been Uganda—the "reluctant partner. Transactions between areas can be viewed as indicators of the flow and concentration of information within a network of human relations in space, and consequently of mutual awareness and at least potentially integrative behavior.
