ABSTRACT
Many political geographers, who in recent years have felt a need to re-establish the reputation of their discipline after the damage which it has suffered through confusion with an aberrant form of geopolitics, have attempted to substitute a more cautious, empirical approach to specific territorial problems of political organization for the formulation of vast, often untested generalizations characteristic of an earlier period. This reorientation, which preceded that currently in progress throughout other branches of human geography, has taken the form of a focusing of attention upon case studies rather than upon general principles about states and their inter-relationships.
