Blacksell, Mark, 1942-

Political geography / Mark Blacksell. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. - xii, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary human geography series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-230) and index.

Placing political geography -- Human territoriality, maps, and the division of space -- The idea of the state -- Making states work: the variety of local state systems -- The politics of difference -- Civil society, pressure groups, and political parties -- Electoral geographies -- Imagining natural divisions of global power -- Dreams into action: the making of national foreign policy -- Annexing the oceans -- Globalisation and the theory of world systems -- International government and the modern state -- Conclusion: the shape of things to come.

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Political geography.

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