Political geography / Mark Blacksell.

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

-- Table Of Contents: List of figures List of boxes Preface Placing political geography SECTION A Process and patterns 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 SECTION B Ideology and geopolitical visions Imagining natural divisions of global power Dreams into action: the making of national foreign policy Annexing the oceans SECTION C Beyond the state Globalisation and the theory of world systems International government and the modern state Conclusion: the shape of things to come References Index