Abstract
Political Geography begins as all good geographies should, by situating what will follow temporally as well as spatially. "It is possible," Glassner begins, " . .. that many years from now historians will look back and judge that the twenty-first century . . . began during the period in which we are now living, roughly from the mid1980s to the mid-1990s." And even ifthis does not prove true, it is most certainly the case that the current period has witnessed substantial re-orientation of the relations between humans and political contexts of space. The spatial scale of human political geographies, it could be argued, is beginning to change. With the increasing realization that human rights, environmental problems, and migrants and refugees, among other phenomena, exist with little regard to borders, states cease to be the pre-eminent units of analysis. The proliferation of transnational economies and international organizations, along with smaller-scale phenomena such as ethnic separatist movements within states lead to further suspicion that the sovereign state model is decreasingly germane. Thus, this text takes on critical issues at a critical time.
Recommended Citation
Goodwin-White, Jamie M.
(1996)
"Political Geography (2nd edition) by Martin Ira Glassner,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 38:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol38/iss2/8