Political geography

Author: Wang Enyong
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Political geography combines geographical space with related disciplines to explain the spatial political patterns between and within countries, as well as the mutual relationships between these patterns and their influencing factors. This book introduces the basic theories and fundamental knowledge of political geography from a developmental and comprehensive perspective, linking them with the world situation. Its content includes the subject, nature, and historical development of political geography, the origin and development of the state, ethnicity and nationalism, the spatial characteristics of the state, political systems, regional divisions, party geography, and electoral geography, comprehensive national strength, political geography theories of the state, imperialism and colonialism, schools of geopolitical thought, changes in the world political landscape since the 20th century, and future prospects. It provides theoretical, knowledge-based, and methodological insights for understanding the political geographical characteristics of states and the world geopolitical landscape. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students in geography and political science disciplines at universities.