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Download or read book Geopolitics written by John Agnew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geopolitics identifies and scrutinizes the central features of geopolitics from the sixteenth century to the present. The book focuses on five key concepts of the modern geopolitical imagination: * Visualising the world as a whole * The definition of geographical areas as 'advanced' or 'primitive' * The notion of the state being the highest form of political organization * The pursuit of primacy by competing states * The necessity for hierarchy.