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THE APPLICATION OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY TO LEGITIMIZE IMPERIALISTIC WORLD POWER POLICY IN THE SECOND REICH, AND GEOPOLITICS AS A PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION FOR THE POLICY OF LEBENSRAUM DURING THE THIRD REICH HAS LED TO A GENERAL NEGLECT OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY STUDY IN GERMANY SINCE. THERE IS NOW THE QUESTION OF THE RELATION OF PRESENT GEOGRAPHY TO THIS PAST, OR HOW THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF TODAY HAS BEEN INFLUENCED BY ITS HISTORICAL FUNCTION. AFTER A REVIEW OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, A FEW NEW FRAMEWORKS WHICH INDICATE THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THE PAST ARE STUDIED.

Навчальний посібник висвітлює основні теми нормативного курсу «Політична географія». Детально характеризуються форми правління та адміністративно-територіального поділу держав, морфологічні особливості державної території, функції державних кордонів, принципи періодизації розвитку політичної карти світу, класифікацій і типологій країн тощо. Зміст посібника відбиває результати тривалої викладацької і дослідницької роботи автора. Кожна тема включає навчальний матеріал, який доповнюється визначеннями основних термінів, цікавими фактами і грунтовними висновками. Додатки містять матеріали для організації самостійного вивчення політичної карти світу, необхідну інформацію для підготовки до практичних робіт і семінарських занять тощо. Посібник розрахований на студентів природничо-географічних факультетів, вчителів географії та економіки, учнів профільних класів ліцеїв і гімназій та широке коло читачів, які цікавляться особливостями територіальної організації життя суспільства та іншими аспектами сучасної політичної географії. ; The manual covers basic topics of the normative course "Political Geography". Forms of government and administrative-territorial division of the state, morphological features of state territory, functions of the state borders, principles of periodization of the political map of the world development, classifications and typologies of countries are characterised in detail. The contents of the manual reflects the results of a long teaching and researching work of the author. Each topic includes educational material that is complemented by definitions of key terms, interesting facts and thorough findings. Applications include materials for independent study of the map, the necessary information to prepare for practical work and seminars etc. The manual is designed for students of natural sciences and geography faculties, geography and economics teachers, students of specialized classes in lyceums and gymnasiums and a wide range of readers interested in the features of the territorial organization of social life and other aspects of modern political geography.

First published 1997, this volume examines the way in which political corruption remains neglected as a matter of scholarly enquiry and research. There is still a powerful and traditional taboo which is quite out of the step with the topic's real world significance and the increasing attention it receives from serious sections of the media. The book aims by systematic exposition and case study to break down that taboo and to demonstrate the topic's importance within a framework provided by the discipline of geography. The novelty of the book is then that it considers a formerly unconsidered factor - corruption - as part of the world's geography, as both part of the geographical context in which human activity takes place and as a spatially variable condition explicable at least in part in terms of other geographies. The conclusion is that much geographical scholarship ignores this factor at the risk of its credibility.

STUDIES IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY MAY BE APPROACHED FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW AND MAY FOCUS ON A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS. THE GREATEST QUESTION IS THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD INTO SOVEREIGN STATES AND NON-INDEPENDENT TERRITORIES, INCLUDING THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRATION OF CERTAIN STATES IN A WAY WHICH IS ABOVE ALL ECONOMIC. STATES ARE BOUNDED BY BORDERS, ON EITHER SIDE OF WHICH BOTH MARITIME AND CONTINENTAL FRONTIER ZONES SHOULD BE ANALYSED. MOST STATES, EXCEPT THE SMALLEST OF THEM, ARE SUBDIVIDED INTO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHICH VARIES ACCORDING TO WHETHER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE IS A FEDERAL OR A CENTRALIZED ONE. IT IS AT THIS LEVEL THAT THE QUESTION OF REGIONALIZATION OR REGIONAL POLICY ARISES. THE FINAL ELEMENT OF THIS ANALYSIS IS THE EXAMINATION OF THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL OPINIONS THROUGH ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY. THE ANALYSIS WHICH FOLLOWS DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE COMPLETE, AND MOST OF MY SUGGESTIONS ARE THE FRUIT OF A VARIETY OF STUDIES STRETCHING OVER 35 YEARS

Entirely revised and updated, this reviews the history of the rise and fall of centres of power and draws on a wide range of case studies to illustrate current trends and offers discussion of future developments in a useful, compact form.