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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- 1 Beyond "Race and Culture": American Underclasses in the Late Twentieth Century -- 2 Society at Risk in a Society of Organizations -- 3 Social Security and the Construction of an Underclass in the United States -- 4 Poverty and Public Policy in the 1990s -- 5 Inside/Outside: The Dialectics of Homelessness -- 6 Deviance and Human Nature -- 7 Mothers at Risk: The War on Poor Women and Children -- 8 Successful Early Interventions for Children at High Risk for Failure in School -- 9 Native Americans and the Demographic Legacy of Contact -- 10 Sites of Danger and Risk: African Americans Return to the Rural South -- About the Book and Editors -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- PART 1 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY: RECURRING ISSUES, NEW PERSPECTIVES -- 1 Introduction: Political Geography for the Next Millennium -- 2 Changing Times, Changing Scales: World Politics and Political Geography Since 1890 -- 3 Geopolitics in the New World Era: A New Perspective on a Old Discipline -- 4 International Boundaries: Lines in the Sand (and the Sea) -- 5 The Power and Politics of Maps -- 6 Electoral Geography and Gerrymandering: Space and Politics -- PART 2 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE AND RESOURCES -- 7 Population, Politics, and Geography: A Global Perspective -- 8 International Migration: One Step Forward, Two Steps -- 9 Exploiting, Conserving, and Preserving Natural Resources -- 10 Geo-Analysis for the Next Century: New Data and Tools for Sustainable Development -- PART 3 INTERNATIONAL PROCESSES OF GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE -- 11 People Together, Yet Apart: Rethinking Territory, Sovereignty, and Identities -- 12 International Law and the Sovereign State System: Challenges to the Status Quo -- 13 Global Ecopolitics -- 14 Nongovernmental Organizations on the Geopolitical -- 15 Global Hegemony Versus National Economy: The United States in the New World Economy -- 16 Geopolitical Information and Communications in the Twenty-First Century -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index

Using an integrative approach to international relations, the second edition of Reordering the World returns the ?geo? to geopolitical analysis of current global issues. The contributors focus on key emerging world issues, such as spatial data technology, IGOs/NGOs, gender and world politics, boundary disputes, refugee flows, ecological degradation, and UN intervention in civil wars. They also assess the redefinition of international relations by instantaneous, worldwide financial and telecommunication linkages and explore the struggles of new multinational and nongovernmental organizations to define their roles. Using current real-world examples, this group of eminent geographers challenges the reader to rethink international relations and reorder the world political map.

Based on planning documents for population spatial planning for individual Eastern European countries, it seems that the planners of the Eastern bloc countries have finally rejected the idea that they can mold & order the migration & settlement patterns of the population & segments of the population. The measures for controlling the population's migration & the direction of migration have been proven ineffective (population-influencing measures). In the USSR, this inability to control the social geographic mobility has given way to population-responsive measures. Soviet manpower & labor, city & economic planners have had to adjust to the realities of 10 million people changing their residences annually as they saw fit. Although various government efforts have been directed at Siberian settlement, out-migration exceeds planned migration in this area. Financial & housing incentive measures may need to be employed to motivate people to accept planned migrations, however, this would be in ideological conflict with the Marxist philosophy. Spatial social engineering has eluded the Eastern European countries. 2 Tables. A. Rothman.