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A major difference between developed & less developed countries (LDCs) is that the former have more educated populations. The role of the U in the development of human resources since the Middle Ages is briefly reviewed. The U makes important contributions to the quality of Ur life as a source of personnel in engineering, medicine, public health, & other fields. LDCs often lack both sufficient U facilities & access to the Us of more developed countries. The limited research so far published in this area should be greatly extended. W. H. Stoddard

This article outlines the many various relationships linking the political organization of space and individual freedom. The expansion of the latter in recent times compli cates considerably the former while it seems to put pressure on the old-standing forms of spatial partitioning.

La mer a toujours été le meilleur moyen de structurer l'économie internationale. Dans les régions voisines du littoral se sont concentrées les activités industrielles et commerciales, les grandes villes qui ont marqué l'histoire. Après 1945, la circulation maritime a connu une forte croissance et, comme le monde lui-même, elle s'est diversifiée. Aux pratiques traditionnelles de la mer, transport et pêche, se sont ajoutés de nouveaux usages comme l'exploitation des ressources minérales ou la stratégie militaire sous-marine. La connaissance de la mer connaît un regain d'intérêt justifié. Néanmoins, les grandes cités portuaires sont en crise. Les innovations technologiques tendent à séparer spatialement les communautés urbaines et la production industrielle ; même la circulation des marchandises et des hommes prend un autre cours. Cependant nous sommes entrés dans "l'ère transactionnelle" où triomphe l'art de la

Jean Gottman presents the general theme of this special issue of the International Review of Political Science. He surveys the other six articles, all of which are concerned with the general theme of relationships between spatial partitioning and political thought, although they deal with different subjects and take different approaches. Two aspects of the relationships in question are examined in this issue of the Review, which sets the views of geographers alongside those of political scientists. In the first place, spatial partitions are considered as boundaries; while the latter have become more flexible in recent years, they continue to be a source of problems and tensions. The second aspect studied is electoral geography and its methodology. By way of conclusion, the article raises the issue of the dynamic nature of partitions and society, in contrast to the geographical stability of electoral patterns. Must we conclude that political ideas are rooted in geographic space, or that the basis of geographical stability is an inheritance from earlier habits of thought?