Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text provides a balanced analysis of geopolitics and geoeconomics and their interrelationship. Its presentation combines a theoretical approach with both historical and contemporary perspectives in order to comprehensively depict the evolution of the global political economy. The author critically examines the "interdependent" relations among industrialized countries as well as the "dependent" relations between industrialized and less developed countries. An important theme in all of the geoeconomic chapters is the relationship between internal and external forces in shaping a nation state's development or under-development and the subsequent impact on national interests, policies, power and international relations. The text offers important sections on political and economic regionalism, such as the European Union and North American Free Trade Association. Global environmental crisis and the international community's attempt to manage them is also covered. Throughout, the text analyzes the role of perceptions and misperceptions in shaping conflicts, interests, policies and power.