Product Description: We live in a rapidly changing world in which politics is becoming both more and less predictable at the same time: this makes political geography a particularly exciting topic to study. To make sense of the continuities and disruptions within this political world requires a strongly focused yet flexible text...read more

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have formed a network. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network. Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 100 leading global service firms across 315 cities, this book assesses cities in terms of their overall network connectivity, their connectivity by service sector, and their connectivity by world region. Peter Taylor's unique and illuminating book provides the first comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the world city network as the 'skeleton' upon which contemporary globalization has been built. His analyses challenge the traditional view of the world as a 'mosaic map' of political boundaries. Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book provides a much needed mapping of the connecting relationships between world cities, and will be an enlightening book for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and planning.

This textbook provides students with a series of challenging and revealing perspectives on the trends, trajectories and ideas of the 1990s. Twenty geographers from all over the world have been especially commissioned to address the questions of how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. After an editorial introduction on the nature of global and local change, the book is divided into five parts, concerned with geoeconomic change, geopolitical change, geosocial change, geocultural change, and geoenvironmental change. The editors have provided contextual introductions to each part and a conclusion stressing the links between these aspects of change. Among the issues the authors consider are the collapse of socialism, the reconfiguration of North Atlantic capitalism, the hypermobility of capital, the rise of ferocious nationalisms, global environmental change, the power of international media, the social movements associated with environmentalism and feminism, and the new fervour of old religions. Taken as a whole, this book provides the student with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local. R.J. Johston is the editor of "The Dictionary of Human Geography" and Peter J. Taylor is the author of "Political Geography".

Product Description: A novel and stimulating account regarding the past, present and future elements of the world's geopolitical system, especially the reality of the new world order of the 21st century. Each chapter is an original contribution from prominent Anglo-American workers in political geography...read more

Product Description: Since the first publication of World Government in 1990, the world political stage has changed beyond all possible expectations. The end of the Cold War has seen the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism. The Middle East has seen both the Gulf War and movements toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians...read more

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Product Description: Political geography has been one of the major growth areas within geography in recent years. Presenting a great deal of new research findings, new thinking and comprehensive overviews of key aspects of the subject, the contributors to this volume review past progress and current trends and discuss the areas where political geographers should undertake future research...read more

Product Description: Book by Taylor, Peter J.