Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Changing World Political Map

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order. These essays are a selection of the papers originally presented at the International Geographical Union conference on Geopolitics and Globalization in a Post-Modern World, held in Israel in 1998. The first section focuses on the wider regional and geopolitical characteristics of global reordering, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and South Asia. The second section discusses the territorial reordering which is taking place at the level of the state as boundaries are redemarcated in line with ethno-territoral demands; as borders are transversed by the movement of peoples, information and finance; and as the lines of territorial demarcation are perceived not only in terms of their fixed characteristics but as part of a process through whichregional and ethnic identities continue to be formed and reformed. Each section ends with articles which focus on literature on geopolitics and boundaries.

Jason M. Ackleson is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science Frederick W. Boal is Professor Emeritus of Human Geography at the Queen's University of Belfast. Stanley D. Brunn is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Fabrizio Eva is contract professor at the Institute of Human Geography, State University of Milan. Richard Grant is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Nurit Kliot is Professor of Geography at Haifa University David B. Knight is Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of human geography (especially political and cultural geography) at the University of Amsterdam Julian V. Minghi is Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina David Newman is Professor of Political Geography and Chairperson of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. John O'Loughlin is Director of the 'Globalisation and Democracy' graduate training program, funded by the National Science Foundation, in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Victor Prescott is Professor Emeritus in Geography at the University of Melbourne. Maano Ramutsindela teaches geography at the University of the North in South Africa Dennis Rumley is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Western Australia Gearoid O Tuathail (Gerard Toal) is Associate Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech.