'Adds important pieces to the puzzle which makes up global politics.' - Millenium: Journal of International Studies'The essay by the editor is a ringing defense of geopolitics as a field of study, and the volume as a whole largely sustains his argument. For the beginner, the bibliographies attached to each essay will be a real treasure trove.' - Choice'This is a book which deserves a much larger popular audience interested in and capable of appreciating the important issues discussed and debated but obscured by the overly scholastic-academic jargon.' - Contemporary Review'This book is really worth reading, whether you were interested in territoriality, post-modern world, boundaries, geopolitics or ethnic conflict.' - Ethnic Conflict Research Digest'A collection of thoughtful and provocative essays ... provides many useful pointers to the changing relationship between boundaries, territory and state power.' - Progress in Human Geography

• Geopolitics renaissant - territory, sovereignty and the world political map, David Newman; de-territorialized threats and global dangers - geopolitics and risk society, Gearoid O Tuathail (Gerard Toal); international boundaries, geopolitics and the (post)modern territorial discourse - the functional fiction, Fabrizio Eva; on boundaries, territory and postmodernity - an international relations perspective, Mathias Albert; boundaries as social processes - territoriality in the world of flows, Anssi Paasi; beyond the borders - globalization, sovereignty and extra-teritoriality, Alan Hudson; a treaty of silicon for the treaty of Westphalia? - new territorial dimensions of modern statehood, Stanley D. Brunn; globalization or global apartheid? boundaries and knowledge in postmodern times, Simon Dalby; pseudo-states as harbingers of a new geopolitics - the example of the Trans-Dniester Moldovan Republic (TMR), Vladimir Kolossov and John O'Loughlin; regional identity and the sovereignty principle - explaining Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, Mira Sucharov.