Hidden Geopolitics

Governance in a Globalized World

John Agnew (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5863-0 (ISBN)

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Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy. Globalization, far from its antithesis, is tightly wound up in the assumptions and practices of geopolitics, relating to the scope of regulatory authority, state sponsorship, and the political power of businesses to operate worldwide. Agnew shows how this “hidden” geopolitics and globalization have been vitally connected. He focuses on three moments: the origins of contemporary globalization in the policies pursued by successive US governments and allies after 1945 and its continued relevance even as the US role in the world changes; the close connection between geopolitical history and status of different countries and their relative capacities to exploit the possibilities and limit the costs of globalization; and new regulatory and standard-setting agencies which emerged under the sponsorship of major geopolitical powers but have grown in power and authority as the dominant states have become limited in their ability to manage the explosion of transnational transactions on their own.

Agnew argues that it is time to move on from the narrow inter-imperial cast of geopolitics and the foolish policy advice it produces. The old perspective on geopolitics has taken on new life with the rise of national-populist movements in Europe and the United States and the reinvigoration of territorial-authoritarian regimes in Russia and China. Notwithstanding this trend, we must see the contemporary world through the lens of these complex, “hidden” geopolitical underpinnings that Agnew seeks to expose.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. A native of Cumbria in England, he has taught at a number of US, Canadian, and European universities. A Fellow of the British Academy, in 2019 he received the Vautrin Lud Prize, the highest academic award for the field of geography. As well as being the founding editor of Territory, Politics, Governance, he is on numerous editorial boards including the Review of International Political Economy, International Political Sociology, and the European Journal of International Relations. For 2008-9 he was President of the American Association of Geographers and he is currently President of the Regional Studies Association. He is the author of numerous books including Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (2005), Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (2017), and Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (with M. Shin 2019).

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What is Geopolitics?

Hidden Geopolitics is Not New

Globalizing Governance

The Logic of the Book

Part I: Hidden Geopolitics

Chapter 1: Geopolitics in a Globalized World

Geopolitics versus Globalization

Geopolitics of Globalization

Geopolitics of Development

Geopolitics of Regulation

Consequences for Hidden Geopolitics

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Beyond Territorial Geopolitics

The United States from the Perspective of Land- versus Sea- Powers

Hegemony versus Empire

Globalization and the Current Global Geopolitical Order

US Hegemony and the Roots of Globalization

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Making the Strange Familiar

Geographical Analogy and Familiarization

Why Balkan Analogies?

The Two Examples: Macedonian Syndrome and Balkanization

Conclusion

Part II: Geopolitics of Globalization

Chapter 4: The Asymmetric Border: The US Place in the World and the Refugee Panic of 2018

The US Place in the World and the Asymmetric Border

The US Refugee Panic of 2018

The US Immigration “Debate”

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Putting China in the World

“Familiar” Analogies and the Limited Geographic Origins of Thinking about World Politics

The Making and the Travels of Dominant Perspectives on World Politics

China’s Hidden Geopolitics

Chinese Narratives on World Politics

The Politics of the Narratives about World Politics

Conclusion

Part III: Geopolitics of Development

Chapter 6: Territorial Politics after the Financial Crisis

The Geography of the 2007-8 Financial Crisis

Spatial Uncertainties of Contemporary Governance

World Cities versus State Territories

Devolution to Local and Regional Governments

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Anti-Federalist Federalism

Dualism versus Polyphony in Federal Governance

Donald Trump and National-Populism

The Retreat of the Federal Government since the 1980s

The Spatial Paradox of Trump’s “Populism” and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Conclusion

Part IV: Geopolitics of Global Regulation

Chapter 8: Global Regulation

The Rise of Credit-Rating Agencies in Rating Sovereign Debt

How Are Ratings Done?

Private Authority and State Sovereignty

Geopolitical Consequences

Conclusion

Chapter 9: Managing the Eurozone Crisis

Popular Accounts of the Eurozone Crisis

Analyzing the Eurozone Crisis

What is Ordnungspolitik?

The Limits of Ordnungspolitik in Variegated Capitalism

The Territorial Mismatch Thesis and the Eurozone Crisis

Conclusion

Part V: Hidden No More?

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 219 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5381-5863-9 / 1538158639
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-5863-0 / 9781538158630
Zustand	Neuware