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

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