Empire as a Geopolitical Figure
Nöel Parker
This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern order with geopolitical effects. Noting imperial form's proclivity for expansion from critical reading historical sociology, argues that principal manifestation earlier geopolitics lay not in nation but empire. That turn has been driven by view world disorderly and open to ordering will empires (emanating, at time geopolitics' inception, Europe). One implication is are likely figure globe all times, particular after happened late twentieth century undermine nationalism national state. Empire indeed probable, even some an attractive form regime extending over disorder produced globalisation. Geopolitics articulated be found present future – EU, still more obviously USA exhibiting contemporary guise. does mean simply their own order, however; they least much purveyors other dynamics orders, which possess discrete The ends stipulations regarding variety forms may take: neither fully bounded nor centred; straightforwardly self-serving easily made legitimate.
Geopolitics