A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style.- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield UniversityThis is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on the social and cultural while systematically overviewing the entire discipline, Joe Painter and Alex Jeffrey explain: O Politics, geography, and political geography: power, resources, institutions, and the history of the field O State formation: classical views alongside recent work on governance and governmentality O Welfare to workfare state: the restructuring of present state strategies O Democracy, citizenship and law: different models of democracy in European and global contexts O Identity and social movements: the relation between identity and political action O Nationalism and regionalism: ethnicity, national identity and otherness O Imperialism and post-colonialism: from world systems theory to post-structuralist accounts O Geopolitics: the political, economic, and strategic significance of geography. Comprehensive, accessible and illustrated with real world examples, Political Geography provides undergraduates with a thorough understanding of the relationship between geography and politics.