Bringing together leading researchers associated with the different forms of critical geopolitics, this volume produces an overview of its achievements, limitations, and areas of new and potential future development. The Companion is designed to serve as a key resource for an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners interested in the spatiality of politics.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword: Arguing about Geopolitics by Gerard Toal/Gearóid Ó Tuathail
• Introduction: Geopolitics and its Critics - Klaus Dodds; Merje Kuus; Joanne Sharp
• Part I: Foundations
• 1 The Origins of Critical Geopolitics - John Agnew
• 2 Realism and Geopolitics - Simon Dalby
• 3 Text, Discourse, Affect and Things - Martin Müller
• 4 Geopolitics and Visual Culture - Rachel Hughes
• 5 Heteronormativity - Linda Peake
• 6 Sovereignty - Fiona McConnell
• 7 Radical Geopolitics - Julien Mercille
• 8 Neoliberalism - Simon Springer
• 9 Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions - James D. Sidaway; Virginie Mamadouh; Marcus Power
• 10 Violence and Peace - Nick Megoran
• Part II: Sites
• 11 Borders - Anssi Paasi
• 12 The State - Sami Moisio
• 13 Militarization - Matthew Farish
• 14 Media - Paul C. Adams
• 15 Resources - Philippe Le Billon
• 16 Environment - Shannon O'Lear
• 17 The Global South - Chih Yuan Woon
• 18 Intimacy and the Everyday - Deborah Cowen; Brett Story
• 19 Spaces of Terror - Ulrich Oslender
• Part III: Agents
• 20 Non-Governmental Organisations - Alex Jeffrey
• 21 International Organizations - Veit Bachmann
• 22 Indigenous Geopolitics - Chris Gibson
• 23 Journalists - Alasdair Pinkerton
• 24 Artists - Alan Ingram
• 25 Evangelicals - Jason Dittmer
• 26 Intellectuals of Statecraft - Mathew Coleman
• 27 Women - Jennifer L. Fluri
• 28 Activists - Kye Askins