Preface to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition vii Preface xi Symbols Used xiii 1. The Importance of Islands 3 2. Area and Number of Speicies 8 3. Further Explanations of the Area-Diversity Pattern 19 4. The Strategy of Colonization 68 5. Invasibility and the Variable Niche 94 6. Stepping Stones and Biotic Exchange 123 7. Evolutionary Changes Following Colonization 145 8. Prospect 181 Glossary 185 References 193 Index 201

The Theory of Island Biogeography

Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Introduction 1 Freedom's Just Another Word  2 The Construction of Consent 3 The Neoliberal State 4 Uneven Geographical Developments 5 Neoliberalism with 'Chinese Characteristics' 6 Neoliberalism on Trial 7 Freedom's Prospect Notes Bibliography Index

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes whether states view each other as enemies, rivals or friends as a fundamental determinant. Wendt characterises these roles as 'cultures of anarchy', described as Hobbesian, Lockean and Kantian respectively. These cultures are shared ideas which help shape state interests and capabilities, and generate tendencies in the international system. The book describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.

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Social Theory of International Politics

Spatializing International Relations: Analysing Activism on the Internet. By Jayne Rodgers. New York: Routledge, 2003. 184 pp., $80.00 (ISBN: 0-415-25592-9).

Theories of international relations are overwhelmingly based on territorialized accounts of geographical space. Even if individual states are not viewed as self-sufficient actors, they are still seen as territorial entities embedded in a hierarchy of nested territorial spaces, with power moving up and down the hierarchy from suprastate entities (such as alliances and customs unions) to local administrative units (such as municipalities and regions). What has generally been lacking is theoretical attention to alternative ways of spatializing power—beyond the territorial field-of-forces model that has long dominated the field. Various such alternatives exist—such as spatial network, ensemble-of-worlds, and world society models (see, for example, Agnew 2002). Moreover, the need for alternative models has become all the more urgent with the increased perception of the importance of economic, political, and cultural transactions that take place through space-spanning networks that cross state boundaries and that can no longer be easily restricted by states.

Spatializing International Relations by Jayne Rodgers reviews some of the new ways in which scholars from a range of disciplines (predominantly geography, anthropology, and feminist political theory) have tried to “spatialize” our understanding of international relations. It does so in two ways. First, two chapters describe, respectively, the spatial theories of international relations and analogous theories drawn from feminist political theory. Second, Rodgers undertakes a sustained empirical examination of the politics of Internet political activism across five chapters, using the spatial theory of the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre as a rough-and-ready theoretical template. Rodgers's key contention is that “the Internet does not fit neatly … into …

Looking into Cyberspace

Reviews: Consuming Places, Restructuring Processes in Italy, Urban Policy Evaluation: Challenge and Change, Trends in Development Plan-Making in European Planning Systems, Social Limits to Growth, Restructuring for Innovation: The Remaking of the US Semiconductor Industry, China in the 1990s, Community and the Northwestern Logger: Continuities and Changes in the Era of the Spotted Owl, Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa:

Nelson Moe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xv and 349 pp., plates, notes, biblio., and index. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 0-520-22652-6). Giovanni Verga, often described as the greatest...

The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question

Much of what is today thought of as economic globalization, from complex multisite supply chains in manufacturing to the opening of industrial world markets to products from erstwhile underdevelope...

John Agnew

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Looking into Cyberspace

The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question

What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It By Rorden Wilkinson Cambridge: Polity, 2014.

Reading John Agnew and Luca Muscarà's Making Political Geography