John Agnew

TL;DR: The authors argue that making political science matter is too tightly referenced to the peculiarities of US political science to be of much interest to geographers interested in our own "relevance debate" and suggest that geographical debates about the means and ends of academic knowledge are more textured and advanced than those articulated in this book.

TL;DR: The role of territory and borders in the genesis of conflicts have come under increased scrutiny in international relations and political geography over the past ten years as discussed by the authors, and there is a rapprochement between scholars in both fields over the "way forward" beyond a number of the previously more stereotyped positions concerning the persisting relevance of terrain and borders to world politics.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors trace the history of Fascism in Italy and how its memory lived on after the demise of the regime most intimately connected to it and then turn to recent Italian politics and what the changed historical-geographical context of the times suggests about which elements, if any, of the original Fascism can be expected to re-emerge under the new regime.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that the key chapters devoted to rural development, industry and urbanization rely heavily upon an understanding of such issues and concepts as 'the world capitaHst economy', 'unequal exchange' and 'dependent capitahsm', which owe at least a passing reference to one (or all) of WaUerstein, Amin or Cardoso.