Reflection on Criticisms of Critical Geopolitics

The book Critical Geopolitics: Politics of Writing Global Space was first published twenty-five years ago. In this article, I briefly discuss the geopolitical and intellectual sources inspiration for development Geopolitics as a distinctive approach within Anglo-American political geography. doing so, distinguish it from other concurrent critical approached to International Relations world-system English-speaking Geography at time. Thereafter consider four lines critique Geopolitics. is argument that too political. A subsidiary considers its relationship violence. second neglects embodiment everyday life that, consequently, Feminist needed necessary corrective. third claim textual operates with flawed conception discourse, one practice. fourth has an undeveloped materiality more-than-human agency. these criticisms, make continuity concern latent catastrophism in danger nuclear war mid-nineteen eighties climate emergency today.