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Section editor: Colin Flint, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Advances in Feminist Geography Classical Geopolitics Revisited Critical Geopolitics Geographic Insights into Political Identity Geographic Perspectives on World-Systems Theory Geographical Perspectives on Development Studies Geographies of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and War Crimes The Geography of Diplomacy Geography and International Studies: The Foundations The Geography of Resource Wars The Geography of World Cities Intersecting Geographies of Institutions and Sovereignty Power and Space in Electronic Communications The Role of Geographic Education in International Studies The Spatial Analysis of War Using Geography to Rethink the State Colin Flint, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Political geographers are a diverse subgroup within the discipline of geography. They study topics as large-scale as global development (see Nelson), and as micro-scale and everyday as the definition of our individual identity and control of our bodies (see Gilbert). Political geography is now a vibrant body of research after emerging from post–World War II doldrums. Despite its connections to the topics studied by members of all of the specialty groups of the International Studies Association, it is often misrepresented and, therefore, underutilized. It is ... log in or subscribe to read full text