Conceptualising and mapping the structure of the world system's city system
of the world-system. The AA. present a map of the current world city system based on their network analysis of recent air travel among many of the world's great cities.
Cultural identity ; Independence ; National territory ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Sovereignty ; State ; View of the world
Two ideals have dominated world politics for two hundred years. in one, called liberal, there are no real differences among peoples (ex. the United States). The opposite ideal is called nationalist or reactionary (Iran is an extreme case
). The number of states in the world has more than doubled since the end of World War II. The forces of separation seem on the rise, those of union of multicultural nations, on the decline.
Third World cities: sustainable urban development, 1
Democracy ; Living standard ; Sustainable development ; Third World ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban environment ; Urban society ; Urbanization
Development ; Food ; Population ; Population growth ; Stable population ; World
, the absolute world population growth is still around 90 millions, the highest growth was achieved in the 1960's. Relative yearly rate increase was more than 2,1%. It decreased to 1,6% during the last twenty years. The size of world population will probably
Agricultural practice ; Agriculture ; Cultural studies ; Development ; Forestry ; Geopolitics ; History of sciences ; Industrialization ; Irrigation ; Muslim World ; Political geography ; Settlement ; Tradition ; Urban development ; Urbanization
Irrigation ; Methodology ; Water ; Water management ; Water resources ; World
Irrigation plays a major role in improving agricultural production to cater to the needs of increasing world population. It is to be noted that in countries with advanced technologies, the water use per hectare is about half that of the less
Africa ; Core-periphery ; Epistemology ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Post-modernism ; Regional geography ; Social sciences ; World
The AA. deal with geography in search of a trandisciplinary framework and world-system analysis, and of a heuristic theory transcending the dualism of the idiographic and the nomothetic. Then endogenous and exogenous causes of the collapse of Africa
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold: cores, peripheries and peripheral nationalism at the core and periphery of the world economy
Argentina ; Core-periphery ; Great Britain ; Historical geography ; International economy ; Model ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; United Kingdom ; World economic order
Economic aid ; Europe ; Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; International aid ; International economy ; International relations ; Japan ; Legislation ; North-South relations ; United States of America ; World economic order
This article is designed to complement the container-metaphor argument and is divided in two sections, the first dealing with the operation of the state in the modern world-system and the second considering the popular concern for the demise
Diplomatic ties between countries during the Cold War, 1945-1991, are studied for the world, the USA, the Soviet Union, NATO and Warsaw Pact. With the collapse of the geopolitical arrangements of that era, embassy locations are also changing. - (DWG)