Routledge Geopolitics Series
About the Book Series
Geopolitics is a thriving area of intellectual enquiry. The Routledge Geopolitics Series invites scholars to publish their original and innovative research in geopolitics and related fields. We invite proposals that are theoretically informed and empirically rich without prescribing research designs, methods and/or theories. Geopolitics is a diverse field making its presence felt throughout the arts and humanities, social sciences and physical and environmental sciences. Formal, practical and popular geopolitical studies are welcome as are research in areas informed by borders and bordering, elemental geo-politics, feminism, identity, law, race, resources, territory and terrain, materiality and objects. The series is also global in geographical scope and interested in proposals that focus on past, present and future geopolitical imaginations, practices and representations.
As the series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty, we welcome edited book proposals as well as monographs and textbooks which speak to geopolitics and its relationship to wider human geography, politics and international relations, anthropology, sociology, and the interdisciplinary fields of social sciences, arts and humanities.
If you would like to submit a proposal please do feel free to contact:
Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor, Routledge: [email protected]
Geopolitics, The State, and Political Science: Contextualizing Rudolf Kjellén, founder of geopolitics
1st Edition
By Peter Davidsen
November 21, 2025
Geopolitics, the State, and Political Science offers the first comprehensive intellectual history of Rudolf Kjellén (1864–1922), the founder of geopolitics who formulated a systematic organic theory of the state. Kjellén played a decisive role in shaping both the institutional emergence of ...
Bulgarian Geopolitics in a Balkan Context: Imagining the Space of a Nation
1st Edition
By Valentin Mihaylov
August 29, 2025
This book is about the geographic space as an inseparable component of a nation’s historical memory, territorial awareness, geopolitical visions, and obsessions. The empirical part of the book focuses on the critical analysis of first-hand sources containing representations of the imagined spaces ...
Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse: The Island Race
1st Edition
By Nick Whittaker
November 28, 2024
This is the first book to examine Britain’s geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues. It ...
Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics: Place Names as a Political Instrument in the Post-Soviet States
1st Edition
Edited
By Sergei Basik
May 27, 2024
This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse. With multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, chapters ...
Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference
1st Edition
By Alex G. Papadopoulos, Triantafyllos G. Petridis
May 31, 2023
This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference and exclusion. It examines Greece’s central role in shaping the state system, regional security, and ...
The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea: A Critical Examination
1st Edition
By Yannis Tsantoulis
May 31, 2023
Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts, viewed as a failure ...
An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland
1st Edition
By Kara E. Dempsey
July 29, 2022
This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island’s two distinct political units. Highlighting key geographic themes of bordering, unity, division, and national narratives, it ...
Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Andréanne Bissonnette, Élisabeth Vallet
May 06, 2022
This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new ...
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power
1st Edition
By Annika Nilsson E., Miyase Christensen
December 18, 2020
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power provides a fresh way of looking at the potential and limitations of regional international governance in the Arctic region. Far-reaching impacts of climate change, its wealth of resources and potential for new commercial activities have placed the Arctic region ...