Critical geopolitics

[citation needed] This poststructuralist orientation holds that the realities of global political space do not simply reveal themselves to detached, omniscient observers.

In this context, geopolitical practices result from complex constellations of competing ideas and discourses, which they in turn modify.

[3]: 208  Popular culture construct a common sense understanding of world politics through the use of movies, books, magazines, etc.

[3]: 209  While analyzing James Bond movies, he discovered a recurring message of Western states' geopolitical anxieties.

[4] Critical geopolitics is an ongoing project which came to prominence when the French geographer Yves Lacoste published 'La géographie ça sert d'abord à faire la guerre' ('geography is primarily for waging war') (1976) and founded the journal Hérodote.

[2] Ó Tuathail's 1996 book Critical Geopolitics defined the state of the subdiscipline at the time, and codified its methodological and intellectual underpinnings.

Contributing to this area is the book entitled The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis by József Böröcz.

Critical geopolitics-based work has been published in a range of Geographical and trans-disciplinary journals, as well as in books and edited collections.