Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border

Chapter 1 Writing Geopolitics in Trieste: Gianfranco Battisti’s Intellectual Production in the Context of the ‘Geography of Geographies’

Chapter 2 Geography as Industry: The Institutions, Untraded Interdependencies, and Worlds of Production Shaping Academic Work

Chapter 3 Becoming a Geographer in Trieste. Autobiographical Essay, Reflecting on the Nature of Geography

Chapter 4 Living in the Borderlands: Political Geography, Geopolitics, and Advocacy in the Triestino School of Geography During the Long Twentieth Century

Chapter 5 Urbanization Processes in a Transnational Area. An Application of the Rank-Size Rule to the Austrian Littoral

Chapter 6 Gorizia Nova , Aka “New Gorizia:” A Euro-City on the Border Between Italy and Slovenia. A Recommendation for Local-Level Territorial Changes After Slovenia Joined the European Union in 2004

Chapter 7 Inland Areas and Border Regions: A Geopolitical Interpretation. Comparing the Marginalization of Trieste and Umbria as Examples of the Dynamics of Borderlands Versus Remote Inland Areas

Chapter 8 The Reshaping of German-Yugoslav Space from a Middle European Point of View. Paper Presented at the 2nd IBRU Conference, Held in Durham, UK, on July 18–21, 1991

Chapter 9 Europe. The Many Reasons of an Epoch-Spanning Crisis. A Long-Term Geohistorical and Geoeconomics Analysis of the Obstacles to European Integration

Chapter 10 A Century of Struggles. A Comparison of Multiple Geopolitical Agendas in Europe, the USA, and Beyond

Chapter 11 Cycles of Geopolitical (Dis)order, as Determined by Interactions Between Spatial Systems. A Theoretical Model of the Systemic Drivers of Geopolitics