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by Colin Flint
Geopolitics, 2001, Vol. 6, pp. 1-16.
Scholars have noted a recent transition from modern to postmodern geopolitics. Deterritorialization is the defining feature of the new geopolitical condition. The purpose of this essay is to outline a world-systems theory interpretation of the processes of deterritorialization. World-systems makes three contributions; the core/periphery of the world-economy explains the geographic pattern of deterritorialization, hegemonic cycles explain the timing of deterritorialization, and the institutions of the world-economy provide an understanding of the politics that underlie contemporary geopolitical processes. The core/periphery structure of the world-economy provokes two responses, the geopolitics of laughter and forgetting.
Keywords: Geopolitics; World-Systems Theory; Deterritorialization