Imagined communities and practiced geopolitics
Journal: Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
Year: 2015

Political geographers have done a lot of work on both 'nationalism' and 'geopolitics' but they have by no means been the only users of these terms. Based on the massive data-set collected by Google's book digitization program the paper first draws a quick picture of the spread of these terms in different languages since 1900. It then provides some analysis of the substance of these terms as used in the social science literature and in political geography in particular. In a next section the curr