John Agnew

TL;DR: Even when political rule is territorial, territoriality does not necessarily entail the practices of total mutual exclusion which dominant understandings of the modern territorial state attribute to it as discussed by the authors, however, when the territoriality of the state is debated by international relations theorists, the discussion is overwhelmingly in terms of the persistence or obsolescence of the territorial state as an unchanging entity rather than in the terms of its significance and meaning in different historical-geographical circumstances.

TL;DR: For over two hundred years the domination of some countries by others has been intrinsic to international relations, with national economic and political strength viewed as essential to a nation's survival and global position as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors argue for the re-conceptualization of geo-politics using the concept of discourse and argue that the irony of such practical geo-political representations of place is that they necessitate the abrogation of genuine geographical knowledge about the diversity and complexity of places as social entities.