Agnew is a distinguished professor of geography whose work delves into the intricate relationships between territory, place, and political power. He is renowned for fundamentally reshaping the field of geopolitics, advocating for an understanding of national politics through the lens of geographical dynamics. His research explores how places are constructed from both local and distant influences, with a particular focus on Italy, Greece, and the United States.
Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy.