Scope of Political Geography

Political geography expresses the relationship between the state and the natural environment. The state has three parts. Part Population and political system. Any two states look at the natural environment. The strength, prosperity or weakness of the state is determined by the natural environment there. The study of various activities taking place in a state or in several states of the royal geographer results from analysis. This study incorporates the Temporal initiative from the ancient to the present. Basically political geography is associated with spatial interrelations of political and geographical components.

The subject area of political geography includes the following facts.

1. Study of geographical expansion of the state and the geographical environment in which political boundaries are also taken into consideration. The specific study of political geography is the point state which is able to keep itself alive while being politically organized.

2. Natural resources and population which are essential for state development and state security. The state's position, size expansion, mineral agriculture, transportation etc. all come under this study.

3. The social and ethnic nature of the state's population which is important for internal administration and national power.

4. State's own resources and resources obtained by relations with other states which are necessary for development.

5. All the current events of the world like - Western Asia, North Korea and Indo-Pak problems are studied in the geographical background and find solutions.

6. The study of political decisions, election geography and practical role of international organizations is also its content.

7. As a spatial region, the structure of political geography has horizontal and vertical aspects.

(A) Vertical - The spatial position which is from the sea level to the highest mountain peak and the study of the related economic and political component is involved in it.

(B) Horizontal - Geopolitical aspect which is related to the site, hydrosphere and biosphere etc. The continental region in which all continents/islands study political relationships and their reactions.

The hemisphere region - in which the political activities of the northern, eastern, southern and western hemispheres are studied.

8. Political activity area which includes the following facts -

(a) Production - All types of local to international political activities are studied in it.

(b) Exchange - This involves the study of the relationship between the price increase of each political product, financial, packaging or sending goods.

(c) Consumption - It studies political consumer behavior and its spatial pattern.

(d) Development - It is related to the study of political development and its spatial difference.

(e) Globe aspect - The world has become smaller due to short distances in the international world. Therefore, a person from a small village also participates in political activities in remote areas.

(f) Theoretical aspects - Different theories help to explain political activities, such as the Heartland hypothesis, the Rim-Land hypothesis, and the Lebaneserom ideology.

(g) Inter-disciplinary science - Nowadays with the help of many types of social sciences, political geography tries to explain its point.

(h) Miscellaneous Approach - Political geography also takes help with the help of several approaches such as analytical, descriptive, experiential, deterministic.

In short, political geography studies all the activities of the state, inter-state relations, regional cooperation and world organizations. Current political geography gives importance to practical aspects rather than theoretical formulation.

Source : Rajeev Bansal's (SEPD)