The complication of the object studied by political geography - the world political space, the development of interdisciplinary approaches and the emergence of new theoretical concepts leads to an expansion of key concepts. It is possible to distinguish between “old” concepts, including “sovereignty”, “borders”, “state territory”, and “new” ones that have arisen over the past two to three decades. The interpretation of the "old" concepts became immeasurably more complex. The most striking example is the understanding of sovereignty in different countries and regions. Some states adhere to its traditional normative interpretation as independence of state authorities, others are ready to delegate some competences to supranational institutions. Among the "new" concepts, there are dialectical categories – debordering-rebordering, integration-regionalization, deterritorialization-reterritorialization. The set of key concepts is changing under the influence of the growing fragmentation of the world political space - the multiplication of the number of states and a deepening of differences in their political status and potential, the expansion of non-controlled territories and unrecognized polities. This process, in turn, results from globalization and regional inequality, large-scale migrations, a crisis of identity in some regions of the world and its strengthening in others. Most of the new countries are unable to bear the costs of sovereignty and fully exercise government functions. The crisis of statehood has led to the development of the concepts of “graduated” and “divisible”, external and internal sovereignty, control over territory, etc. As a result of the selectivity of globalization processes, the barrier and contact functions of political borders are redistributed. Postmodern reality is characterized by the interpenetration of legitimate and illegitimate political units, which erodes the very notion of a state border.
Mots clés : concepts|political geography|evolution
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