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It is possible to view the world in political terms as an international system composed of a number of subsystems or actors, of which the most important are the sovereign states. Though in the post-war period there has been a reaction against approaches that focus exclusively on states and their interactions, it must be recognised that the contemporary international system is subsystem-dominant. It has been established practice in political geography to divide subject matter between the categories of that which is internal to the state and that which is external to it, thus according a paramount position to the state level of investigation. In political science, traditional ethnocentric approaches have been attacked by a number of modern theorists who emphasise the importance of non-governmental political interactions at intra and extra-state levels.
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Muir, R. (1981). Political process and the state. In: Modern Political Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86076-0_5
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