The author shows the strong relation between political developments, frontiers and their graphical representation on maps. Human rights, economic globalisation and the European integration process do change national policy and erode classical border lines. Still today, maps with lines and colours as their main graphic elements represent the world of the 19th century with separate national states in atlases, schoolbooks and electronic media. The main argument of the article insists on stressing the political character of maps and showing the contradiction between the cartographic picture of the world and the recent international transformations. The author concludes with the question of whether maps can reproduce these new developments at all.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1143 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Sprengel, Rainer |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Zeitschrift für internationale Politik und vergleichende Studien. - 22 (1999). - S. 97 – 112 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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