Rate My Professor John Agnew

Agnew’s research focuses on political geography, geopolitics of the world economy, territoriality and sovereignty, European urbanization, and place and politics in modern Italy. His influential publications include the highly cited article “The Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory” (1994), books such as Geopolitics: Re-visioning World Politics (second edition, 2003), Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (2005), Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (second edition, 2018), Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (1987), and Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (2019, with Michael Shin). He has received prestigious honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003-2004), the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (2007), the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Association of Geographers (2006), the Vautrin-Lud Prize (2019), the Charles P. Daly Medal (2024), Fellowship of the British Academy (2017), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu (2017). Agnew’s scholarship has significantly impacted the field by redefining concepts of territory, sovereignty, and power in global politics.