Political geography is the field of human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally political geography adopts a three-scale structure for the purposes of analysis with the study of the state at the centre, above this is the study of international relations (or geopolitics), and below it is the study of localities. The primary concerns of the sub-discipline can be summarised as the inter-relationships between people, state, and territory.

The origins of political geography lie in the origins of human geography itself and the early practitioners were concerned mainly with the military and political consequences of the relationships between physical geography, state territories, and state power. In particular there was a close association with regional geography, with its focus on the unique characteristics of regions, and environmental determinism with its emphasis on the influence of the physical environment on human activities. This association found expression in the work of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel who, in 1897 in his book Politische Geographie, developed the concept of Lebensraum (living space) which explicitly linked the cultural growth of a nation with territorial expansion, and which was later used to provide academic legitimation for the imperialist expansion of the German Third Reich in the 1930s.

Scott Neeson is a Scottish-Australian film executive and philanthropist.

Scott Neeson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At age 5, he emigrated with his family to Australia.

He was raised in the industrial city of Elizabeth, South Australia, and launched what was to be a successful career in the film business with a company that operated drive-in movie theaters. He quickly climbed the ranks of the Australian film industry before accepting a position with 20th Century Fox International in Los Angeles.

Neeson spent ten years at Fox, ultimately rising to the position of President, where he oversaw the releases of blockbusters such as Titanic, Braveheart, Independence Day, X-Men, the Star Wars prequel trilogy and over 100 other films.

In 2003, Neeson left Fox to take up a new role at Sony Pictures Entertainment. It was in between these two jobs that Neeson took a brief sabbatical to Southeast Asia, and was invited by a Phnom Penh resident to visit Steung Meanchey, the toxic landfill on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital city.