"Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere."

Source : Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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