Toward an integrated approach to the geography of international trade

An increased global interdependence poses both opportunities and obligations for a revitalized geography of international trade. This subject area has never acquired a satisfactory focus because its practitioners have taken a limited view of their topic, have neglected related work in other disciplines, and have failed to consider the policy implications of their study. As a remedy, this paper proposes a geography of international trade based upon three interrelated problem areas: the decision-making processes, the spatial fabric, and the space-time metric of world trade.