The fundamental change in geopolitics has not been fully realized. Great-power divides, the collapse of empires, the shrinkage of geography through technology, the legacy of Communism, and Shakespearean decline all play monumental roles in the roiling instability of our world. But there is something at once broader and more subtle that affects both world politics and our daily lives. In fact, the primary change in geopolitics is urbanization, and the intensification of politics that it leads to.
