After the Second World War, political geography has mainly tended to the disposition of “changeable” and “functional” facts.
The analysis method of previous politlcal geography was rather “morphological” or “unorganic.”
(1) Namely, present political geography is tending to more humancentric than previous one.
Jones has emphasised the facts that human being ought to cause “movement” for political area; the chain from idea to area is solved with his unified field method of political geography.
(2) Internal state problems have been newly carried on with this study.
Moodie has especially dealed with the problems of internal political geography in his work. Hartshorne has also tried “functional” analysis between internal and inter-state relations.
(3) The personality of political community or political area must be analysed as an organization that has genesis or process, structure and function, but indicators related to these facts are difficult to select. Upon the internal communities of Japan I've tried to analyse with some of these indicators, but as statistics or some other data are made by unit of administrative area, I must be bound to it's boundary. Because no adequate machinery exists for the collection of similar data regarding reasonable regions.
(4) Problems concerning state mass in the world are interested in present politlcal geography. Sometimes, the world politlcs are based on local state mass as local, regional relation of states are somewhat strictly. Finding out the method how to solve the meaning of local state mass relation, is necessary to political geography.