The Political Geography journal started printing in 1981 and is now in its 19th year of publication. Elsevier Science Limited publishes the journal at a rate of eight issues per year. It attempts to bring together writings from what it calls the "four major strands of current political geographical research": traditional studies in topics such as the structure of states and geo-strategy of regions; quantitative, positivist studies; political economy issues arising from alternative theories of the state or world-systems; and post-structuralist analysis of geopolitics, specifically giving focus to issues of gender, race, and post-coloniality.

The length of articles in Political Geography are on average 20 to 35 pages. In addition to articles on certain topics there are also book reviews on various texts, which are usually in between two and three pages in length. The articles (and the books reviewed) are extremely varied in content, from descriptive to theoretical, often mixing the two approaches. For example, an article in Volume 19, Issue 5 called "Engendering citizenship: gendered spaces in democracy in South Africa" is a perfect example of an article from this journal, which blends specific, descriptive geographic knowledge from democratic struggles in South Africa with theory-- both feminist geography and modern political theory.

There is no regional emphasis of the journal, nor any topical preference outside of the broad range of "political geography". The primary authors of the articles and book reviews are academics within various universities across the world. That also appears to be the intended audience; in addition its mission statement also claims to provide "a forum for non-geographers concerned with the spatial dimensions in politics". The articles are in-depth and elaborate, often requiring the reader to have at least a familiarity with the topic or region of discussion-- it is not for the unaware, nor is it necessarily a good "intro" journal.

The University of Akron Bierce Library gets the journal, and has back issues to Volume 11 (1992). The journal was originally called the Political Geography Quarterly, but they dropped the "Quarterly" in 1992 when they began to publish six issues a year instead of four. The Bierce Library has the PGQ issues from 1986 to 1991. There is some brief information regarding the journal online, at Elsevier's web site, but nothing more useful than a description of the journal's purpose and ordering information (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/polgeo). OhioLink has access to the full-text of all articles back to 1995 via the Electronic Journal Center.