geopolitics
[jee-oh-pol-i-tiks]
- the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- the combination of geographic and political factors influencing or delineating a country or region.
- a national policy based on the interrelation of politics and geography.
- a Nazi doctrine that a combination of political, geographic, historical, racial, and economic factors substantiated Germany's right to expand its borders and control various strategic land masses and natural resources.
Compare Lebensraum.
Origin of geopolitics
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Examples from the Web for geopolitics
Contemporary Examples
The F-22, after decades of development, is finally becoming relevant to American security and geopolitics.
In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe.
They go where the profits are, not where geopolitics dictates.
His book, he hopes, combines science, geopolitics, and larky history.
Everything I ever really needed to know about geopolitics I learned from watching the Olympics.
Historical Examples
The newcomers were all destitute, the refugees of the geopolitics of hate from both the Eastern block and from the Arab countries.
After the RainSam Vaknin
These eunuchs of geopolitics do not dare to carry their military and economic clout to its logical and beneficial conclusion.
After the RainSam Vaknin
Unfortunately possessed of strategic import, the Balkan was ravaged by geopolitics.
After the RainSam Vaknin
geopolitics
- (functioning as singular) the study of the effect of geographical factors on politics, esp international politics; political geography
- (functioning as plural) the combination of geographical and political factors affecting a country or area
- (functioning as plural) politics as they affect the whole world; global politics
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