geopolitics
Americannoun
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the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
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the combination of geographic and political factors influencing or delineating a country or region.
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a national policy based on the interrelation of politics and geography.
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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.
noun
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(functioning as singular) the study of the effect of geographical factors on politics, esp international politics; political geography
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(functioning as plural) the combination of geographical and political factors affecting a country or area
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(functioning as plural) politics as they affect the whole world; global politics
Other Word Forms
- geopolitic adjective
- geopolitical adjective
- geopolitically adverb
- geopolitician noun
- geopolitist noun
Etymology
Origin of geopolitics
1900–05; translation of German Geopolitik. See geo-, politics
Example Sentences
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Greenland’s rising profile in international affairs reflects the larger global scramble for the Arctic as climate change opens maritime routes and reorders geopolitics at the top of the world.
“Spot-oriented oil markets tend to significantly discount future expected arrivals of crude in pricing centers, especially if geopolitics can leave sanctioned barrels stranded at sea for years.”
"We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be."
From BBC
"We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be".
From BBC
But Ms. MacDonald counsels against making too much of the episode, which reduces “Mediterranean-wide geopolitics to the story of one family.”
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