geopolitics
Sign in to saveGeopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them. According to multiple researchers, the term is currently being used to describe a broad spectrum of concepts, in a general sense used as "a synonym for international political relations", but more specifically "to imply the global structure of such relations"; this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic det
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Geopolitics is the study of how geography—such as a country's location, natural resources, and terrain—shapes its politics and relationships with other nations. It matters because understanding these geographic influences helps explain why countries act the way they do on the world stage and how global power structures develop.
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- United States
- Alfred Thayer Mahan and sea power
- Nicholas J. Spykman
- Homer Lea
- Edmund Walsh
- Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Grand Chessboard
- United Kingdom
- Mackinder and the Heartland Theory
- Germany
- Friedrich Ratzel
- The association of German Geopolitik with Nazism
- Disciplinary differences in perspectives
- France
- Montesquieu and climate theory
- Ancel, Braudel, and the rejection of determinism
- Lacoste and the renaissance of French geopolitics
- Russia
- China
- Study of geopolitics
- Notable Institutions
- See also
- Notes
- References
Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them. According to multiple researchers, the term is currently being used to describe a broad spectrum of concepts, in a general sense used as "a synonym for international political relations", but more specifically "to imply the global structure of such relations"; this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic determinism.
At the level of international relations, geopolitics is a method of studying foreign policy to understand, explain, and predict international political behavior through geographical variables. These include area studies, climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and applied science of the region being evaluated.