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UK
/dʒˌiːəʊpəlˈɪtɪks/
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[ US /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑɫətɪks/ ]
[ US /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑɫətɪks/ ]
NOUN
- the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state
How To Use geopolitics In A Sentence
- These developments are having a major impact on the geopolitics of the region.
- Such is the culture of hatred and revenge, as surely in geopolitics as in samurai films or the family feuds of the American south: with one side's victory begins the other's quest for vengeance.
- To attempt to land troops in Venezuela would have galvanised the people of South America against the invaders, which would have been bad for its image and worse for its geopolitics.
- But whatever he's doing in geopolitics -- and Obama is certainly giving that Columbia IR degree of his a very extensive workout -- doesn't matter very much to voters. William Bradley: Obama's Big Mistake
- Geopolitics, history and common sense all indicate that a dominant power chooses its own policies without being influenced by the special wishes of others - however friendly.
- A smart essay in geopolitics and realpolitik that does not foresee a rosy future for conformists. The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo: Book summary
- The spurious determinacy given the law at the level of the nation-state (because the state has all the guns and can enforce any decisions reached) is entirely absent at the level of geopolitics.
- The effect of these changes in world geopolitics and economics are of critical importance.
- Nicholas Spykman, the twentieth-century scholar of geopolitics, noted that throughout history, states have engaged in "circumferential and transmarine expansion" to gain control of adjacent seas.
- He alternates chapters about all aspects of ‘the Ice’ - glaciology, ice-pack dynamics, ice shelves, etc. with chapters on exploration, literature, Antarctic science, and geopolitics.