Geopolitics

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The study of political, economic, and social relationships between states and regions.

"Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations."
"While geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on de facto independent states with limited international recognition and relations between sub-national geopolitical entities."
"These include area studies, climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and applied science of the region being evaluated."
"Geopolitics focuses on political power linked to geographic space, in particular, territorial waters and land territory in correlation with diplomatic history."
"Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a geopolitical system."
"Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their political/ideological functions for great powers."
"There are some works that discuss the geopolitics of renewable energy."
"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'"
"More specifically, [geopolitics] implies 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."
"[Geopolitics combines] Earth's geography (human and physical) with politics and international relations."
"Geographical variables considered in geopolitics are area studies, climate, topography, demography, and natural resources."
"Geopolitics focuses on political power linked to geographic space, in particular, territorial waters and land territory in correlation with diplomatic history."
"No, geopolitics may also focus on de facto independent states with limited international recognition and relations between sub-national geopolitical entities."
"Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their political/ideological functions for great powers."
"Relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element create a geopolitical system."
"Yes, geopolitics studies the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations."
"Yes, there are works that discuss the geopolitics of renewable energy."
"Geopolitics is a method of studying foreign policy to understand, explain, and predict international political behavior through geographical variables."
"The term [geopolitics] builds on an 'early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography' and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic determinism."