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geopolitics

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 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
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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.