Geopolitics

Origin

- + politics, borrowed from Swedish geopolitik, coined in 1900

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by Rudolf Kjellén.

Full definition of geopolitics

Noun

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
• 2013-07-19, Timothy Garton Ash, Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Related terms

• geoeconomics
• geopolitical