geopolitics

English

Etymology

geo- +‎ politics, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish geopolitik, coined in 1900 by Rudolf Kjellén.

Noun

geopolitics (uncountable)

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     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

• geopolitical
• geopolitically
• geopolitician
• geoeconomics
• astropolitics

Translations

the study of the effects of geography on international politics

• Armenian: աշխարհաքաղաքականություն (hy) (ašxarhakʻaġakʻakanutʻyun)
• Catalan: geopolítica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地緣政治學／地缘政治学 (dìyuán zhèngzhìxué), 地缘政治学 (dìyuán zhèngzhìxué), 地緣政治／地缘政治 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhì), 地缘政治 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhì)

• Danish: geopolitik (da) c
• Finnish: geopolitiikka (fi)
• French: géopolitique (fr) f
• Galician: xeopolítica (gl) f
• Georgian: გეოპოლიტიკა (geoṗoliṭiḳa)
• German: Geopolitik (de) f
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• Greek: γεωπολιτική (el) f (geopolitikí)
• Hebrew: גאופוליטיקה (he) f (geopolítika)
• Hindi: भूराजनीति f (bhūrājnīti)
• Italian: geopolitica (it) f
• Japanese: 地政学 (ちせいがく, chiseigaku)
• Macedonian: геополитика f (geopolitika)
• Polish: geopolityka (pl) f
• Portuguese: geopolítica f
• Russian: геополи́тика (ru) f (geopolítika)
• Spanish: geopolítica (es) f
• Swedish: geopolitik (sv) c