Geopolitics
Geopolitics is an noun meaning:[1]
- the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- the combination of geographic and political factors influencing or delineating a country or region.
- a national policy based on the interrelation of politics and geography.
- a Nazi doctrine known as the Haushofer school that combined political, geographic, historical, racial, and economic factors to substantiate Germany's right to expand its Lebensraum and borders to control various strategic land masses and natural resources.
Origin of the concept
The origin of the concept of "geo-politics" or "political geography" was born in relation to the territories of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the Caucuses, or the Intermarium. Also ancient Scythia.[2] The wide-open steppe of the borderlands between Europe and Asia, East and West, Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim, Slav, German, Turk and others, with its lack of mountainous terrain to serve as natural boundaries between groups with linguistic, cultural, religious and traditional background differences is how the term or study of "geopolitics" came into existence. "Geopolitics" is a 19th & 20th century invention to study the intersection of the Occident & Orient, with its sordid history of conflict over many millennia.
Theoretically, it was only by study and interaction between these peoples in an effort to understand each other better that racial, ethnic, and violent conflict could be reduced between peoples who may be in different stages of their social and economic development in comparison with Western societies. History has shown it hasn't always worked out that way.
