Difference between revisions of "Geopolitics"
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#a national [[policy]] based on the interrelation of [[politics]] and [[geography]]. | #a national [[policy]] based on the interrelation of [[politics]] and [[geography]]. | ||
#a [[Nazi]] doctrine known as the [[Haushofer school]] that combined [[political]], [[geography|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 [[resource]]s. | #a [[Nazi]] doctrine known as the [[Haushofer school]] that combined [[political]], [[geography|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 [[resource]]s. | ||
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==Origin of the concept== | ==Origin of the concept== | ||
Revision as of 20:57, May 29, 2025
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. 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 can be reduced between peoples who may be at different points in their social and economic development from Western societies. History has shown it jasn';t always worked out that way.