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geopolitics definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state

Merriam Webster's

noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1904 1. a study of the influence of such factors as geography, economics, and demography on the politics and especially the foreign policy of a state 2. a governmental policy guided by geopolitics 3. a combination of political and geographic factors relating to something (as a state or particular resources) • geopolitical adjective • geopolitically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the politics of a country as determined by its geographical features. 2 the study of this. Derivatives: geopolitical adj. geopolitically adv. geopolitician n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Geopolitics is concerned with politics and the way that geography affects politics or relations between countries.