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    Geopolitics (From: Greek International Relations Foreign Policy Topography Demography

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    Geopolitics is the study of how geography influences international politics and relations. It analyzes political power in relation to geographic space and examines strategic implications of land and sea power. Geopolitics considers physical and human geographic variables and their effects on a state's foreign policy, and is a multidisciplinary field that draws on political science, international relations, geography, and history to understand international political behavior. The term was coined in the early 20th century by Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén and was inspired by the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel.

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    Geopolitics is the study of how geography influences international politics and relations. It analyzes political power in relation to geographic space and examines strategic implications of land and sea power. Geopolitics considers physical and human geographic variables and their effects on a state's foreign policy, and is a multidisciplinary field that draws on political science, international relations, geography, and history to understand international political behavior. The term was coined in the early 20th century by Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén and was inspired by the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel.

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    Geopolitics is the study of how geography influences international politics and relations. It analyzes political power in relation to geographic space and examines strategic implications of land and sea power. Geopolitics considers physical and human geographic variables and their effects on a state's foreign policy, and is a multidisciplinary field that draws on political science, international relations, geography, and history to understand international political behavior. The term was coined in the early 20th century by Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén and was inspired by the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel.

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    Geopolitics (from Greek ge "earth/land" and politik "politics") is the study of the

    effects of geography (both human and physical) on international politics and international
    relations.
    [1]
    Geopolitics is a method of foreign policy analysis which seeks to understand,
    explain, and predict international political behaviour primarily in terms of geographical
    variables. Typical geographical variables are the physical location, size, climate, topography,
    demography, natural resources, and technological advances of the state being evaluated.
    [2]

    Traditionally, the term has applied primarily to the impact of geography on politics, but its usage
    has evolved over the past century to encompass wider connotations.
    Geopolitics traditionally studies the links between political power and geographic space, and
    examines strategic prescriptions based on the relative importance of land power and sea power in
    world history. The geopolitical tradition had some consistent concerns with geopolitical
    correlations of power in world politics, the identification of international core areas, and the
    relationships between naval and terrestrial capabilities.
    [3]
    Academically, the study of geopolitics
    analyses geography, history, and social science with reference to spatial politics and patterns at
    various scales. Also, the study of geopolitics includes the study of the ensemble of relations
    between the interests of international political actors, interests focused to an area, space,
    geographical element or ways, relations which create a geopolitical system.
    [4]
    Geopolitics is
    multidisciplinary in scope, and includes all aspects of the social scienceswith particular
    emphasis on political geography, international relations, the territorial aspects of political science
    and international law.
    [5]
    The practice directly and indirectly impacts businesses and economies.
    [6]

    The term "Geopolitics" was coined at the beginning of the twentieth century by Rudolf Kjelln, a
    Swedish political scientist, who was inspired by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel. Ratzel
    published Politische Geographie (political geography) in 1897; that book was later popularized
    in English by the Austro-Hungarian historian Emil Reich and the American diplomat Robert
    Strausz-Hup (a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania). Although Halford
    Mackinder had a pioneering role in the field, he never used the term geopolitics himself.
    [7]

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