geopoliticsn.
/ˌdʒiːə(ʊ)ˈpɒlᵻtɪks/, /dʒɪəˈpɒlᵻtɪks/, U.S. /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑlədɪks/ Politics (esp. relations between states) as influenced by geographical factors; spec. a theory of politics associated with the German political scientist and geographer Karl Haushofer (1869–1946) which regarded the state as an organism with powers independent of and superior to those of its constituent groups or individuals. Also: the study of this.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > branches of politics
public policec1450
state police1779
world-policy1848
world politics1857
geopolitics1901
Weltpolitik1903
biopolitics1927
psychopolitics1942
micropolitics1951
agro-politics1960
eco-politics1970
identity politics1973
gender politics1977
1901 E. Reich in Internat. Monthly 3 15 The base of history is written not by the desires or the cunning of diplomatists or journalists, but by geography, or as I prefer to call it, by geo-politics.
1931 Geogr. Jrnl. 78 186 The rôle he assigns to ‘geopolitics’ is..the estimation of the strength and direction of geographical, economic, and political influences in the past, and their probable development in the future.
1942 H. Beukema in A. Dorpalen World of Gen. Haushofer p. xii Geopolitics is the science of the earth relationships of political processes. It is based on the broad foundations of geography, especially on political geography... Geopolitics sets out to furnish the tools for political action and the directives for political life as a whole. Thus, geopolitics becomes an art, namely, the art of guiding practical politics.
1961 Listener 16 Mar. 475/2 In terms of geo-politics, China and the United States are less compatible powers than the Soviet Union and the United States.
1997 Mercator's World Sept. 8/2 Most students of geopolitics are familiar with Cold War maps showing..a cowering Western Europe in danger of being crushed by the Russian bear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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