political geography
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Politics, Politics, Geographypolitical geographypoˌlitical geˈography noun [uncountable] Pthe study of the way the Earth’s surface is divided up into different countries, rather than the way it is marked by rivers, mountains etc → physical geographyExamples from the Corpuspolitical geography• But to generalize from such sensational particulars as these is to ignore both commonsense and political geography.