Geopolitics (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth, land', and πολιτική (politikḗ) 'politics') is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.[1][2] While geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on two other kinds of states: de facto independent states with limited international recognition and relations between sub-national geopolitical entities, such as the federated states that make up a federation, confederation, or a quasi-federal system.
At the level of international relations, geopolitics is a method of studying foreign policy to understand, explain, and predict international political behavior through geographical variables. These include area studies, climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and applied science of the region being evaluated.[3]
Geopolitics focuses on political power linked to geographic space, in particular, territorial waters and land territory in correlation with diplomatic history. Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a geopolitical system.[4] Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their political/ideological functions for great powers.[5] There are some works that discuss the geopolitics of renewable energy.[6][7]
According to Christopher Gogwilt and other researchers, the term is currently being used to describe a broad spectrum of concepts, in a general sense used as "a synonym for international political relations", but more specifically "to imply the global structure of such relations"; this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic determinism.[8][9][10][2]
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^ abOverland, Indra (2015). "Future Petroleum Geopolitics: Consequences of Climate Policy and Unconventional Oil and Gas". Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 3517–3544. doi:10.1002/9781118991978.hces203. hdl:11250/2451749. ISBN 9781118991978 – via Researchgate.
^Evans, Graham (1998). The Penguin dictionary of international relations. Newnham, Jeffrey. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051397-3. OCLC 41113670.
^Vladimir Toncea, 2006, "Geopolitical evolution of borders in Danube Basin"
^Okur, Mehmet Akif (2014-12-16). "Classical Texts Of The Geopolitics And The "Heart Of Eurasia"". Ege Universitesi Turk Dunyasi Incelemeleri Dergisi. 14 (2). doi:10.13062/tdid.201428262 (inactive 2024-02-07). ISSN 1301-2045.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2024 (link)
^Overland, Indra (2019-03-01). "The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths". Energy Research & Social Science. 49: 36–40. Bibcode:2019ERSS...49...36O. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.018. ISSN 2214-6296.
^O'Sullivan, Meghan; Overland, Indra; Sandalow, David (2017). "The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy". SSRN Working Paper Series. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2998305. hdl:11250/2447113. ISSN 1556-5068. S2CID 157400282. SSRN 2998305.
^Gogwilt, Christopher (2000). The fiction of geopolitics: afterimages of geopolitics, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock, 1860–1940. Stanford, Calif.; Cambridge: Stanford University Press; Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8047-3726-5. OCLC 44932458.
^Dittmer, Jason; Sharp, Joanne P (2014). Geopolitics: an introductory reader. London; New York: Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-415-66663-3. OCLC 895013513.
^Deudney, Daniel (March 2000). "Geopolitics as Theory:: Historical Security Materialism". European Journal of International Relations. 6 (1): 77–107. doi:10.1177/1354066100006001004. ISSN 1354-0661. S2CID 146194629.
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