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geo·politics \“+\ noun plural but singular in construction Etymology: ge- + politics; translation of German geopolitik 1. : a study of the influence of such physical factors as geography, economics, and demography upon the politics and especially the foreign policy of a state < the present tendency to study geopolitics in colleges — Thomas Woody > — compare political geography 2. : a Nazi expansionist doctrine that emphasized strategic frontiers, lebensraum, and racial, economic, and social pressures as factors demanding reallocation of the earth's surface and resources < made geopolitics into an effective organ of propaganda — G.H.Sabine > 3. : a governmental policy guided by geopolitics < the geopolitics of the Japanese government > 4. : the combination of political and geographic factors characterizing a particular state or region < a study of the geopolitics of the United Kingdom and the rest of the empire — Armed Forces Talk > |