11 Facts About Geopolitics

Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations.

Geopolitics proposed six conditions required for a nation to have sea power:.

Geopolitics thought the Anglo-Saxons faced certain disaster from their militant opponents.

Geopolitics saw navy as a basis of Colombian era empire, and predicted the 20th century to be domain of land power.

Geopolitics's work was based on assumptions similar to Mackinder's, including the unity of world politics and the world sea.

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Geopolitics shared Ratzel's scientific materialism and geographic determinism, and held that human society was determined by external influences—in the face of which qualities held innately by individuals or groups were of reduced or no significance.

Negative associations with the term "geopolitics" and its practical application stemming from its association with World War II and pre-World War II German scholars and students of Geopolitics are largely specific to the field of academic Geography, and especially sub-disciplines of human geography such as political geography.

In disciplines outside Geography, Geopolitics is not negatively viewed as a tool of imperialism or associated with Nazism, but rather viewed as a valid and consistent manner of assessing major international geopolitical circumstances and events, not necessarily related to armed conflict or military operations.

Geopolitics believed that hotter climates create hot-tempered people and colder climates aloof people, whereas the mild climate of France is ideal for political systems.

Geopolitics coined various neologism among them: Horogenesis: Neologism that describes the concept of studying the birth of borders, Dyade: border shared by two neighbouring states.

Geopolitics is particularly interested in the Orthodox, Shiite, and Buddhist religions, and in troubled regions like the Caucasus.