geopolitics

English

Etymology

From geo- +‎ politics, calque of Swedish geopolitik, coined in 1900 by Rudolf Kjellén.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdʒiːəʊˈpɒlɪtɪks/, /dʒi.əˈpɒlɪtɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑlətɪks/

Noun

geopolitics (uncountable)

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Related terms

• astropolitics
• geoeconomics
• geopolitical
• geopolitically
• geopolitician
• political geography

Translations

the study of the effects of geography on international politics

• Albanian: gjeopolitikë (sq) f
• Armenian: աշխարհաքաղաքականություն (hy) (ašxarhakʻaġakʻakanutʻyun)
• Asturian: xeopolítica f
• Azerbaijani: geosiyasət
• Belarusian: геапалі́тыка f (hjeapalítyka)
• Bulgarian: геополи́тика f (geopolítika)
• Catalan: geopolítica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地緣政治學 / 地缘政治学 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhìxué), 地緣政治 / 地缘政治 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhì)

• Czech: geopolitika f
• Danish: geopolitik (da) c
• Dutch: geopolitiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: geopoliitika f
• Faroese: geopolitikkur
• Finnish: geopolitiikka (fi)
• French: géopolitique (fr) f
• Galician: xeopolítica (gl) f
• Georgian: გეოპოლიტიკა (geoṗoliṭiḳa)
• German: Geopolitik (de) f
• Greek: γεωπολιτική (el) f (geopolitikí)
• Hebrew: גֵּאוֹפּוֹלִיטִיקָה (he) f (geopolítika)
• Hindi: भूराजनीति f (bhūrājnīti)
• Hungarian: geopolitika (hu)
• Italian: geopolitica (it) f
• Japanese: 地政学 (ja) (ちせいがく, chiseigaku)
• Kazakh: геосаясат (geosaäsat)
• Korean: 지정학(地政學) (ko) (jijeonghak)
• Kyrgyz: геосаясат (geosayasat)
• Latvian: ģeopolitika f
• Lithuanian: geopolitika f
• Macedonian: геополитика f (geopolitika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geopolitikk m

• Persian: ژئوپلیتیک (fa) (že'opolitik), جغراسیاست (fa) (joğrâsiyâsat)
• Polish: geopolityka (pl) f
• Portuguese: geopolítica (pt) f
• Romanian: geopolitică (ro) f
• Russian: геополи́тика (ru) f (geopolítika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геополѝтика f

  Roman: geopolìtika (sh) f

• Slovak: geopolitika f
• Slovene: geopolitika f
• Spanish: geopolítica (es) f
• Swedish: geopolitik (sv) c
• Tajik: геополитика (geopolitika), сиёсати ҷуғрофиёӣ (siyosat-i juġrofiyoi)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: jeopolitik (tr)
• Ukrainian: геополі́тика f (heopolítyka)
• Urdu: جُغْرَافِیَائِی سِیَاسَتْ (juġrāfiyāī siyāsat)
• Uzbek: geosiyosat (uz)
• Vietnamese: địa chính trị (vi)