What is "geopolitical"

Usage examples of "geopolitical".

Second, the Bush administration remained captive to the old geopolitical thinking of the 1980s, which assumed that a strong, cohesive Iraqi state was necessary to balance Iran.

The doves had pushed back with a new variant on the old geopolitical thinking that had led the Bush administration to refrain from supporting the Iraqi intifadah.

Russia hates to see the United States throw its weight around the world and therefore tends to oppose American military moves for geopolitical reasons as well.

Even when Saddam does consider a problem at length, his ignorance of the outside world, the poor intelligence and advice he receives, and his own determination to interpret geopolitical calculations to suit what he wants to believe anyway lead him to construct bizarre scenarios that he convinces himself are highly likely.

Lower-Right quadrant, where evolution enters the human domain, I have only indicated the most concrete forms of geopolitical structures.

Stedman was not concerned with the consequences of geopolitical theory, inevitable or otherwise.

Russians and others who saw its content as a threat to their geopolitical interests and its democratizing language as arrogant, mendacious and hypocritical.

How far can they be spread by force of arms, how far they can be associated with American national prejudices, interests and geopolitical ambitions without losing their value and attractive power?

The Russians have always admitted that they remain in Hungary for purely geopolitical reasons.

Often nation-states use terrorist organizations to further their geopolitical goals.

They did so because of economic and geopolitical interests and they usually installed rabid dictators in place of the deposed elected functionaries.

Considering the colossal weight of geopolitics and geopolitical thought in present Russian security thinking, these implications cannot be overestimated.

They both share a similar geopolitical importance as potential guardians of the West.

The Czechs - like other central and east European countries - mistook a transatlantic tiff for a geopolitical divorce and tried to implausibly capitalize on the yawning rift that opened between the erstwhile allies.

Both Turkey and Israel will, in due time, be forced to accept - however reluctantly - that they are barely mid-sized, mostly Asiatic, regional powers and that their future - geopolitical and military, if not economic - lies in the Middle East, not in the Midwest.