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What is Political Geography

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The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Consequences on the Geopolitics of the World
Concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and how political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally, for analysis, political geography adopts a three-scale structure with the study of the state at the center, the study of international relations (or geopolitics ) above it, and the study of localities below it. The primary concerns of the subdiscipline can be summarized as the inter-relationships between people, state, and territory.
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The Role and Place of Geopolitics in the Scientific System
Nika Chitadze (International Black Sea University, Georgia)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8521-7.ch001
Abstract
Geopolitics belongs to the group of social-geographical sciences and is a part of political geography. They distinguish between traditional, new (geo economics), and the latest (geo philosophy) geopolitics. Traditional geopolitics emphasizes the military-political power of the state and the dominant role of geographical factors in the conquest of foreign territories. The new (geo-economics) focuses on the economic power of the states in contrast to the traditional one. The latest geopolitics, in which spiritual power dominates military and economic power, helps states to overcome traditional and economic determinism at the expense of expanding the basic factors in determining behavior in international relations.
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