“+ 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