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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌdʒiːəʊˈpɒlɪtɪks/, /dʒi.əˈpɒlɪtɪks/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑlətɪks/

名詞

geopolitics (uncountable)

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on politics and international relations, usually referring to countries and relations between them.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 13 November 2025, 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.

   • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 11 December 2025:

     More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.

使用する際の注意点

According to multiple researchers, the term is currently being used to describe a broad spectrum of concepts, in a general sense used as "a synonym for international political relations", but more specifically "to imply the global structure of such relations"; this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific theories of historical and geographic determinism.

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