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What is Geopolitics and Why Does it Matter?

An Introduction to Geopolitics and How it Impacts Our Lives

Geopolitics can be explained as the framework used to see the complex characteristics of the world we live in today. This considers the political, economic, military, and geographic dimensions that shape the behaviors, decisions, and actions of a nation. Geopolitics is used to illustrate how countries, regions, businesses, terrorist groups, and other parties seeking power try to reach their political goals by controlling geographic features of the world. We refer to these features as “Geographical Entities”. These are the regions, territories, places, scales, and networks that make up the world.

Geography plays a key role in Geopolitics. It influences the policies countries create to advance their interests and in many instances are based on the common good for all involved. This can include agreements and treaties between nations to harness peace and goodwill between each country, region, or territorial group. There are also geopolitical policies designed to increase power in one group’s favor over another. The pursuit of influence and power in these scenarios are often used to rationalize conflict and war. Countries use geopolitical policies to negotiate trade, business, balancing power over regions, immigration, cultural and media influence, pollution, education, and more.

Geopolitics, geopolitical entities, geopolitical policies, and the events and outcomes across the globe all play an intricate part in our daily lives. At Geopolitical Futures we provide objective and indifferent Geopolitical Analysis, Intelligence, and Forecasting to help you stay in the know. Helping you evaluate Geopolitical Risk for your business or financial strategy or provide Geopolitical News to help better inform you and your family’s lives for tomorrow. Subscribe today and receive a Free Special Report. Or join ClubGPF for exclusive content including daily Geopolitical Analysis, Forecast Insights, Special Reports, Forums, and Bi-Weekly Video discussions with internationally renowned geopolitical strategist and best-selling author, George Friedman and our GPF Analyst Team.

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From George Friedman’s Best Selling book:

The Next 100 Years

(published 2009)

For the next generation until roughly 2020, Russia’s primary concern will be reconstructing the Russian state and reasserting Russian power in the region… The Russians must dominate Belarus and Ukraine for their basic national security… If they were to fall into an enemy’s hands –for example, join NATO- Russia would be in mortal danger.

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Geopolitical Futures predicts the actions nations will take based on global cycles and patterns of conflict. Our forecasts highlight processes that will have lasting consequences and broad geopolitical impact.

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We give you a radically non-ideological perspective, based on a different view of the world. Our selection of what’s important derives from geopolitical trends, not from the media or online chatter.

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We use intelligence analysis to discover the small things that will define the future. Geopolitics defines the broad thrusts; intelligence analysis tracks its movements.

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Our forecasting model is based on the assumption that impersonal forces – things like geography, politics, economics, military capability and demography – govern world leaders, not the other way around. It’s an important distinction you don’t see anywhere else.

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