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Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a geopolitical system. [4] Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their political or ideological functions for great powers.
Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. [1] It was proposed by Radhika Desai in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire [2] as a critique of contemporary mainstream theories of International political economy (IPE) and International relations (IR). [3]
Most definitions of geostrategy below emphasize the merger of strategic considerations with geopolitical factors. While geopolitics is ostensibly neutral — examining the geographic and political features of different regions, especially the impact of geography on politics — geostrategy involves comprehensive planning, assigning means for achieving national goals or securing assets of ...
International political economy (IPE) is the study of how politics shapes the global economy and how the global economy shapes politics. [1] A key focus in IPE is on the power of different actors such as nation states, international organizations and multinational corporations to shape the international economic system and the distributive consequences of international economic activity.
In the modern geopolitical landscape, a number of terms are used to describe various types of powers, which include the following: Hegemony: a state that has the power to shape the international system and "control the external behavior of all other states." [31] Hegemony can be regional or global. [32]
A field of wheat in England. The food and drinks industry is an important sector in England, worth £10.2 bn as of 2021, although this is down 9% from 2020 and 15% from 2019. [38] Fruit and vegetable sales have been hit hardest, with sales down by 36%. The top food and drinks export categories are: Agriculture [h] and Fisheries
As a major Protestant nation, England patronized and help protect Huguenots, starting with Queen Elizabeth in 1562. [25] There was a small naval Anglo-French War (1627–1629), in which England supported the French Huguenots against King Louis XIII of France. [26] London financed the emigration of many to England and its colonies around 1700.
Prisoners of Geography is a collection of reflections on past and present geopolitics through the lens of Geography. Through various global examples, Tim Marshall challenges the widely held belief that technology is allowing humans to overcome geography and render it redundant and irrelevant to issues and processes of geopolitics and conflict.