geopolitics

Etymology

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

noun

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
   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. 2013-07-19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18