DEFINITION

Field of study of geography and space. Geopolitics is the study of the way
geography determines the actions of people and the politics of nations. In
other words, geopolitics is the study of the boundary components that
divide states.
 The geopolitics for us consists of a space in which different individuals
coexist whith differents point about what is geopolitics. This individuals are
the principals actor in our concept. But they have limiteds, conditions and
special charasteristics. Some of these limitations sush as:
Geografy
Culture
Identity
An example might be the people living in coastal areas and they adapt to
their geographical conditions,but when they move to other region, factors
like as their identity and culture they look affected.
 What is the purpose?
Geopolitics is the analysis of the influence of demographic, economic, political, social and geographical factors on the life
and evolution of the states.
Who are the actors?
These, geographical settings and political processes influence politicians and military leaders decisions. This elite, is in
charge of keep state security. In order to make this possible, they make strategies to gain as much power as possible
What is its definition of space?
The international system is the space where geopolitics acts, this is the space where states interact with each other. Its the
space where states, intended to heighten its security, such as increasing its hard power, economy power, soft power or
smart power.
Definition:
Geopolitics is the analysis of the influence of demographic, economic, political, social and geographical factors on the life
and evolution of the states. These, geographical settings and political processes influence politicians and military leaders
decisions. This elite, is in charge of keep state security. In order to make this possible, they make strategies to gain as much
power as possible. According to this definition, the international system is the space where geopolitics acts, this is the space
where states interact with each other. Its the space where states, intended to heighten its security, such as increasing its
hard power, economy power, soft power or smart power.
 Is the science that explains and understand the changes of the world
power distribution in terms of space, time and territory. Also is a science
that establishes conventions and geographical boundaries, and ideas
about creation and transformation of the state. The knowledge of
Geopolitics involves geographical, sociological, cultural and economic
understandings that help to construct images and identities of the
evolution of political spaces and political entities, and the direct relation of
nature and human diversity in terms of power.
 For us, geopolitics is a very subjective and heterogeneous concept. Yet we,
may describe it in a very pragmatic way so that above its academic
definition is also useful operationally. So, our definition of geopolitics would
be it is the discipline that studies how an actor relates to a determine
geographical space taking into account the resources available, the
historic and political context of the the relationships that take place within
its boundaries; and the interest of other actors outside of its limits.

Our definition is established in a way that doesnt exclude political actors

such as individuals, organizations, associations or even states; also the
space to be studied may refer to a room, a state itself or a continent. The
way any actor relates to his environment may be subject of study through
the lenses of geopolitics.
 Geopolitics can be defined as the measures and techniques that a state can apply to a
definitive space and population, determining how they behave in terms of the feedback
of Government decisions, because they are those who beneficiate or get affected by
those rules that imply a social manner of conduct between the population.
For the record, the entire basis for the above is relative, and answers to power structures,
depending on what those peoples believe are their interests. The state, as an analysis level
is relative, because doesn't represent in all cases peoples interests, and the feedback
doesn't exist, because the outputs and governmental actions answers to vested interests,
and there are states created by other powerful states. Orderly, the features are supposed
to be measured, and even de civilizations (as an example of actor) are built-up according
to particular interests. And naturally, the space that is subject matter is as well a relative
issue, been at the time different pursuits: land, sea, the poles, the moon
Hence is that the space in which we sojourn, the people can identify new ways of behave
or thinking, that are not in the same page as the government itself. With that been said,
this ways of conduct or even so this ways of thinking can overcome states or frontiers if you
will, so we have to be ensure that in this time that we live in, there are more ways to
expand knowledge and transmitting ideas and/or, understand the world.
 Geopolitics is the science that is in charge of studying, analyzing and
predicting the different dynamics of struggle for the power of States. This
science bases his study on geographic space, analyzing economic,
cultural, social and resource characteristics of space. For geopolitics, these
characteristics manage to influence and determine the foreign policy of a
nation. The study of geopolitocs can transform the space and delimit the
States.
 Then, taking into account the last definitions of geopolitics, we will offer one definition.
Thus, we want to highlight two common elements inside last definitions. On the one side,
geopolitics is influence and on the other side, it is a political tool. Regarding the first one,
geopolitics is the influence of geographic factors in life and evolution of states, their
characteristics and relationships with other states. However, the last only recognizes states
as the only actors who can interact. There is a little trouble because geographical factors
determine many features of International Organizations too, even, in individuals as well.
And regarding the second one, geopolitics is a political tool which is used by statesman
and political analysts to understand the dynamics and features of countries inside
determined spaces. About this, we identify other trouble because statesman and political
analyst are not the only who can use geopolitics as a tool. Any individual of any profession
could use geopolitics according his desire. An Economist can use geopolitics to discover
how political determinism of geography defines the successful application of an
economic model inside one country and its failure inside another. Also, it is important
labeling the idea that geopolitics is a discipline that tie some sciences like Political Science
and Geography.
Finally, according to us, geopolitics is the discipline that study how geographical factors
determine characteristics, development, and relationships of and between actors inside
international system with the purpose of providing tools for its analysis.
 The concept of geopolitics enclosure two parts: Geo and politic. Geo refer of
the geographic component.
We must understand geopolitics as a discipline to have to concern with the
conception of space. A simple definition of space is a physical place.
Traditionally, the space of the state is directly related with territory. However, the
territory is just one little part of the complex construction of a state. In that sent,
the definition of the space should be more comprehensive. Space should be
defining as a camp where power relations take place. The other part of the
term is power. The concept of power is narrower but it defines all the interaction
and construction of the society.
For that reason, the concept of geopolitics capture all the complex power
relation that take place anywhere in the society and, in the same time, define
our existence as society.
 Geopolitics aims to explain geographical changes from political systems, they embrace territorial or power disputes between different
world states, their changes and the countries that have been dominant, the ones which political, economical or cultural power over the
others states had lead several changes all over the world.
The changes in economical systems and development have determined certains geographic aspects too.
The relevant actors in Geopolitics are some European states - Britain, France, Russia (determinants in geopolitics of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries as dominant states), Pivot states by Mackinder definition, Russia (Geographical pivot state (because its extension)
represents threat to the European power balance), India and China (influence over Asia) and United States (power influence).
Geopolitics has been approached in different ways, Canhman affirms that there are techniques to know the social facts of geopolitics.
This can be done by referring to different sources such as: physical or political geography materials, recordings of public office archives
and private institutions, statistics of all types of social data, extensive literature and statistics of geographic characteristics,
meteorological, natural resources, industrial production, exports, imports, traffic and movement facilities.
Another way of analyzing geopolitics is from historical political facts, from human actions, for example, the British and Germans had
been dedicated to studying geopolitics from European civilization in order to find ideas of history that allow explaining expansion of the
European stages.
There are different ways of understand space, for example German geographers and geopoliticians, consider that the world is divided
into pan-regions, more specifically between spheres of economic, cultural and political influence.
To illustrate better, Hasuhofer argues that the division of panregionism is given by agroupations which are ruled by a leading state.
Therefore, the United States had dominion over the North and South America region, Germany had control of Europe, Africa and West
Asia and Japan dominated Central, Eastern and Southern Asia in the context of the end of World War I.
 Our definition of Geopolitics consist in that Geopolitics is a term that is
involved with factors of political and geographical environments, taking
into account this, geopolitics can be defined as a science that studies the
different components resulting from the interactions of the two concepts
previously mentioned. In addition, geopolitics explains the organization
(political, economic, social) and behavior of states in the system, and tries
to study the relationships between them, based on the analysis of spaces
and territories that can define the dynamics of these relations. In this aspect
the political, economic and social factors help to understood the relation
between geopolitics and other factors that influence the development of
dynamics in determinate context.
 Geopolitics, is a discipline that is responsible for interpreting the relationships between
human communities and the space in which these communities are involved. Geopolitics,
therefore, suggests the existence of an influence that the physical spaces can have on the
human communities that inhabit them.
Feeding the field of study of geopolitics, during the 1980, onwards, due to various factors
of world order as they were the two world wars and even the cold war, have emerged
various schools and even ideas that seek to explain Since different approaches the
importance of geopolitics as even diplomatic, commercial and military strategy.
Authors as Mackinder and Spykman have come to sort by "relevant areas" certain parts of
the world, labeling them as the Rimland and the Hearthland, respectively. The study of the
geopolitics has been so extensive that more wing of is robjeto of study of international
relations, has come to mean a field of great importance on the agendas Nations of
various countries. The above due to the status quo by effects of the constant "industrial
revolucon" and globalization, new interests arise and every time resources for the
protection of power or sovereignty, depending on foreign policy that handles each State,
they are exhausted or are modified in favour or against.
 Taking into account that the concept of geopolitics does not have an
appropriate definition or an specific meaning. The present paragraph
tends to collect the main elements of geopolitics, in order to give an
interpretation of the phenomenon. In this order of ideas, geopolitics is the
study that analyzes the relationship between geography factors and
politics. In other ways, geopolitics evidences the strong influence that
geographical factors have in economic, cultural, social and political
aspects, due to the interaction that geopolitics creates between
individuals and spaces.
 Geopolitics is the science that studies the formation of the states taking into
account geographical and socioeconomic characteristics. The principle
object of study is the state seen as the main actor in the international
system. Taking into account that the formation of the states obeys to a
sociological process of cohesion, geopolitics tries to explain the foreign
policy of the states according to their characteristics as a nation. Finally, in
geopolitics we assume that the given geographical characteristics are
able to shape the decision making in political issues. The level of analysis of
this science is the international system, understood as a space where states,
non-governmental organizations, regional organizations of political nature
and private actors interact in order to maximize its benefits taking into
considerations its resources and lacks