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The term geopolitics basically refers to the political significance of geography in the analysis of international relations and thus takes geographical expression of the world as a political construct.

A fairly recent phenomenon, international relations has been understood mainly through the lens of geopolitics and the geopolitical connotations of the international events and developments for decades.

It is fair to argue that geopolitics has served as the basis and foundation that helped IR scholars better understand and explain the political aspects of the world and conceptualize the interstate affairs.

Geopolitical references in the study of international relations have been the norm in many scholarly accounts.

Early theoretical premises seeking to offer a generalizable framework for international politics have heavily relied on assumptions of geopolitics and geopolitical considerations as a whole.

Which of the statements above related to the dynamics of geopolitics in a changing environment of global politics and its relevance to the premises of globalization are correct?

The determining factor for struggle in Samuel Huntington’s theory is ... .

Which the following options correctly completes the sentence above?

Which of the followings is argued to be the most important (if not the only) actor of the international political system among internatonal relations scholars?

Which one of the following terms refers to a shift from emphasis upon state’s own national security concerns to the protection of the security of the individuals in international politics?

What major event did third-generation geopolitics emerge in the years that followed?

What is the field which transforms geopolitical visions into strategic plans?

I. Natural resources

II. Climatic characteristics

III. Proximity to conflict areas

IV. Neighbourhood with prosperous nations

Which of the above can be regarded as factors that contribute to the geopolitical inventory?

How did Karl Haushofer define geopolitics?

Which of the following is TRUE about the United States?

I.Since the early 1990s until 2008, it dictated international politics.

II.Until 2008, the rise of China was not central to American strategic considerations.

III.It occupied Iraq in 2003.

IV. During the wars in the Balkans and the Caucasus during the 1990s, it decreased its military spending.

Who was the author of this statement: “Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland. Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world”?

1. Since the second half of the nineteenth century till the onset of the Cold War era, geopolitics was mainly an imperial exercise undertaken by great powers.
2. Mackinder, a geographer in the United Kingdom, is considered to be the first important geopolitical thinker.
3. Mackinder’s heartland theory assumes that the particular power that controls the Eurasian landmass would eventually control the global politics and master the universe.
4. In Mackinder’s characterization, land powers are more likely to lay claim to regional and global hegemony than maritime powers.
5. From this perspective all great powers of the time were in a geopolitical competition to ensure that their rivals do not possess full control of the Eurasian landmass.

Which of the statements above related to geopolitics in early stages?

Which of the below is not one of the new strands of geopolitics that are discussed today?

Which of the below is an example of intangible sources of power?

What was the first sign of the US's Eurasian geostrategy?

What is modern nation state is also called to make distinction between the modern nation state and the states before the arrival of nation state? 

In the revised version of the definition of Heartland, which of the following is NOT included?

Whom does Turkey try to leverage its transit country role in its relations with?

Which of the following is not one of the components of geoculture?