geopolitical

From geo- (“geographical”) +‎ political.

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geopolitical (comparative more geopolitical, superlative most geopolitical)

1. Of or relating to geopolitics.
   • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎^[1]:

     Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.

   • 2025 April 1, Editorial Board, “Why the seismic giving to Myanmar?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Call it boasting or benevolence, however, the response to the tragedy illustrates the era of “disaster diplomacy,” or the use of foreign aid for influence in a geopolitical competition.

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