Geopolitics
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Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them; it may also focus on two other
Division of the world according to Haushofer's pan-regions doctrine
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, by Abraham Ortelius, World, 1572
Cold War
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The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc. It b
Geopolitics
…to continue the United States' geopolitical focus on Eurasia and, particularly Russia, despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Both continued their influence on geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, writing books on the subject in the 1990s—Diplomacy and The Grand Chessboard…
Remains of the "Iron Curtain" in the Czech Republic, 2014
American C-47s unloading at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Blockade
President Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty with guests in the Oval Office
Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel sworn into the newly founded Bundeswehr by Theodor Blank in November 1955