Geopolitics is a distinct and fast-growing branch of geography. It is characterized as one of the geographical specialties that addresses existing problems on the political map at various local, national, international, and global levels alike. It aims to understand human political behavior by linking and analyzing rapidly evolving political interactions. The constant movement of geopolitics has led some to call it the "illegitimate offspring of geography," a characteristic it may share with branches of economic geography. Geopolitics remains the prominent, rapidly developing specialty in line with developments on the political map, as long as the state is the unit of study in this field, corresponding to the region in general geographical studies.

The state is a human formation that is not static, regardless of the length of time, and is bound to undergo fundamental changes in its internal policies. Geopolitics is concerned with the political behavior between states in conditions of both peace and war. The state—as the unit of study—is the root that connects geopolitics with other branches of social geography, such as population geography and urban geography. The state is a group of rulers and ruled interacting within a spatial unit with its own conditions and components, leading it to adopt behavior that expresses the hopes of its population on one hand, and is proportional to its capabilities and circumstances on the other.

• Weight: 0.95 kg
• Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
• ISBN: 978-9957-12-369-7