Geopolitics Quotes

• Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

  Thomas Friedman

  Home, Behavior, Diplomacy

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• In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

  Pearl S. Buck

  World, Things Change, Geography

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

  Joseph Nye

  Country, People, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

  Kofi Annan

  Communication, Rights, Justice

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Feb 20, 2017

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• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Power, Roles, Gains

  "Afghanistan in the '80s was superpowers' battle over Eurasia - Brzezinski". The RT Interview, www.rt.com. September 21, 2010.

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• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

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• A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

  Rafael Correa

  Play, News, Should

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

  Pascal Lamy

  Inspiring, Unjust, Economic

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• [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Economic Globalization, World

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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Eras, Materialism

  Camille Paglia (2007). “Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems”, p.17, Vintage

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• Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.

  Paul Virilio

  Dominance, Crisis, Emergence

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I've always had an interest in geopolitics and macroeconomics.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Macroeconomics, Interest

  Source: wwd.com

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• In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, Light, Needs

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• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Fashion, America, Issues

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.211, Basic Books

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• The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first, that such individuals would be held accountable if international law was applied without regard to geopolitics, and second, that there is enough ambiguity about the reach of UJ that it inhibits such individuals and conveys an impression of de facto criminality.

  Richard A. Falk

  Reality, Law, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

  Kurt Bills

  Reading, Eye, Order

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• You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for progress, to improve the standard of living of people. But I also think it's a critical issue in geopolitics too.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Views, Issues

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Military, Issues, Impact

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• We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.

  George Brandis

  Player, Australia, Culture

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness in one generation. The biosphere is understood here as what goes from the biosphere to the depths of the ocean 40 miles where all living beings interact with all chemicals to create a very complex choreography that we call "life on earth". That is biosphere that is our indivisible community.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Ocean, Technology, Community

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