Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations.
... And the tearing down of the Iron Curtain had raised a new question in Geopolitics - how far east does the Western world extend? I was commissioned by the BBC to take a road trip through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine to address the question, " Where is the eastern edge of the Western world now? " I went to the hunting lodge in Belarus where, in late 1991, the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, had met his counterparts from Ukraine and Belarus...