2. What is Geopolitics? the art and practice of using political power over a given territory. the term has applied primarily to the impact of geography on politics, but its usage has evolved over the past century to encompass a wider connotation.
3. Turkey-Marching East and West The Bosphorus bridge opened in 1973 on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Turkish republic Turkey occupies a space so vital that it destroys the idea of distinct continents Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine empire for eleven centuries, then Istanbul. Turkish Flag
4. Egypt Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 marked the beginning of the modern subjugation of the Arab world. The Nile flows south to north, through Luxor. The Maghreb and Mashreq regions take their names from their positions west and east of the Egyptian Nile. Map of Egypt
5. Russia-The Russia That Was Russia has two vast Asiatic zones which are Siberia and the far east, together are five times larger than European Russia. Much of the Russian countryside today is a “world turned on its head, inhabited by people abandoned by their government and fending for themselves” Russia’s labile borders have stretched and contracted by thousands of miles. The Brown Bear is a symbol of Russia.
6. Serbia-The House in the Road Europe’s efforts in the early 1990s to prevent the splintering of the Balkans weren’t promising. Belgrade had been destroyed and rebuilt no fewer than forty times over the past two millennia. ZoranDjindjic, the regions first democratically elected leader since WWII, was gunned down in 2003 by forces loyal to the homicidal strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Sava river in Belgrade
