Analyzing the Impact of Geography on Nations and Geopolitical Dynamics

This essay delves into the complex relationship between geography and the destiny of nations, examining how geographical factors influence strategic, political, and economic advantages. It discusses how a nation's economic development is intrinsically linked to its geographical location and natural resources, often leading to international exploitation. The essay also explores how geography affects transportation, trade, and the overall well-being of a nation's populace, considering the impact of climate, disease, and agricultural practices. It argues that while geography plays a significant role, it is not the sole determinant of a nation's success, emphasizing the importance of political stability, social diversity, and effective environmental policies in shaping a nation's progress. Ultimately, the essay suggests a shift from focusing solely on geographical determinism to considering the dynamic interactions between people and their environments.

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The statement that shows “geography is destiny” can be termed as one of the oldest
theories of geopolitics. This is not just directed to a deterministic idea, but also highlights the fact
that there are particular geographic locations that benefits from the traits of strategy, politics and
economy. Such countries also get the advantage of being coveted by other nations. The limitation
of the economic development of a nation is serves as the actual limitation of any nation. To
provide a better understanding, the development of a particular nation is thwarted if its natural
resources are actually damaged. For international organizations, they plan to exploit the natural
resources or raw materials of a given nation if it means growth1. The economy gives a better
understanding towards the geographical location of a nation. This can also be a benefit along
with a severe cost from the populace when this is considered a financial arrangement by the
state. This financial lucrative offer gives a better understanding of the economic condition
present in a nation. The nearby nations of channels are also affected political consequences. The
nations are the more politically stable can improve in terms of economy than others. When these
factors come into place, a developed nation can preoccupy itself with concerns related to the
study of people with the physical environment where they settle along with the socio-economic
development in the geographical pattern of a nation. It can be said that geography forms the
essentials that defines a nation.
From a geographical standpoint, the topography, currents, tides, wind patterns of a river
is a determining factors related to transport of goods2. In the Industrial revolution, there were
many countries that landlocked by superior countries because of their resources. Technology
helps the temperate agriculture and industry to progress rather than the land itself. By improving
1 Margulis, M.E., 2014. Trading out of the global food crisis? The World Trade Organization and the geopolitics of
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2 Haverluk, T.W., Beauchemin, K.M. and Mueller, B.A., 2014. The three critical flaws of critical geopolitics:
Towards a neo-classical geopolitics. Geopolitics, 19(1), pp.19-39

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the transportation infrastructure, a nation can improve its geographical isolation. Improved roads,
ports and paths allow modes of transport that would be beneficial for the world market as well as
the people3. However, it should be noted that a country can only derive its full benefit from the
investment that is made from trade and the means of macroeconomic policies. This is one of the
contributing factors for the people that they can control their own geography. The countries that
have high and humid temperature are normally the ones who are economically unstable than the
others, these include many Asian and Middle Eastern countries. From the standpoint of
economic based changes, this emphasizes the work effort of the people4. There are changes from
tropical factors; these include malaria that is a very common yet dangerous disease. These are the
causes for adverse health consequences and affect the production of labour to a high extent. This
happens due to the fact the temperate climate can cause a significant level of advantage over the
regions of the world that is filled with tropical and semitropical climate. Because of
characteristically useless farming in the tropics, the soil is thin to the point that they can't adjust
the supplements and accentuation the way that how the heavy rains dissolves the soil5. Anyway
this includes a few merits in the contention, it is a result of the possession structure of the land
and its motivators credited for agriculturists by the legislature and the establishment they live.
Having numerous species that are sufficiently competent to be locally appealing for social orders
make the change from an assembly to an agriculturist. As the populace develops caves in
numerous nations around the world, this enables the choice to work exchange and urbanize and
make critical political advancement. In zones where cultivating is the primary wellspring of pay
3 Mead, W.R., 2014. The return of geopolitics: The revenge of the revisionist powers. Foreign Aff., 93, p.69.
4 Dwyer, M.B., 2014. Micro-geopolitics: Capitalising security in Laos’s golden quadrangle. Geopolitics, 19(2),
pp.377-405.
5 Sempa, F., 2017. Geopolitics: from the Cold War to the 21st Century. Routledge.

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innovation really surpassed its situation as the significant advancement6. Hence it very well may
be said that geology alone does not decide the thickness of any country or state. Despite the
addition of geographical hypothesis, the world cannot explain the effects of climate of disease
alone. If this factor is used for United States and Canada or even Mexico, what separates the
countries is not the geographical region, politics or even the climate. There is no clear
explanation for the North and the Southern regions; another example of this is West and East
Germany.
As per history, there is no straightforward or complex association in the middle of the
climate and the geology that identifies with financial achievement of a nation. The American
tropics were considerably more extravagant than the mild zones that gave an undeniable actuality
that destitution is not a conspicuous reality. The more prominent wealth in these nations really
demonstrates an inversion of fortune to what it resembled previously7. Anyway this is not
identified with topography and the manner in which the whole nation was colonized. The tenants
of South Asia the individuals who are situated in the Indian subcontinent are prosperous than the
general population in different parts of Asia. This is more than the general population the
individuals who occupy the Australian subcontinents. Tropical atmosphere causes issues and
high rate of newborn child mortality anyway they are not the reason who a nation is financially
poor. Infection can be the consequence of destitution and the administration being not able
embrace the general well-being measures to lessen these issues. In the mid nineteenth century,
the European nations were extremely unfortunate anyway the administration dealt with the
speculation to enhance the sewage framework to improve and utilitarian clean water. Thus
6 Ikenberr, G.J., 2014. The illusion of geopolitics: The enduring power of the liberal order. Foreign Aff., 93, p.80.
7 Cohen, S.B., 2014. Geopolitics: the geography of international relations. Rowman & Littlefield.

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improving the wellbeing by large and decreases the illnesses the nation8. It ought to be noticed
that the financial accomplishment for nations like England were not because of the enhanced
wellbeing and future however because of the way that it was one of the principle elements of the
past monetary and political change. What counts significantly more than a shape of the nation are
its dispositions and approaches towards social assorted variety and the treatment of indigenous
people groups and how people are involved inside powerful biological change. In a world looked
with complex natural difficulties, individuals are very much served to invest less energy
considering the state of nations, and additional time contemplating the communications between
assorted people and situations at all scales.
8 Smith, S.J. and Pain, R., 2016. Fear: Critical geopolitics and everyday life. In Fear: Critical geopolitics and
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