Thus Hammurabi ascended to the throne as the king of a minor kingdom in the midst of a complex geopolitical situation.

Several other British attacks took place in the Caribbean with little consequence on the geopolitical situation in the Atlantic.

* Cold war ( general term ), a geopolitical situation, the kind of which describes the aforementioned struggle

The geopolitical situation allowed for a fixed military strategy.

In the post-World War II geopolitical situation, with two rival predatory political blocks, their theories also achieved wide international appeal as a " third way ", i. e. a middle way between a capitalist economy and a communist economy.

The Treaty stipulated that no tax could be charged for Portuguese wines ( but see below ) exported to England or English textiles exported to Portugal, regardless of the geopolitical situation of each of the two nations ( this was to make sure that England would still accept Portuguese wine in periods when not at war with France ).

Whatever initial misgivings Louis Philippe's government may have had about occupying Algeria, the geopolitical realities of the situation created by the 1830 intervention argued strongly for reinforcing the French presence there.

Relations between the U. S. and the Soviet Union ( later Russia ) within the UN have evolved in step with the larger geopolitical situation between the two powers.

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “ Planet People ”, and gathering at prehistoric sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

The chaos of the Korean War and the geopolitical situation of the Cold War effectively diminished any opportunity for Koreans to highlight the Gando issue.

When the Japanese occupation of Korea ended in August 1945, the Soviet administration in the north of Korea and the American administration in the south of Korea hampered any unified Korean claim to Gando, and after the Korean War and the geopolitical situation it created, no serious Korean claim to Gando was made by either North or South Korea.

While these traditions are distinct and at times very different, there are common themes that relate to Canadians ' shared history and geopolitical situation in North America and the world.

A suitable geopolitical situation is not the only requirement for hegemony.

The Agreement on Adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( also known as the adapted CFE treaty ) is a revision of the original treaty and was signed during the November 1999 Istanbul summit and took into account the different geopolitical situation of the post-Cold War era by setting national instead of bloc-based limits on conventional armed forces.

This situation was attributed to an economic downturn, increasing concerns over the U. S. federal budget deficit, and fears about the unsettled global geopolitical environment.

In 1998, the conference adopted its current name to reflect the geopolitical situation and remains the only Chinese episcopal conference sanctioned by the Vatican.

The fall of the last Kagan with its capital in Ötüken, which dominated for three centuries, created a completely new geopolitical situation in all Central Asia.

The geopolitical situation depicted is in fact a curious reversal of that in the Second World War.

On account of its strategic geopolitical situation, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, it has been frequently attacked by invaders including Ilamids ( Elamites ), Umayyads, Abbasids as well as the Portuguese and British, whose ravages are still evident.

The term was coined in the Habsburg Monarchy after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ( 1774 ) in order to designate an area on the lower Danube with a common geopolitical situation.

Their reminiscences are used both for comic effect and to show how the geopolitical situation has changed, but also how nostalgia has blotted out the horrors of war.

On the other side, the weakness of Russia and Finland opened an opportunity for geopolitical changes in Fennoscandia that would benefit Sweden.

According to the Swedish propaganda the motive for the move was humanitarian factors, but the true reasons were geopolitical.

Another consequence of this was the French loss of geopolitical interests in the region ; this meant an alliance with Israel was no longer of any use for French diplomacy.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

In other Muslim countries, blame for and wrath against the seizure was directed not against fundamentalists, but against Islamic fundamentalism's foremost geopolitical enemy – the United States.

Not only his social and economic views guided the country's socio-economic course for a long time, his use of the imagery, ' a yam between two boulders ' in Nepal's geopolitical context, formed the principal guideline of the country's foreign policy for future centuries.

Nazi policy aimed to destroy the Soviet Union as a political entity in accordance with the geopolitical Lebensraum idea (" Drang nach Osten ") for the benefit of future generations of the " Nordic Aryan master race ".

Panama was part of the Spanish Empire for over 300 years ( 1513 – 1821 ) and her fortunes fluctuated with the geopolitical importance of the isthmus to the Spanish crown.

Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.

Space exploration has often been used as a proxy competition for geopolitical rivalries such as the Cold War.

As a means of preventing future world wars, the United Nations was formed ; however, competition between the two new superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, resulted in the Cold War, which would dominate geopolitical life for the next 45 years.

* Widespread use of petroleum in industry — both as a chemical precursor to plastics and as a fuel for the automobile and airplane — led to the vital geopolitical importance of petroleum resources.

The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia ( for endonyms, see below ), is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea.

It has, over the past decade, provided the geopolitical framework for widespread economic growth and the spread of American principles of liberty and democracy.

Huntington's geopolitical model, especially the structures for North Africa and Eurasia, is largely derived from the " Intermediate Region " geopolitical model first formulated by Dimitri Kitsikis and published in 1978.

Such suggestions were intended to encourage certain non-Russian nationalism and to promote German interests for the benefit of future Aryan generations, in accord with geopolitical " Lebensraum im Osten " plans.

In China, during the Warring States Era ( 476 – 221 BC ), the Qin State created the Chengkuo Canal for geopolitical advantage over its local rivals.

In the 1990s he formulated the strategic case for buttressing the independent statehood of Ukraine, partially as a means to ending a resurgence of the Russian Empire, and to drive Russia toward integration with the West, promoting instead " geopolitical pluralism " in the space of the former Soviet Union.

The consensus among most citizens of the PRC seems to be one of support for reunification by all means necessary, as much for reasons of national pride as for economic or geopolitical reasons.

Poindexter faced criticism from the media and some politicians about the Policy Analysis Market project, a theoretical prediction market that would have rewarded participants for accurately predicting geopolitical trends in the Middle East.

Bombing limitations were imposed by President Lyndon Johnson for geopolitical reasons, as he surmised that bombing Soviet and Chinese ships in port and killing Soviet advisers would bring the Soviets more directly into the war and destabilize the European Cold War.