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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.

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  • adjective of or relating to geostrategy

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Examples

  • When the United States announces a serious conservation policy that reduces fossil fuel consumption -- and with President Barack Obama this will happen -- Moscow could find its long term geostrategic position increasingly eroded.

    Peter Schechter: What Next in Russia? Peter Schechter 2010

  • When the United States announces a serious conservation policy that reduces fossil fuel consumption -- and with President Barack Obama this will happen -- Moscow could find its long term geostrategic position increasingly eroded.

    What Next in Russia? Peter Schechter 2010

  • The divided Korean peninsula will remain one of the world's most pressing long-term geostrategic issues.

    Daniel Wagner: Kim Jong Il's Gamble Daniel Wagner 2010

  • When the United States announces a serious conservation policy that reduces fossil fuel consumption -- and with President Barack Obama this will happen -- Moscow could find its long term geostrategic position increasingly eroded.

    Peter Schechter: What Next in Russia? 2010

  • More so, they entail intricate long-term geostrategic considerations vis-à-vis Central and South Asian energy politics.

    Pye Ian: Bishop to Queen 4: Recapturing Iran on the Grand Chessboard 2009

  • If that assumption is incorrect, then far from being a vital "geostrategic" region, focusing our nation's resources on controlling the Mideast and Persian gulf will prove to be a costly strategic blunder.

    Discourse.net: Valuable Resource: A Torture Timeline 2009

  • Ron Suskind, in his fine book The One Percent Doctrine, puts what is essentially the same point in "geostrategic" terms, reporting that, in meetings of the National Security Council in the months after the 9/11 attacks, the main concern "was to make an example of Saddam Hussein, to create a demonstration model to guide the behavior of anyone with the temerity to acquire destructive weapons or, in any way, flout the authority of the United States."

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Learning the ancient board game of wei qi, known in the U.S. as Go, can teach non-Chinese how to see the geostrategic "board" the same way that Chinese leaders do, he says.

    What Kind of Game Is China Playing? Keith Johnson 2011

  • To the delight of Western observers and the horror of some of his own generals, Gorbachev launched into an elaborate geostrategic striptease.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Indeed, "any state in a post-abolition world that tried to bully its way to some geostrategic objective with a nuclear club" would become "the planet's greatest pariah."

    Lawrence Wittner: Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World Lawrence Wittner 2011

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