Geopolitical Goals (Think Before You Act)

Geopolitical goals are the goals, roles, and traits of a nation that dominate the geopolitical policies of it. Every nation has its geopolitical goals, from America to Brazil to China to Denmark to Egypt to France to Germany to Hungary to India to Japan to Kenya to Lebanon to Mexico to the Netherlands to Oman to Pakistan to Qatar to Russia to Saudi Arabia to Tanzania to the Ukraine to Vietnam to Yemen to Zimbabwe. (And yes, those are all OTL nations). The existence of geopolitical goals is important to a nation in its role on the role stage, though a nation's efficiency depends on the ruler, weak or strong. The goals often allows the political stage of a country to be predictable and comprehendable. Each country often has certain traits, roles, and policies that shapes its worldwide standing. Geopolitical goals often shape people's reaction to domestic and international events.

For example, in OTL, regardless of the different rulers of the British Empire during its years, it follows the same goal of being the main superpower in the world. Rulers would always defend itself and expand into territories to compete with other nations for control of areas of the world. Though different rulers would have decided who to conquer and who not to conquer, its goals of being a world superpower would always be the same regardless. They would still try to outcompete other nations in the world stage.

While anything in history can effect the geopolitical goals of a nation, only certain events have the power to do this. It may seem that history has the ability to shape them, but this is just only a misunderstanding. Small events, natural or man-made, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, oil spills, or riots, had an increased role in effecting wolrd and historical events. Some people like Karl Marx and books like the Communist Manifesto, do not have an effect on geopolitical goals, but rather an outcome of human behaviors, goals, and worries. Sometimes, when well-supported leaders make reforms, they often ignore the nation's geopolitical goals, but sometimes, it can slightly change current ones. However, only foreign interventions, civil disorders, revolutions, and other history-changing events such as the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the lost of the 13 American Colonies, and the French Revolution can all have an effect on a nation's ideology and its geopolitical goals.

The study of these kinds of goals is very useful when knowing either the future of the nation or the world. Many people have used geopolitical goals as a method for short-term future events in in international stage. An example of one oe these people is George Friedman, who wrote "The Next 100 Yeras" which describes the world after 100 years.