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.

Purpose of the Page
The purpose of this page is to explain the goepolitical goals of the Big Four nations (and to an extent, other nations) and also explain how they were formed and the effect on the world stage. However, many nations do have similar geopolitical goals which only difference is that if their specificity. The reason for this is that the obvious, main, central goals of these countries are all similar (survival, expansion, etc.) and the ideology of this would stick with that nation for the rest of its existence. In fact, those kinds of goals have been around all kinds of societies for millenima.

However, there is one thing that people reading this should know: not all of the nations were able to follow all of their geopolitical goals the way they wanted it to be. Only the Big Four (the most powerful nations, which are France, America, China, and Japan) are able to do so.

An OTL Example: USSR

 * 1) Spread Communism throughout the world to ignite a worldwide revolution
 * 2) Prevent America from threatening its interests in Communist Europe
 * 3) Industrialize the country to make it prosper
 * 4) Exploit its allies for natural resources for its economy
 * 5) Eliminate capitalism and any other oppostion within the country

France
Since 481, France has been one of the oldest European nations, which endured history of war, expansion, good and bad rulers, periods of change, and terror. Regardless of the enviornment France faced, it managed to survive throughout history. Since its expansion into North America and Europe during the early modern era, France was a power to be reckoned with. During the age of Napoleon and since then, however, France officially had firm control on all of Europe, making it the most powerful nation in the world. The Empire has very strong geopolitical goals that have been followed throughout its history. Also, the Emperor's (a.k.a. Napoleon) extensive power makes his personal ideology, beliefs, and opinions an important part of the Empire's power and policies. While the big decisions of the empire are very predictable, small-scale decisions is also noticeable in the Empire.

1. Protect Paris from any threat 

2. Hold complete control of the Mediterranean 

3. Maintain the ethnic groups and stability in the Empire 

4. Domination of all other countries in the world and maintain the Empire's borders 

5. Maintain power on every continent 

6. Domination of control of Outer Space 

7. Domination of the global trade, finance, and the economy

United States
During the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, Americans have struggled to defend the beliefs of liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, Americans still have that sense of spirit they had since the 18th Century. Americans are proud of being the beacon of democracy that has spread to many other countries worldwide. Since their victory after the War of 1814 and the expansion into the Western Hemisphere and Pacific, the country quickly became one of the world's most dominant. Since the 20th Century, the country has aimed to be a major player on the world stage, making it the second most powerful nation after France.