“The geopolitical vision is never innocent. It is always a wish that presents itself as an analysis” (Kearns, 2008). Evaluate this statement using examples to illustrate your answer. Geopolitics is a discourse that explains and describes the individual ways in which the world's territorial powers act, the way they are formed and the way their citizens experience them. The history of modern geopolitics is the history of America and its hegemony, with the decline of the great powers of the imperial era and the rise of the United States as the world's leading economic and military power can be seen like the history of the 20th century. As the new century dawns, America is still the hegemon, but the rise of China and the awakening of the Russian Bear will once again push America to defend its vision for the future. Geopolitical visions are ways of thinking, ordering and organizing the world, the attribution of roles to actors and spaces on a global chessboard. The goal of those involved in the political game is often to control how the public perceives global political reality and to use this control to promote their goals and objectives on the world stage. Popular geopolitics is perhaps the view most people are familiar with. the media presentation of geopolitical events and their actors. This is seen very clearly during any crisis: for example, the current situation in Ukraine is presented to the Russian people as a struggle for the country's freedom by its domestic media, while Western media portray it as an act of aggression. Russia is an interesting example in the field of geopolitics. For more than 30 years, the Cold War paradigm defined the global stage, influencing everything from domestic and foreign policy, to film, to print..... The number of actors regarding the geopolitical vision , but the fundamental actions and concepts behind it will always remain. Sources: O' Tuathail, G., Dalby, S and Routledge, P (eds) (2006) The Geopolitics Reader (2nd edition), Routledge, London. Dittmer, J (2010) Popular culture and geopolitics: popular culture, geopolitics and identity, Rowman & LittlefieldDodds, K (2007) Geopolitics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press (chapters 5 and 6)Dodds, K (2005) Global geopolitics: a critical introduction, Pearson, HarlowJameson, F. (1995) The geopolitical aesthetics: cinema and space in the world system. Indiana University Press, Kearns, G (2003). “Imperial geopolitics”. A companion to political geography: 173-187.Rosaldo, R. (1994) Subjectivity in social analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.