Basic of Political Science Asg: Relationships between Political Science and World Geography, November 4th 2009

The Relationship between Political Science and World Geography

Political Science and World Geography are two things which can not be separated. Those two are most likely sustaining each other. Political Science without World Geography is blind and World Geography without Political Science is lame. Before we go any further, I would like to give information about those two:
Political Science is a branch of science which can be defined as “a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior”. And World Geography is “a branch of science which can be defined as “the study of world geographical characteristics from many different aspects”.
These two branches of science are always coming after another. These are two of many facts why there is a strong relationship between them:
1. The major discussions of Political Science deal with geographical terms such as: The condition of Japan which has very limited resources has driven it to many major wars in East and Southeast Asia to get the resources from the defeated countries. Another example is the Singapore; this country depends on another country in the matters of water, foods and any raw materials. This condition drives Singapore to be such a nice country to another in the term of foreign policy.
2. The geographical condition of certain countries needs to be justified with its foreign or domestic policies. Brunei Darussalam is a good example for this point, this country is small with a small number of citizens and abundant resources makes this country more exclusive than any other country in Southeast Asia.

Political Science is needed to study how a country which has certain geographical condition can exploit it as well as possible. So finally, the relations between these two are real and the implementation can be seen in our daily life nowadays.