Mr. Mesfin said that it was one thing for the United States to engage in a geopolitical struggle, and another to feed Ethiopia's hungry.

One of them was the Bug Pit, a way station of history where a particularly gruesome episode in the vast geopolitical struggle known as the Great Game was played out.

The first was the geopolitical struggle for influence between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War.

The offer has drawn fire from the United States, but the uproar reflects a wider geopolitical struggle over oil.

The War is for the TAPI Pipeline and the geopolitical struggle for natural resources in Central Asia.

"Today, only the most obtuse jingoist views Vietnam as anything other than a geopolitical struggle with total irrelevance for the lives of average Americans, particularly those who fought and died," he said.

The book further claims to be an inside account of what the pope is doing to win this geopolitical struggle and how he played an instrumental role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain.

No geopolitical struggle is under way for Burma, he noted.

This is a move by Beijing to cement a stronger position in the geopolitical struggle for power over the energy trade routes along the Indian ocean.

I therefore feel that the way forward is through serious and dispassionate study of the political and geopolitical struggle.