Editing Geostrategy (section)

==Theory and methodology==

As a science or science-based political practice geostrategy uses factual and [[empirical analysis]],<ref name="DeiniolJones">Deiniol Jones, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1C7pAAAAIAAJ Cosmopolitan Mediation?: Conflict Resolution and the Oslo Accords]'', Manchester University Press, 1999, p. 43</ref> theoretical formulations in geostrategy usually heavily rely on empirical base although [[fact]]s-[[Value (ethics)|value]]s relations  or conclusions are differently observed by different and/or competitive geostrategic approaches.<ref name="DeiniolJones"/> Geostrategic conceptions that stem from the theory become the base for the countries' foreign and international policies.<ref>Andrew S. Erickson and Lyle J. Goldstein, <nowiki>[</nowiki>Xu Qi<nowiki>]</nowiki>, "21世纪初海上地缘战略与中国海军的发展" [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Maritime+geostrategy+and+the+development+of+the+Chinese+navy+in+the+...-a0156364589 Maritime Geostrategy and the Development of the Chinese Navy in the Early 21st Century], 中国军事科学 <nowiki>[</nowiki>China Military Science<nowiki>]</nowiki> (Vol. 17, No. 4) 2004, pp. 75–81, Naval War College Review Vol. 59, No. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 46–67</ref> Geostrategic conceptions have also historically been acquired or even inherited from one country to another due to common history, relations between the countries, culture and even propaganda.<ref>Saw Swee-Hock, Sheng Lijun, Chin Kin Wah, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hsFCNjxI0P8C&dq=%22geostrategic%20conception%22&pg=PA136 Asean-China Relations: Realities and Prospects]'', Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005, pp.136–137</ref>

The geostrategy of location include river valleys, inland sea, world ocean, world island, and so on. For instance, the start of Western civilization was located in the river valleys of the [[Nile]] in Egypt and the [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]] in Mesopotamia. The Nile and Tigris and Euphrates not only provided the fertile soil for crop production, but also allowed for the floods that taxed the ingenuity of the inhabitants. The climate of the area was conducive to an existence based primarily upon agriculture. The rivers also provided the avenues of trade in a period when muscles of man and the winds of the sky were the motive power of ships. The river valleys became a unifying factor in the political development of the people.<ref>Fifield, Russell H. (The Journal of geography, Vol.- No.-, [1944]) [SSCI, SCOPUS]</ref>