"geopolitical alignment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the positioning or compatibility of a country or group in relation to global political and economic systems. One example of using this phrase could be, "The United States and China are currently in a state of geopolitical alignment, as they work together on various trade agreements and global security issues." Another example could be, "The geopolitical alignment of Middle Eastern countries often shifts due to conflicts and alliances between major world powers."
How the Arab Spring evolves, and how far the protests spread in the Arab world and beyond — as old assumptions about geopolitical alignments are being cast aside — are among the big uncertainties of 2012.
The boundaries are blurring along almost all the key dimensions that defined the core geopolitical alignments of the post-Cold War era, and it may just be the rise of machine learning rivalry that puts the final nail in the coffin of that old order.
As nations develop, geopolitical alignments appear to become more pronounced.
In addition, Italy's geopolitical alignments have often been at odds with Saudi Arabia's.
The evolving geopolitical alignments in the region have potentially far-reaching geostrategic consequences for India, and New Delhi is eager to blunt growing Chinese and Pakistani influence over the island.
While China, Russia, and Australia have expressed their support for the Sri Lankan government by denouncing foreign interference in Sri Lanka's internal affairs, the UK, Canada, and India have signaled their support for Washington's resolution, illustrating the evolving geopolitical alignments at stake.
This also suggests that digital geopolitics should not be seen as a layer superimposed on conventional geopolitics, but as a major geopolitical force itself that will create its own new alignments among new actors, and not only states.
A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America's hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.
"Turkey likes to flirt with the KRG, but the relationship has not been consummated," says Dodge. "It is fun for Ankara to use Erbil to beat Baghdad, and to use the Kurds to weaken Maliki's alignment with Iran, but ultimately this goes against the main geopolitical priority for countries in the region, which is building strong, centralised and independent states".
And a fully modernized and capable one that was long brewing under the surface, waiting for the moment with geopolitical pressure shifted a subset of largely Sunni-driven interests into a powerful alignment.
