The role of geopolitics in the analysis and interpretation of the contemporary world

In this article, the author examines the three distinct stages of the evolution of geopolitics, which are increasingly asserted in higher education institutions, but also in public and media discourse as an authentic method of expertizing the reality of international life and relations between states. Based on a vast theoretical material on the topic, the author distinguishes the characteristic aspects of geopolitics at each of the stages, aud determines, as a priority, its contribution in the investigation of the contemporary world in the conditions of the information society, in which an essential role in promoting national interests of the geostrategic issues of the state, of collaboration and peaceful coexistence between peoples is up to the mass media. Based on the examination of the theme, the article proposes solutions regarding the deepening of the conceptual-methodological research of geopolitics, and the development of a fruitful and lasting collaboration between geopolitics and the mass media, in order to bring geoinformation closer to the public.