地缘政治学经历湮灭、复苏之后，自70年代以来在西方获得了广泛的发展。而在我国它却长期受到多方面的束缚，其中包括认识上的混乱。作者在文章中首先从地缘政治学的历史及其汉语翻译的角度，以及从地缘政治与地理的关系，澄清了“地缘”的概念。接着阐述了其研究内容，诸如地缘政治、地缘经济、地缘文化、地缘战略等。最后，对“地缘优势”一词的概念和内函作了进一步的探讨，并指出把“地缘优势”与通常的地理优势区别开来，具有重要的现实意义。

After undergoing annihilating and reviving, the geopolitics has taken large development in the west world since the 1970s. However, it has been fettered longtime at divers quarters in China, among them including the confusion of understanding. In this paper the auther clarifies first the concept of “geo” in the word of geopolitics from the angles of geopolitical history and China’s interpretation of this word, from the relationship between geopolitics and geography. Then the auther expounds its research content, such as geopolitics, geoeconomics, geoculture, geostrategy and so on. Finally, the auther probes further the concept and intension of the word “geosuperiority” and points out that differentiating the “geosuperiority” from the general geographic superiority has an important practical significance.