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By geopolitics we mean the description and analysis of various actions reflecting the desire of a state or a system of government to project and extend its power in the international order, starting with its direct neighbors, then in a second step through ensuring a growing influence on other parts of the world. Power can be defined here as the satisfaction of material interests, such as the imposition of trade imbalances and the direct or indirect exploitation of the material wealth and human resources of other nations. To attain this satisfaction, a powerful state must also impose its political or even military pressure on the other states that it is able to include in its area of influence and domination. In this quest for power, it is useful to instrumentalize religion, and few states have shied away from doing this. In fact, the creation of transnational religious affinities and the establishment of centers of religious power subject to a hierarchy—which can be official or diffuse and indirect—centered around the dominant state, are the favored instruments of power.