"The present volume is a much-revised translation of a collection of essays on Rudolf Kjellen that was originally published in Stockholm in 2014."-- Foreword. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Why Rudolf Kjellen? / Mark Bassin -- Introduction / Ragnar Bjork and Thomas Lunden -- Rudolf Kjellen : academic, publicist, politician / Ragnar Bjork, Bert Edstromand and Thomas Lunden -- Rudolf Kjellen : the Swedish intellectualand political context -- Ragnar Bjork -- Sweden's borders : Kjellen's contribution to social science by defining and applying geopolitics / Claes G. Alvstam andThomas Lunden -- Rudolf Kjellen's great power studies : the editions / Ragnar Bjork -- Rudolf Kjellen's great power studies : examining Germany, USA, Russia, Japan / Ragnar Bjork -- Geopolitics, political geography and the political science irredenta: Kjellen s the state as a form of life / Thomas Lunden -- Kjellen and World War I / Gunnar Falkemark -- The small game in the shadow of the great game: Kjellenian biopolitics between constructivism and realism / Carl Marklund -- Discourse, identity and territoriality: Kjellen's thinking about a European federation of states / Ola Tunander -- Rudolf Kjellen's intellectual impact in Latin America / Andres Rivarola Puntigliano -- Kjellen's legacy: a story of divergent interpretations / Thomas Lunden -- Conclusion. Kjellen's life and work: tensions between opposites / Ragnar Bjork and Thomas Lunden.
Summary:
"Rudolf Kjellen, regularly referred to as "the father of geopolitics," developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. It was an ambitious intellectual project that sought to bring politics into the sphere of social science. Bringing together experts on Kjellen from across the disciplines, Territory, State and Nation explores the century-long international impact, analytical model, and historical theories of a figure immensely influential in his time who is curiously little-known today"-- Provided by publisher.
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