Making Sense of History. Territory, State and Nation : : The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén /

Making Sense of History. Territory, State and Nation : : The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén / / ed. by Thomas Lundén, Ragnar Björk.

Rudolf Kjellén, 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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Alvstam, Claes G.,
Bassin, Mark,
Björk, Ragnar,
Edström, Bert,
Falkemark, Gunnar,
Lundén, Thomas,
Marklund, Carl,
Puntigliano, Andrés Rivarola,
Tunander, Ola,
HerausgeberIn:
Björk, Ragnar,
Lundén, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 41
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword. Why Rudolf Kjellén?
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Rudolf Kjellén: Academic, Publicist, Politician
  • Chapter 2. Rudolf Kjellén: The Swedish Intellectual and Political Context
  • Chapter 3. Sweden’s Borders: Kjellén’s Contribution to Social Science by Defining and Applying Geopolitics
  • Chapter 4. Rudolf Kjellén’s Great Power Studies: The Editions
  • Chapter 5. Rudolf Kjellén’s Great Power Studies: Examining Germany, USA, Russia, Japan
  • Chapter 6. Geopolitics, Political Geography and the Political Science Irredenta: Kjellén’s The State as a Form of Life
  • Chapter 7. Kjellén and the First World War
  • Chapter 8. The Small Game in the Shadow of the Great Game: Kjellénian Biopolitics between Constructivism and Realism
  • Chapter 9. Discourse, Identity and Territoriality: Kjellén’s Thinking about a European Federation of States
  • Chapter 10. Rudolf Kjellén’s Intellectual Impact in Latin America
  • Chapter 11. Kjellén’s Legacy: A Story of Divergent Interpretations
  • Conclusion. Kjellén’s Life and Work: Tensions between Opposites
  • Index

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