geopolitics: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	geopolitik

Topics

Lebensraum political science development theory elite theory Power rule impossibility theorem state monopoly on violence

Key People

Halford Mackinder

Halford Mackinder

British political geographer

Haushofer

Karl Haushofer

German officer and political geographer

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Rudolf Kjellén

Swedish political scientist