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Geopolitics, the State, and Political Science: Contextualizing Rudolf Kjellén, Founder of Geopolitics

by Peter Davidsen
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032788630
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 278
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 595 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Human Geography

Geopolitics, the State, and Political Science offers the first comprehensive intellectual history of Rudolf Kjell�n (1864-1922), the founder of geopolitics who formulated a systematic organic theory of the state. Kjell�n played a decisive role in shaping both the institutional emergence of political science and the conceptual evolution of international relations and political theory.

Through extensive archival research and employing the contextualist methodology of the Cambridge school, this book discovers and rethinks the contexts in which Kjell�n's work developed. It situates his theories within early twentieth-century academic debates over political science and its emancipation from law, history, and philosophy. The work demonstrates how the foundations of political science were forged through concrete academic disputes, methodological controversies, and institutional struggles, while reaffirming the enduring value of historical contextualization for understanding both the origins and contested legacies of the modern state.

Much more than a biography, this study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of political theory, international relations, and the social sciences. It is of interest to historians, political scientists, geographers, political philosophers, and international lawyers.

Dr. Peter Davidsen is a research advisor at the University of Copenhagen and a scholar of geopolitics, political thought, and the history of ideas and sciences. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Helsinki and a master's degree in political thought and intellectual history from University College London (UCL) and the University of London.

Davidsen's interdisciplinary research focuses on the theory and intellectual history of geopolitics, the development of political science, and the foundations of the human and social sciences. His work has been published in leading journals such as History of European Ideas and Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift (the Swedish Journal of Political Science). His interests also include the methodology of intellectual history and the history of universities.

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