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  2. Friedrich Ratzel - Wikipedia

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    Ratzel's father was the head of the household staff of the Grand Duke of Baden. Friedrich attended high school in Karlsruhe for six years before being apprenticed at age 15 to apothecaries. In 1863, he went to Rapperswil on the Lake of Zurich, Switzerland, where he began to study the classics.

  3. Geopolitik - Wikipedia

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    Geopolitik was a German school of geopolitics which existed between the late 19th century and World War II.. It developed from the writings of various European and American philosophers, geographers and military personnel, including Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), Alexander Humboldt (1769–1859), Karl Ritter (1779–1859), Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), Rudolf Kjellén (1864–1922), Alfred ...

  4. Lebensraum - Wikipedia

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    Based upon Johan Rudolf Kjellén's geopolitical interpretation of Friedrich Ratzel's human-geography term, the Nazi regime (1933–45) established Lebensraum as the racist rationale of the foreign policy by which they began the Second World War, on 1 September 1939, in an effort to realise the Greater Germanic Reich at the expense of the ...

  5. Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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    Geopolitics shared Ratzel's scientific materialism and geographic determinism, and held that human society was determined by external influences—in the face of which qualities held innately by individuals or groups were of reduced or no significance. National Socialism rejected in principle both materialism and determinism and also elevated ...

  6. Rudolf Kjellén - Wikipedia

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    Kjellén was Ratzel's student and would further elaborate on organic state theory, coining the term "geopolitics" in the process. Geopolitics for Kjellén was theory and war its "experimental field." [ 1 ] He was also influenced by John Robert Seeley and Heinrich von Treitschke , who were advocates of imperialism .

  7. Geostrategy - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist and student of Friedrich Ratzel. He first coined the term "geopolitics." [34] His writings would play a decisive role in influencing General Karl Haushofer's geopolitik, and indirectly the future Nazi foreign policy. [34] His writings focused on five central concepts that would underlie German ...

  8. Political geography - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, Ratzel was creating a theory of states based around the concepts of Lebensraum and Social Darwinism. He argued that states were analogous to 'organisms' that needed sufficient room in which to live. Both of these writers created the idea of a political and geographical science, with an objective view of the world.

  9. File:CIA WorldFactBook-Political world.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Français : Carte du monde selon le CIA World Factbook. Cette version de janvier 2015 est la dernière version vectorielle disponible de ce fichier. (La version pdf d'octobre 2016 contient une version bitmap, pas vectorielle. Et la version PDF de février 2021 est partiellement vectorielle et partiellement bitmap.)