Kjellén, Rudolf

Kjellén, Rudolf

▪ Swedish political scientist
in full  Johan Rudolf Kjellén  
born June 13, 1864, Torsö, Sweden
died Nov. 14, 1922, Uppsala

      Swedish political scientist and politician whose conservative theory of the state was influential beyond the borders of Sweden.

      Kjellén was educated at the University of Uppsala, and he taught at Göteborg (1901–16) and Uppsala (from 1916). Kjellén is best known for the systematic works in which he treated modern states as organic systems that flourish and then decay. He coined the terms geopolitik (geopolitics) (“geopolitics”), the problems and conditions within a state that arise from its geographic features; oecopolitik, the economic factors that affect the power of the state; and demopolitik, the nation's racial elements and the problems that they create. Late in his life he analyzed the different kinds of national constitutions. Kjellén served several terms as a conservative member of the Swedish parliament. His influence was particularly strong in Germany, where his Staten som livsform (1916; “The State as a Life-Form”) was widely read and where geopolitik took on an ideological meaning quite different from his social scientific concept.

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