Rudolf Kjellén: geopolitiken och konservatismen edited by Ragnar Björk, Bert Edström and Thomas Lundén Stockholm, Hjalmarson & Högberg, 2014.337 pp., 198 kr, ISBN 978-91-7224-196-1.

Abstract

The Swedish political scientist, geographer and politician Rudolf Kjellén (1864-1922) was an original, even pioneering thinker for his time. He is best known for his grand theory of statehood, abandoning the narrowly legal definition of the state and choosing instead to define and analyze states as something akin to living organisms (although this generalization hardly does his views full justice). However, Kjellén's ideas largely fell out of favor after his death and even more so after World War II, when his radical conservatism and Social Darwinism had become tainted by their connection to Nazism. As shown by the authors of the book under discussion, Kjellén's theories did go on to have a separate, more reverential reception abroad (for example, in Brazil), but in his native Sweden, Kjellén's postwar fate was to be consigned to the what-do-you-know type of footnotes pointing out that it had been this Swedish arch-conservative who originally came up with the notions of folkhemmet ('People's home', one of the central concepts in the history of Swedish welfare state), nationalsocialismen ('national socialism,' which Kjellén suggested would be a good thing and preferable to internationalist socialism) and geopolitik (geopolitics).

Comparison of hybrid regression and multivariate regression in the regional flood frequency analysis: A case study in Khorasan Razavi province

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