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The Application of German Geopolitics: Geo-sciences

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The dominant feature of German geopolitical doctrine is an endeavor to unite man and his race, time and space, geography and history, peace and war, in a new, organic, and scientific whole. Geopolitics, therefore, chooses at random and at its own convenience among political ideas and anthropological, historical, geographical, and legal data. In an attempt to incorporate them into the body of a brand-new “science of the state,†Geopolitik tries to apply its particular methods and basic principles to a wide sphere of “branch†sciences, such as psychology, medicine, and jurisprudence.The all-pervasive influence of Haushofer's “portmanteau†science is most clearly evident in the new names of these synthetic, combined branch-disciplines, as coined by German scholars. The broad category of Geo-Wissenschafte now includes at least Geo-Psychologie, Geo-Medizin, and Geo-Jurisprudenz, as the result of the attempts thus far made at creating an encylopaedic totalitarian “science.â€

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  • Gyorgy, Andrew, 1943. "The Application of German Geopolitics: Geo-sciences," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(4), pages 677-686, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:37:y:1943:i:04:p:677-686_04
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