| ID | 138976 |
| Title Proper | Return of geopolitics in the era of soft power |
| Other Title Information | rereading Rudolf Kjellen on geopolitical imaginary and competitive identity |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Marklund , Carl |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper looks at how Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén (1864–1922) conceived of the relationship between nature and culture, between material and immaterial power as well as the role of soft power, geopolitical imaginary and competitive identity in off-setting potentially unfavourable geopolitical conditions for small and medium-sized states. It is argued that with regard to small states, Kjellén did not maintain a consistent separation between “soft” cultural resources of power and “hard” laws of nature. Rather, he placed the mutually constitutive tension between geography (nature) and politics (culture) at the centre of his politico-scientific analysis, arguing that active “biopolitics” could supplement geopolitics. In Kjellén’s conception, cultural and natural resources are instruments of an otherwise integrated notion of power which challenges the contemporary separation between hard and soft power. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 20, No.2; 2015: p.248-266 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 20 No 2 |
| Key Words | Hard Power ; Geopolitical Conditions ; Return of Geopolitics ; Soft Power Era ; Rudolf Kjellen ; Competitive Identity ; Imaginary Identity ; Nature and Culture ; Contemporary Separation ; Geopolitical Determinis |