Abstract:
According to Kjellen, a leading Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", “Viable states that have limited space are strongly subordinated to political imperative by expanding their territory through colonization, unification or conquest”. The great examples of this are England, Germany and Japan. The natural growth for self-preservation plays more significant role rather than a spontaneous instinct of conquest. Geopolitics as a method of political analysis examines the interaction and mutual relationship of geographical spaces. Moreover, it makes a systematic analysis of the spatial position based on geographical factors. This science of the impact of geography on politics became extremely popular in the first half of the 20th century. In the USSR it was banned in 1934, in Germany it was declared as a criminal method, however now it is still used and well studied in the rest of the world
