Rudolf Kjellén was an important politicalscientist during the first half of this century. He is perhaps the most influential Scandinavianpolitical scientist ever. Together with the political geographer Fredrich Ratzel, Kjellén wasthe founder of the German geopolitical school. All his major works were translated into German, butthey were, to my knowledge, never translated into English. They were important sources of inspirationfor the leading geopolitical theorist and military general, Karl Haushofer.Karl Haushofer, Grenzen in ihrer geographischen und politischen Bedeutung (BerlinGrünewald: Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, 1927); Dan Diner, ‘Grundbuch desPlaneten’—Zur Geopolitik Karl Haushofer, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte,32: 1 (1984), pp. 1–28; Barbro Lewin, Johan Skytte och de skytteanska professorerna[Johan Skytte and the Skyttean Professors]. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis (Skrifterutgivna av Statsvetenskapliga föreningen i Uppsala, 100), (Stockholm: Almqvist & WiksellInternational, 1985); Rainer Sprengel, ‘Land und Meer—Eine diskursanalytischeBetrachtung’, WeltTrends (1994), pp. 61–84. By the time of his visit toSweden in 1935, Haushofer was about to publish the 25th German edition of Kjellén'sDie Grossmächte [The Great Powers].EdwardThermænius, ‘Geopolitik och politisk geografi’ [Geopolitics and PoliticalGeography], Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 19 (1937), pp. 213–328. The idea that states were not fixed juridicial entities but dynamic organisms competing on theinternational scene, was something that appealed to Haushofer. He was to fuse this thought withRatzel's concept of Lebensraum, that was later to reachHitler.