ABSTRACT
Although not the originator of the technical term “geopolitics,” nevertheless I have rightly been considered as the leading exponent of its manifestation in Germany…. The manner in which German geopolitics came into being is, by the same token, the justification for its appearance as a subject of higher teaching from 1919 onward; it was born of necessity…. It would be an inhuman and impossible demand to expect that a German scientist could disregard the inadequacy of the distribution of living space in central Europe, which had occurred in those times as a result of its overdeveloped industrialization and urbanization. To this must be added the dismemberment of central Europe by frontiers that could not last long and which, consequently, were geopolitically unjustifiable. For these reasons my book Frontiers, as well as other publications, was written.
