ABSTRACT
The kinds of statistics employed by geopolitics is in the first place population statistics. Geopolitics, in accordance with its general nature, goes a step farther by turning the static notion of Ratzel into a decidedly dynamic argument. Language embodies the images which people have and which the geopolitical worker should "understand" so as to employ them for the sake of social and political control. The methodological position of geopolitics as a Gestalt-sociology may be inferred from the fact that it is a descriptive science. Verbal description in geopolitics is aided by illustrative maps, be they of an orographical, topographical, economic, cultural, or political character. The editors of the Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik quote approvingly the remark of the Austrian geographer Rudolf Sieger, that geopolitics differs from political geography because and to the extent to which it is a prognostic science.
