Last week, I was in Gothenburg, Sweden, the city where the word “geopolitics” (“geopolitik” in Swedish) was probably first uttered publicly. It was spoken by Rudolf Kjellen, who coined the term, during a series of popular science lectures in April 1899 at what is today the University of Gothenburg. (“Geopolitik” first appeared in print in […]
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