The rise and fall of Finnish geopolitics
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Abstract
The paper examines the development and content of Finnish political geography and in particular the development of geopolitical thinking and its social and historical contexts in Finland and internationally. Political geography has not been popular in Finland, even though the country is often regarded as an epitome of living geopolitics, as described by the expression 'Finlandization'. Geopolitics was more popular in Finland among academic circles and within various nationalist movements before World War II, and one specifically geopolitical number of Terra, the journal of the Geographical Society of Finland, is analysed to identify the tendencies that have been central to Finnish geopolitical thinking. The roots of geopolitics in Finland can be traced to relations between Finland, the Soviet Union and Germany.