Geopolitical Theory of Water

... conditioning, but not to the point of no longer being able to conceive or explain social and cultural facts autonomous from nature.» [ 7 ] Haushofer himself, together with Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of the geopolitical discipline, with his political theory of pan-ideas overcame the fundamentally ethnic conception of Ratzel's lebensraum (among other things, this and his idea of collaboration with the Soviet Union earned him internment in Dachau). Indeed, Haushofer wrote: «Geopolitics ...