Las leyes del crecimiento espacial de los Estados. Una contribución a la Geografía Política científica

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ID5877876
AuthorsFriedrich Ratzeñ (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume2
Issue1
Publication date2011-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolítica(s) Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2172-7155 • E-ISSN: 2172-3958
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/rev_geop.2011.v2.n1.37901
OpenAlexW2144434798
LanguageES
Citations received7

Populations are in continuous internal motion, which projects itself towards the periphery. The expansion of different activities, such as trade and religion, precedes the spatial growth of the state. The size of the state is one of the measures of its civilizational level: the higher the latter is, the larger the state’s surface is. At the same time the relationship of the population to the land becomes continuously closer. The growth of the state proceeds by the annexation of smaller members into the aggregate, and manifests itself as a peripheral phenomenon in pushing outward the frontier which must be crossed by the carriers of growth. However, growth does not happen in any direction, but towards the most valuable lands. Natural increase renews a simple political body and continuously reproduces it, but does not of itself reproduce any other form. Weaker states attempt to equal the more powerful, whence the struggle for spatial integration and levelling arises

Annexation · Archaeology · Economic geography · Frontier · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Philosophy · Regional Development and Innovation · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

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