Flashcards: Geopoliticians

Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor.

Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi (November 16, 1894 – July 27, 1972) was an Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi.

Albrecht Georg Haushofer (7 January 1903 – 23 April 1945) was a German geographer, diplomat, author and member of the German Resistance to Nazism.

Sergei Lousianin (Russian: Сергей Геннадьевич Лузянин, tr. Sergey Gennadievich Luzyanin, Chinese: 卢加宁, born 23 July 1956) is a Russian political scientist, orientalist, an expert on international relations in East Asia, domestic and foreign policy of China and Mongolia, security issues in the Asia-Pacific Region and Central Asia.

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (Russian: Евге́ний Макси́мович Примако́в, tr. Yevgeniy Maksimovich Primakov; 29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999.

Jean-François Thiriart (22 March 1922, Brussels – 23 November 1992) was a Belgian politician associated with neo-fascist and neo-Nazi groups.

Nicholas John Spykman (13 October 1893 –26 June 1943) was a Dutch-American geostrategist, known as the "godfather of containment.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛv bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyev bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] ; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B.

Alfred Thayer Mahan [məˈhæn] (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Yossef Bodansky (born in Israel) is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004.

Eugeniusz Mikołaj Romer (3 February 1871 in Lwów (Lviv, Lemberg) – 28 January 1954) was a distinguished Polish geographer, cartographer and geopolitician, whose maps and atlases are still highly valued by Polish experts.

George Friedman (born February 1, 1949) is a geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs.

Dimitri Kitsikis (Greek: Δημήτρης Κιτσίκης; born 2 June 1935) is a Greek Turkologist, Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics.

Yves Lacoste (born 7 September 1929) is a French geographer and geopolitician.

Sabin Manuilă (or Mănuilă; February 19, 1894 – November 20, 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian statistician, demographer and physician.

Frédéric Encel is a French writer and scholar of geopolitics.

Ravi Arvind Palat (born c. 1954) is Professor (Department Chair) at the Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, The State University of New York.

Gilford John Ikenberry (October 5, 1954) is a theorist of international relations and United States foreign policy, and a professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former Chief Analyst at Wikistrat.

Michael S. Radu (April 29, 1947 – March 25, 2009) was a Romanian-American political scientist and journalist who grew up in Romania.

Jacques Ancel (July 22, 1879 in Parmain, Val-d'Oise – 1943) was a French geographer and geopolitician.

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Traian Herseni (February 18, 1907 – July 17, 1980) was a Romanian social scientist, journalist, and political figure.

Ewan William Anderson (1938–) is an English academic expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography.

Farrukh Saleem (Urdu: فاروخ سليم; PhD), is a Pakistani political scientist, game and economic theorist, financial analyst writer, and television personality.

Gawdat Bahgat (born c. 1960s) is a professor of political science at the National Defense University.

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth – 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era.

Ellsworth Huntington (September 16, 1876 – October 17, 1947) was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on environmental determinism/climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography.

Golbery do Couto e Silva (August 21, 1911 – September 18, 1987) was a Brazilian General of the Army, who developed the Brazilian National Security Doctrine.

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS (3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016) was a British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics involving Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography.

Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan (Arabic: نايف الروضان‎‎; born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author.

Stuart Edward Corbridge, FRGS (born 1957) is a British geographer and academic specialising in geopolitics, development studies, and India.

Seifudein Adem is a political scientist from Ethiopia.

Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu (born October 3, 1968, Târgu Mureş) is a Romanian sociologist and an expert in the situation in Republic of Moldova.

Gerard Toal (Irish: Gearóid Ó Tuathail; born 1962 in the Republic of Ireland) is Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the Government and International Affairs program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, National Capital Region campus.

Otto Maull (8 May 1887 – 16 December 1957) was a German geographer and geopolitician.

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 - February 13, 1927) was an American historian and a critic of capitalism.

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ricardo René Larémont is a political scientist at Binghamton University, where he has been teaching Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa.

Herman Beukema (January 29, 1891 – November 26, 1960) was a Brigadier General in the United States Army.

Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (born 1955, Birjand, Iran) is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran.

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Robert Strausz-Hupé (25 March 1903 – 24 February 2002) was an Austrian-born U.

Adolf Grabowsky (August 31, 1880 in Berlin – August 23, 1969 in Arlesheim, Switzerland) was a German political scientist and author of several books about geopolitics and political theory, including "Democracy and Dictatorship" (1949).

Karl August Erich Obst (13 September 1886 – 9 June 1981) was a German geographer and geopolitician.

Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi (pronounced [dʒæˈʋed̪hæ'ʃmɨ] (IPA: [dʒæˈʋed̪hæ'ʃmɨ] )); (Urdu: مخدوم محمد جاوید ہاشمی‎; b. 17 July 1949), is a veteran Pakistani conservative nonpartisan political figure who presided over Pakistan Muslim League between 2001 till 2005 and the over Pakistan Movement for Justice from March 2013 till September 2014.

François Joyaux (born in 1938) is emeritus professor of East Asian civilization at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales where he created the diplôme des hautes études internationales.

Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics.

Pierre Marie Gallois (29 June 1911 – 24 August 2010) was a French air force brigadier general and geopolitician.

James Fairgrieve (1870 – 1953) was a British geographer, educator, and geopolitician.