Robert Strausz-Hupé

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Robert Strausz-Hupé (born March 25, 1903 in Vienna , † February 24, 2002 in Newtown Square , Pennsylvania ) was an American diplomat and theoretician of geopolitics . He was the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka , Belgium , Sweden , NATO and Turkey, and the founder of the University of Pennsylvania Foreign Policy Research Institute .

Life

Strausz-Hupé, whose childhood in Vienna was still under the Habsburg Monarchy , emigrated to the United States in 1923, where he later worked as a financial advisor. In 1938, after the annexation of Austria to National Socialist Germany, he began to write and give lectures in the USA about “the coming war”. After such a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the college hired him as a staff member, since 1946 as an associate professor of political science . In 1955 he founded the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) with Henry Kissinger and others, and in 1957 he published the first edition of Orbis , the institute's quarterly publication .

Strausz-Hupé was foreign policy advisor to Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 and in 1968 in the same capacity for Richard Nixon . Nixon appointed him US ambassador to Sri Lanka in 1969. He then served as ambassador to Belgium (1972–74), Sweden (1974–76), NATO (1976–77) and Turkey (1981–89). When he retired as Ambassador in 1989, he returned to the FPRI as Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence and Honorary President.

According to Friedrich W. Korkisch, Strausz-Hupé was one of the most important geopoliticians in the United States, and his students included Melvin R. Laird and Robert F. Kennedy . In 1956 he predicted the decline of the Soviet Union because it could not create a new world order and therefore ideologically exhausted itself, and communism as the "religion of the anti-Christian" did not have sufficient substance. The USA lacks a vision for the future, however, and they are in danger of spending themselves on investing in a democratic world. The USA should therefore create a new world order (within the framework of an "American Empire", which he saw coming in 1942) by weakening the nation states. The world needs a controlling core power and that is the USA.

Fonts (selection)

  • In my time . 2nd edition, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 1996, ISBN 1560-00853-9 (first edition: WW Norton, New York 1965).
  • Geopolitics. The struggle for space and power . 2nd edition, Arno Press, New York 1972, ISBN 0405-04601-X (First edition: GP Putnam's sons, New York 1942).
  • Power and community . Praeger, New York 1956.
  • The balance of tomorrow . GP Putnam's sons, New York 1945.
  • Axis America. Hitler plans our future . GP Putnam's Sons, New York 1941.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical data are based on Paul Lewis: Robert Strausz-Hupé, Envoy And Cold-War Stalwart, 98 . In: The New York Times , February 26, 2002.
  2. ↑ Robert Strausz-Hupé. Founder of FPRI , Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
  3. ↑ a b Frederick W. Korkisch: Global Strategy: The Geopolitics of the United States. Effects on politics and strategy - from the Western Reserve via the Panama Canal to the opposite coast and energy policy (Part 3) . In: Austrian Military Journal (ÖMZ), 6/2010.
predecessor Office successor
Andrew V. Corry US Ambassador to Sri Lanka
May 3, 1970-12. December 1971 		Christopher Van Hollen
John Eisenhower US Ambassador to Belgium
February 15, 1972-22. May 1974 		Leonard Firestone
Arthur J. Olsen US Ambassador to Sweden
May 29, 1974–3. March 1976 		David S. Smith
James W. Spain US Ambassador to Turkey
September 7, 1981-18. May 1989 		Morton I. Abramowitz
personal data
SURNAME Strausz-Hupé, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2002
Place of death Newtown Square , Pennsylvania