Saul B. Cohen

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Saul Bernard Cohen (born July 28, 1925 in Malden, Massachusetts ) is an American geographer and university professor. He coined the term Shatterbelt in geopolitics and international relations .

Life

Cohen studied from 1943 at Harvard University , where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate . After teaching at various American universities, including the US Naval Academy, he was a professor at Clark University from 1965 and, from 1978, also President of Queens College at City University of New York . In 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 1963 Cohen formulated the geopolitical Shatterbelt theory . Thereafter, those regions of the world are as Shatterbelt referred to which are unstable in their interior and are also characterized in that a plurality of external forces attempting to gain control of the region. Some Shatterbelt states made alliances with one or more of the competing powers. This would project their conflicting interests into the region and thus increase the risk of conflict.

Fonts (selection)

  • Geography and politics in a world divided . 2nd edition: Oxford University Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-19-501695-5 (first edition 1963).
  • Problems and trends in American geography . Basic Books, New York 1967.
  • Geopolitics of the world system. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 2003, ISBN 0-8476-9906-4 .
  • Geopolitics. The geography of international relations . 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-2349-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saul Cohen. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sören Scholvin: A New Great Game about Central Asia? , GIGA-Focus, No. 2, 2009, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Saul B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Saul Bernard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Malden, Massachusetts