Saul Bernard Cohen (gebore 28 Julie 1925 in Malden, Massachusetts, † 9 Junie 2021 in Larchmont, New YorkSam Roberts, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/nyregion/saul-b-cohen-dead.html , Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95, The New York Times, 2021-06-18 , Besoek op 2021-06-20) was 'n Amerikaanse geograaf en universiteitsprofessor. Hy het die term splintergordel (Shatterbelt) in geopolitiek en internasionale betrekkinge geskep.
Lewe Cohen het vanaf 1943 aan die Harvard-universiteit gestudeer, waar hy sy doktorsgraad behaal. Nadat hy aan verskeie Amerikaanse universiteite onderrig het, insluitend die US Naval War Academy, was hy vanaf 1965 professor aan Clark-universiteit en vanaf 1978 ook President van Queens College by City University of New York. In 1965 is hy verkies as 'n genoot van die American Association for the Advancement of Science.https://www.aaas.org/historic-fellow/cohen-saul-b , Saul Cohen , American Association for the Advancement of Science, besoek op 2018-02-17 In 1963 het Cohen die splintergordel geopolitieke teorie geformuleer. Hiervolgens word na daardie streke van die wêreld wat intern onstabiel is en gekenmerk word deur die feit dat verskeie eksterne moondhede beheer oor die streek probeer verkry, na verwys as die splintergordel. Sommige splintergordel-state het alliansies gevorm met een of meer van die mededingende magte. Dit sal hul botsende belange in die streek projekteer en sodoende die risiko van konflik verhoog. Sören Scholvin: Ein neues Great Game um Zentralasien?, GIGA-Focus, Nr. 2, 2009, S. 2.
Publikasies Israel's Fishing Industry. In: Geog Rev, 1957. With Gordon B. Turner. Naval War College Review, vol. X, no. 4, December 1957 As editor. New approaches in introductory college geography courses. Association of American Geographers Comm College Geog, 1967. Geography and Politics in a World Divided, 1963. (2nd ed.) Geography and the Environment. Voice of America Forum Lectures, 1968. As geographic editor. Oxford World Atlas. Oxford University Press, 1973. Jerusalem: Bridging the Four Walls, a Geopolitical Perspective. Herzl Press, 1977. The Geopolitics of Israel's Border Question (Jcss Study, No.7). Westview Press, 1987. Reflections on the Elimination of Geography at Harvard, 1947-51. In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 78, 1, 1988, p. 148-151. Columbia Gazetteer of the World Volume 1. Columbia University Press, 1998. Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East.(Review): An article from: The Geographical Review. In: The Geographical Review, 1998, vol. 88, issue 1, p. 168(3). Textbooks that moved generations: Whittlesey, D. 1939: The earth and the state: a study of political geography. New York: Henry Holt and Company. In: Progress in Human Geography, 2002, 26, p. 679.
Verdere leeswerk Thomas F. Glick. Before the revolution: Edward Ullman and the crisis of geography at Harvard, 1949-1950.
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