Abstract:

Robert Strausz-Hupé, whom adopted the word of ‘Geopolitics’ into the U.S. political lexicon had also became chief adviser of President Nixon on foreign policy. He came to the office after Legendary President Kennedy and this time was the periods of major transformation in American foreign policy. In this period he has been the builder of the new ‘Geopolitics’ perception on The United States foreign policy during the Cold War. In the 1950s, he has worked with William Yandel Elliott, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski at The Foreign Policy Research Institute which has established by himself and these staff will play important roles on the U.S. Foreign Policy in the near future. In 1957, Hupé foresaw the collapse of Communism at his article named ‘Balance of Tomorrow’ which published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute in the Geopolitics opinions Journal of Orbis. Hupé was the first one that talked about the ‘New World Order’ after Communism. Robert Strausz-Hupé, as the builder of perception and transformation of ‘Geopolitics’ in American Foreign Policy, had voluntarily became as the Ambassador of the United States to Turkey after the 1980 Military Coup and he had spent the last eight years of his diplomatic career on this mission. In this paper, the ‘New World Order’ strategy has been interpreted with a historical perspective which planned by Robert StrauszHupé and his team as the political guidance of the builder of perception and transformation of ‘Geopolitics’ in U.S. Foreign Policy. And also in this paper, it has been studied with examples to expression that the importance of academic researches to shaping policy.

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