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A scholar of grand strategy and energy geopolitics, he frequently contributes to outlets such as the Economist, Foreign Affairs and the International Herald..
Alexandros Petersen
American academic
Alexandros Petersen ( - ), known as Alexi or Alex, was an academic, writer and geopolitical energy expert.[1] He is the author, among others, of the book "The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and The Fate of the West" (Praeger: ).
Biography Alexandros Petersen is director of research at the Henry Jackson Society: Project for Democratic Geopolitics and senior fellow with the Eurasia.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 3, to a Danish father and a Greek mother, Petersen spoke Danish, Greek and English. He grew up in Rome and Washington DC, where he graduated from Georgetown Day School.
In , Petersen co-founded the punk rock band "The A.K.s" , together with Noah Foster and Justin Parker while they were classmates at GDS in Washington. Petersen was the lead singer and main lyricist of the band.
Petersen received a BA in War Studies with First Class Honors from King's College London and an MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
His PhD thesis, dated , which was entitled Integration in energy and transport amongst Azerbaijan, Georg