Klaus Dodds

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He researches in the areas of geopolitics, media, and the international governance of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

Klaus Dodds was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994.

In 2005 Klaus Doods was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'"

He has published several books including Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007), Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction (Pearson Education, 2005), and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris, 2002).