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 and is author of five books including Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007) and co-editor of three volumes including Geopolitical Traditions (Routledge, 2000). His latest work is concerned with the geopolitics of cinema and radio, 'soft power' and public diplomacy in a global In 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research achievements in geopolitics and human geogr...