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Robert Strausz-Hupé

Robert Strausz-Hupé
United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka
In office
May 3, 1970 – December 12, 1971
President Richard Nixon
Preceded by Andrew V. Corry
Succeeded by Christopher Van Hollen
United States Ambassador to Belgium
In office
February 15, 1972 – May 22, 1974
President Richard Nixon
Preceded by John S. D. Eisenhower
Succeeded by Leonard Firestone
United States Ambassador to Sweden
In office
April 25, 1974 – March 3, 1976
President Gerald Ford
Preceded by Arthur J. Olsen
Succeeded by David S. Smith
United States Ambassador to NATO
In office
March 3, 1976 – April 20, 1977
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by David K. E. Bruce
Succeeded by William Tapley Bennett Jr.
United States Ambassador to Turkey
In office
July 27, 1981 – May 18, 1989
President Ronald Reagan
Preceded by James W. Spain
Succeeded by Morton I. Abramowitz
Personal details
Born (1903-03-25)March 25, 1903
Austria
Died February 24, 2002(2002-02-24) (aged 98)
Profession Diplomat

Robert Strausz-Hupé (25 March 1903 – 24 February 2002) was an Austrian-born U.S. diplomat and political scientist.

In 1923, he immigrated to the United States. Serving as an advisor on foreign investment to American financial institutions, he watched the Depression spread political misery across the America and Europe. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, Strausz-Hupé began writing and lecturing to American audiences on “the coming war.” After one such lecture in Philadelphia, he was invited to give a talk at the University of Pennsylvania, an event which led to his taking a position on the faculty there in 1940.

Strausz-Hupé founded the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1955, and two years later published the first issue of Orbis, the quarterly journal that remains to this day the institute’s flagship publication. Strausz-Hupé authored or co-authored several important books on international affairs.

In 1969, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka. He subsequently served as ambassador to Belgium (1972–74), Sweden (1974–76), NATO (1976–77), and Turkey (1981–89). In 1989, upon retirement after eight years as Ambassador to Turkey, Strausz-Hupé rejoined the Foreign Policy Research Institute as Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence and President Emeritus.


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