Geo Strategic model in political geography was propounded by:

Correct Answer: Saul Cohen.

Saul Bernard Cohen was an American human geographer. Cohen graduated from Harvard University just before the faculty closed its Department of Geography. He was President Emeritus of the Queens College and was Professor of Geography at the Hunter College in New York.

Key Point

• Geostrategy is the geographic direction of a state's foreign policy.
• More precisely, geostrategy describes where a state concentrates its efforts by projecting military power and directing diplomatic activity.
• A functionally interrelated part of the Earth's surface combines a number of countries.
• US political geographer Saul B. Cohen identified two such regions in 1973 a 'trade-dependent maritime world' (surrounding the oceans) and a Eurasian continental world centered on the USSR and China. ​
• Soul Cohen wrote geography and politics in a World Divided.
• Cohen divides the world into two geostrategic regions viz, trade-dependent maritime region, which is interior in directions along with 10 geopolitical regions.

Additional Information

• Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist and student of Friedrich Ratzel. He first coined the term "geopolitics." His writings would play a decisive role in influencing General Karl Haushofer's geopolitik, and indirectly the future Nazi foreign policy and its use spread throughout Europe in the period between World Wars I and II (1918–39) and came into worldwide use during the latter.
• While geopolitics is ostensibly neutral examining the geographic and political features of different regions, especially the impact of geography on politics geostrategy involves comprehensive planning, assigning means for achieving national goals, or securing assets of military or political significance.