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136:(born 7 September 1929), is a French geographer, known for his political commitment and contributions to geopolitics. Born in Rabat, Morocco, the son of a geologist, Jean Lacoste, and a librarian, he spent his childhood in the city before continuing his secondary education at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux (Seine) and his higher education at the Sorbonne.
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Morocco, Lacoste passed the agrégation in geography in 1952. He began his teaching career at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers. A member of the French Communist Party and the Algerian Communist Party, he became actively
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In 1989, he founded the Centre de recherches et d'analyses de géopolitiques, now the
Institut français de géopolitique.Lacoste stands out for his innovative approaches to geography, integrating natural and political constraints into his analyses.He also published the journal Hérodote
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Internationally recognized, he was awarded the
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geography, notably on underdevelopment and the history of the
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by publishing a spatial forensics analysis of the US bombing campaign of the
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Contre les anti-tiersmondistes et contre certains tiersmondistes
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Geopolitical traditions: a century of geopolitical thought
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In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal
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