Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He 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 Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for “an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'”.

Books in order of publication:

Geopolitics in a Changing World – 1999

Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire – 2002

Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction – 2004

Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction – 2007

Geopolitics – 2009

The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction – 2012

The Scramble for the Poles: The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic – 2015

Ice: Nature and Culture – 2018

The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know – 2019

Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow – 2020