Alexandros petersen biography of george washington

American academic

Alexandros Petersen (1984 - 2014), known as Alexi or Alex, was an academic, writer and geopolitical energy expert.^[1] He is the author, among others, of the book "The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and The Fate of the West" (Praeger: 2011).

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 3, 1984 to a Danish father and a Greek mother, Petersen spoke Danish, Greek and English. He grew up in Rome and Washington DC, where he graduated from Georgetown Day School.

Given his singular energy and passion for the less-discovered areas of foreign policy, his legacy of projects -- from explaining the geopolitics.

Given his singular energy and passion for the less-discovered areas of foreign policy, his legacy of projects -- from explaining the geopolitics.

Alexandros had recently moved to Afghanistan to take up a new position as a professor at American University in Kabul.

The Wilson Center is shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Alexandros Petersen, who died in an attack on a restaurant in Kabul last week.

Alex hadn't been in Kabul a week; he'd flown out of Washington the previous Saturday to take a post at the American University of Afghanistan.

A scholar of Central Asia, Mr. Petersen was living out his dream when he accepted a job teaching political science at the American University of.

In 1999, Petersen co-founded the punk rock band "The A.K.s" , together with Noah Foster and Justin Parker while they were classmates at GDS in Washington. Petersen was the lead singer and main lyricist of the band.

Petersen received a BA in War Studies with First Class Honors from King's College London and an MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. His PhD thesis, dated 2012, which was entitled Integration in energy and transport