| Ambassador From: | United States |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Term Start: | July 27, 1981 |
| Term End: | May 18, 1989 |
| Predecessor: | James W. Spain |
| Successor: | Morton I. Abramowitz |
| President: | Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush |
| Ambassador From1: | United States |
| Country1: | NATO |
| Order1: | 11th |
| Term Start1: | March 3, 1976 |
| Term End1: | April 20, 1977 |
| Predecessor1: | David K. E. Bruce |
| Successor1: | William Tapley Bennett Jr. |
| President1: | Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
| Ambassador From2: | United States |
| Country2: | Sweden |
| Term Start2: | April 25, 1974 |
| Term End2: | March 3, 1976 |
| Predecessor2: | Arthur J. Olsen |
| Successor2: | David S. Smith |
| President2: | Gerald Ford |
| Ambassador From3: | United States |
| Country3: | Belgium |
| Term Start3: | February 15, 1972 |
| Term End3: | May 22, 1974 |
| Predecessor3: | John S. D. Eisenhower |
| Successor3: | Leonard Firestone |
| President3: | Richard Nixon |
| Ambassador From4: | United States |
| Country4: | Sri Lanka and Maldives |
| Term Start4: | May 3, 1970 |
| Term End4: | December 12, 1971 |
| Predecessor4: | Andrew V. Corry |
| Successor4: | Christopher Van Hollen |
| President4: | Richard Nixon |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Death Place: | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Profession: | Diplomat, geopolitical theorist |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: |
Robert Strausz-Hupé (March 25, 1903 – February 24, 2002) was an Austrian-born American diplomat and geopolitical theorist.
Born in 1903 in Austria, Strausz-Hupé immigrated to the United States in 1923. 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. He became an Associate Professor in 1946.
Strausz-Hupé founded the Foreign Policy Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, which later became independent in 1970. In 1957, the Institute 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.
Strausz-Hupé was a foreign policy advisor to Barry Goldwater when Goldwater was the Republican Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1964, and also advised Richard Nixon in his successful 1968 campaign. As president, Nixon appointed Strausz-Hupé to be Ambassador to Morocco in 1969, but the appointment was blocked by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, head of the Foreign Relations Committee, on the grounds that Strausz-Hupé was too strongly against communism. Despite this, the following year he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands, and subsequently served as ambassador to Belgium (1972–1974), Sweden (1974–1976), NATO (1976–77), and Turkey (1981–1989).[1]
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.
On April 26, 1938, in New York City, he married Eleanor DeGraff Cuyler Walker (1898–1976), daughter of railroad director Thomas DeWitt Cuyler (1854–1922) and his wife, Frances Lewis Cuyler (1860–1941). She was a descendant of the Hasbrouck family and a second cousin, once removed of New York Governor DeWitt Clinton. She was the youngest of four daughters, and was divorced from Joseph Walker with three children of her own: Eleanor Cuyler Walker Seyffert (1917–1992), Joseph Walker IV (1920–2007) and Peter Cuyler Walker (1925–2000). They did not have any children together, and Eleanor died on March 8, 1976, while in Sweden.
Strausz-Hupé married secondly Mayrose (nee Ferreira) Nugara (b. 1936) on August 22, 1979. She had three children of her own: Ingrid, Cynthia and Ricky. He died at home in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, on February 24, 2002, at the age of 98.[2]
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