Paul Rohrbach
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Paul Rohrbach was a German
Germans
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 writer, concerned with "world politics."
Politics
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  He was born at Irgen, Courland
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. Between 1887 and 1896 he attended the universities of Dorpat
University of Tartu
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, Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
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, and Strassburg
University of Strasbourg
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, afterward he traveled extensively in Asia
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 (especially China
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) and Africa
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, and in 1903-06 he was Royal Commissioner to southwest Africa
Namibia
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. His writings include many books on political conditions in the countries visited by him, with much attention to the effects of German colonization and interests. His Der deutsche Gedanke in der Welt was translated into English
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 by Edmund von Mach
Edmund von Mach
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 as German World Policies (1915), and Der Krieg und die deutsche Politik (1914) appeared in an English translation by P. H. Phillipson as Germany's Isolation: An Exposition of the Economic Causes of the Great War
World War I
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(1915). Most of the last-named book was written before the opening of the Europe
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an war.
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