Yves Lacoste (born 1929) is a French geographer and geopolitician. He was born in Fes, Morocco. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal "Hérodote". He is the author of a "Geopolitical Dictionary" (1993) and the French Institute for geopolitics (Institut Français de Géopolitique).
In one of his known works, La Géographie du sous-développement, Lacoste suggests a spatial explanation of underdevelopment.
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