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Mar 15, 2007 less than a year after the united states entered the second world war, nicholas spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. Jan 01, 1970 in americas strategy in world politics, spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. Nicholas john spykman 1893 1943 was a dutch american geostrategist, known as the godfather of containment. American academy of political and social science american political science association council on foreign relations naturalized us citizen 1928. A sterling professor of international relations at yale, spykman built on mackinders work and modified it significantly in two books written during the early 1940s. Like mackinder, nicholas spykman was driven by the desire to describe, prescribe, and predict. American strategy in world politics, the united states and the balance of power. Nicholas john spykman to the study of international politics, world politics iv 1952, 382409. The heartland theory and the presentday geopolitical. The social theory of georg simmel 1925, nonfiction americas strategy in world politics 1942, international affairs the geography of the peace 1944, international affairs.
Buchanan advocates for a new interpretation of the events. Part of the nato asi series book series asid, volume 20. Spykman 1 edition first published in 1970 not in library. Less than a year after the united states entered the second world war, nicholas spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the. Less than a year after the united states entered the second world war, nicholas spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching means to ends in this case, a countrys resources whether they are limited or extensive with its geopolitical objectives which can be local. Review of americas strategy in world politics by nicholas john. America s strategy in world politics new books in politics. Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning.
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