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America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.

Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1942].

Main Author: Spykman, Nicholas John (Nicholas John), 1893-1943.
Format: Online
Language: eng
Published: New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c200
Online Access: https://consultaredebie.decex.eb.mil.br/pergamum/biblioteca/index.php?codAcervo=404260
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spelling ir-perga-oai-4042602019-03-07T15:13:09Z America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa. Spykman, Nicholas John (Nicholas John), 1893-1943. E183.7 .S7 2007 327.73 22 World politics 1933-1945. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1942]. 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. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century. Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-480) and index. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c2007. https://consultaredebie.decex.eb.mil.br/pergamum/biblioteca/index.php?codAcervo=404260 eng United States Foreign relations. United States Foreign relations 1933-1945. United States Foreign relations Philosophy.
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America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
author_sort Spykman, Nicholas John (Nicholas John), 1893-1943.
title America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
title_short America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
title_full America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
title_fullStr America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
title_full_unstemmed America's strategy in world politics: the United States and the balance of power/ Nicholas J. Spykman ; with a new introduction by Francis P. Sempa.
title_sort america's strategy in world politics: the united states and the balance of power/ nicholas j. spykman ; with a new introduction by francis p. sempa.
description Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1942].
publisher New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers,
publishDate c200
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