The Early Suitors of Latin America -- The Fascist Offensive -- The Democratic Counter-Offensive -- The Possibility of a Common Ideological Front -- IX. The Economic Pattern of the New World -- The United States -- Canada -- The American Mediterranean -- The Intermediate Zone -- Temperate South America -- The Western Hemisphere -- Hemisphere Encirclement -- X. Mobilization of Natural Resources -- Raw Materials -- Hemisphere Self-sufficiency -- XI. Economic Integration -- Pan American Economic Co-operation -- United States and Argentine Opposition -- Increased Inter-American Trade -- Loans and Credits -- Cartels -- The Possibility of an Economic Front -- XII. The Political Pattern of the New World -- Conflict Areas -- Oppositions and Alignments -- Extra-hemisphere Orientations -- The Union of American Republics -- XIII. The New World versus the Old -- France and the Holy Alliance -- The First World War -- The Second World War -- The Myth of Solidarity -- XIV. The Military Front -- The Problem of Invasion -- The Armed Strength of the New World -- The Strategic Pattern -- XV. Hemisphere Defense -- Invasion from across the Pacific -- Invasion from across the Atlantic -- The Possibility of Hemisphere Defense -- CONCLUSION -- The Geographic Location of the United States -- Hemisphere Defense? -- Quarter-Sphere Defense? -- The Post-War World -- The United States and the Peace Settlement -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDICES -- I. Notes on Maps -- II. The Countries of the Western Hemisphere -- III. Destination of Hemisphere Exports in I937 -- IV. Origin of Hemisphere Imports in I937 -- V. Principal Transoceanic Sources of United States Imports of Strategic and Critical Raw Materials, I937 -- VI. Regional Origin of Raw Materials, I937 -- VII. Military Establishments of the Western Hemisphere, at the Outbreak of the Second World War -- INDEX

lgrsnf/America's Strategy in World Politics_ The United States and the Balance of Power - Nicholas Spykman.epub

lgli/America's Strategy in World Politics_ The United States and the Balance of Power - Nicholas Spykman.epub

Nicholas J Spykman; Francis P Sempa

Nocholas J Spykman; Francis P Sempa

Spykman, Nicholas J.

Transaction Publishers

Taylor and Francis

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), London, 2017

United States, United States of America

Londes, Nueva York, cop. 2007

New Brunswick, NJ, ©2007

First Edition, PS, 2007

Somerset, 2007

1st, 2007

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE UNITED STATES AND THE BALANCE OF POWER -- I. Power Politics and War -- Nature of Power -- Power in International Relations -- Balance of Power -- The Nature of War -- II. The United States in the Western Hemisphere -- The Land Masses of the World -- The North American Continent -- The American Mediterranean -- The South American Continent -- The Power Position of the United States -- The Balance of Power in the Western Hemisphere -- III. From Monroe Doctrine to Hemisphere Defense -- Independence for the New World -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The French Challenge -- The British Challenge -- The German Challenge -- The Supremacy of the United States -- Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine -- IV. America and the Transatlantic Zone -- The African Continent -- The European Mediterranean -- The European Continent -- The Position of Great Britain -- Britain and the Balance of Power -- Plans for a German Hemisphere -- The United States and the European Balance -- V. America and the Transpacific Zone -- The Australian Continent -- The Asiatic Mediterranean -- The Asiatic Continent -- The Position of Japan -- Japan and the Asiatic Balance of Power -- American Possessions in the Pacific -- Plans for a Japanese Hemisphere -- The United States and the Asiatic Balance -- VI. The United States in the World -- Continental Interdependence -- The Washington Conference -- The British-Japanese Alliance -- The German-Japanese Alliance -- The Pattern of World Politics -- The Geography of the Second World War -- The Transoceanic Routes -- The Encirclement of the Western Hemisphere -- PART TWO: THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH AMERICA -- VII. The Two Americas -- Anglo-Saxon America -- Latin America -- VIII. Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

<p>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 <i>America's Strategy in World Politics</i>, 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <i>America's Strategy in World Politics</i> relevant to the twenty-first century.</p>

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