Word: geopolitico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Nicholas John Spykman, 49, Dutch-born geopolitico, Yale professor of international relations since 1928; of a heart ailment; in New Haven. Dapper, high-domed Spykman left seven years of journalism in the Middle and Far East in 1920 to get his Ph.D. at the University of California, became first director of Yale's Institute of International Studies in 1935. In 1942 his widely read America's Strategy in World Politics explored the global basis of power politics, insisted that "the final step ... to order is not the disappearance of force but its use by the community...
Culbertson, as an amateur geopolitico, proposed uniting the nations of the world into eleven regional federations: the U.S. and Latin America, the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Latin Europe, Middle Europe, Northern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, China, India, Japan, Malaysia. Each federation would have its own constitution, its own government. Neither nations nor federations would have armies-only police forces armed with nothing heavier than machine guns...
...class included men who in civilian life had been judges, city managers, engineers, lawyers, police officials, doctors, a movie executive. Their teachers were Army officers, headed by Brigadier General Cornelius W. Wickersham, son of the former U.S. Attorney General, and such eminent political scientists as Yale's Geopolitico Nicholas J. Spykman, Harvard's Professor William Yandell Elliott, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, Williams' Professor Max Lerner...
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