Word: spykman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GEOGRAPHY OF THE PEACE-Nicholas John Spykman-Harcourf, Brace...
...late Professor Nicholas John Spyk man (rhymes with Beekman) bequeathed a nightmare to U.S. readers. The nightmare was that, seen globally, North America is an island encircled by the stronger Eurasian land mass. The purpose of this little book, which is really a 61-page footnote to Professor Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics (TIME, April 20, 1942), is to wake Americans to the realization that Spykman's geopolitical nightmare is no dream...
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...
This book is an exciting and penetrating look at the causes and probable consequences of World War II. As such, it takes its place beside James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution and Prof. Nicholas John Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics. Less abstractly theoretical than Burnham's book, not as rigidly realistic as Spykman's, Conditions of Peace is the work of a new type of political mind -the Leninist of the Right-the conservative who has fortified his position in a revolutionary world by mastering the theory and tactics of the revolution...
...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...