Word: spykman
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
...named George T. Renner, of Columbia University's Teachers College, published in Collier's a map of a post-war world drawn to "democratic specifications" (TIME, June 15). A disciple of the small but respectable school of American geopoliticos which includes Yale's Professor Nicholas John Spykman (America's Strategy in World Politics- TIME, April 20), Professor Renner believes that scholars, not "amateurs," are best able to write the peace...
While it is encouraging to find an intelligent man who can still write a book without calling Hitler the devil, such an overwhelmingly realistic study as Spykman's appears extreme. His concept of balanced power may perhaps be broad enough to meet the challenge that power politics has already held the stage too long, and should not be perpetuated...
...that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...