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strong as a potential enemy; there is security only in being a little stronger. There is no possibility of action if one's strength is fully checked; there is a chance for a positive foreign policy only if there is a margin of force which can be freely used. Whatever the theory and rationalization, the practical objective is the constant improvement of the state's own relative power position. The balance desired is the one which neutralizes other states, leaving the home state free to be the deciding force and the deciding voice."
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The Rimland has great importance because of its demographic weight, natural resources, and industrial development. Spykman sees that its importance to be the reason that the Rimland will be crucial to containing the Heartland, but Mackinder had believed that the Outer or Insular Crescent would be the
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neither does the entire foreign policy of a country lie in geography, nor does any part of that policy lie entirely in geography. The factors that condition the policy of states are many; they are permanent and temporary, obvious and hidden; they include, apart from the geographic factor, population
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The Rimland's defining characteristic is that it is an intermediate region, lying between the Heartland and the marginal sea powers. As the amphibious buffer zone between the land powers and sea powers, it must defend itself from both sides, the cause of its fundamental security problems. Spykman's
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to limit their own strength. States are always engaged in curbing the force of some other state. The truth of the matter is that states are interested only in a balance which is in their favor. Not an equilibrium, but a generous margin is their objective. There is no real security in being just as
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geographer. Spykman's work is based on assumptions similar to Mackinder, the unity of world politics and the unity of the world sea, but extends it to include the unity of the air. The exploration of the entire world means that the foreign policy of any nation will affect more than its immediate
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According to Spykman, topography affected the unity and internal coherence of states, and climate affected the economic structure of the state. Spykman argued that the "comparative size of states" was a rough indication of the comparative strength of states (provided that there was political and
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Again, Spykman differs from Mackinder, who sees Eurasian wars as historically pitting the Heartland against the sea powers for control of the rimland, establishing a land power-sea power opposition. Spykman states that historically, battles have pitted either Britain and Rimland allies against
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density, the economic structure of the country, the ethnic composition of the people, the form of government, and the complexes and pet prejudices of foreign ministers; and it is their simultaneous action and interaction that create the complex phenomenon known as "foreign policy."
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strong after World War II to be able to counter Russia's power. Strategically, there was no difference between Germany dominating all the way to the Ural or Russia controlling all the way to Germany, and as both scenarios were equally threatening to the US.
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and its Rimland allies or Britain and Russia together against a dominating Rimland power. In other words, the Eurasian struggle was not the sea powers containing the Heartland but the prevention of any power from ruling the Rimland.
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and that China and Russia would remain to struggle against each other over boundaries. He also forecast the rise of China, becoming the dominant power in Asia and that the US would thus take responsibility for Japan's defense.
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should be read in not less than a million American homes. Every government official responsible for policy should read it once a year for the next twenty years—even if he may not agree with some of the remedies proposed."
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and the "Asiatic Mediterranean." Neither has ever been the seat of significant power; chaos prevents Africa from harnessing the resources of its regions, and Australia has too little arable territory.
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He wrote that all states tend towards expansion, "Other things being equal, all states have a tendency to expand." Even small states seek to expand, but are limited in doing so by various barriers.
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and argued that US interests favored balanced power in Europe, rather than integrated power. The US was fighting a war against Germany to prevent Europe's conquest, and it would not make sense to
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economic integration of the state). He also argued that "Size is of primary importance as an element of defense, particularly if the vital centers of a country are far removed from the border."
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Methods of Approach to the Study of International Relations, in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Teachers of International Law and Related Subjects, Washington 1933
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International Relations from the Point of View of Teaching, in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of Teachers of International Law and Related Subjects, Washington 1930
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At the same time, even if he gives credit to the strategic importance of maritime space like Mackinder, he does not see it as a region that will be unified by powerful
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as well. Since the political and material center of gravity was in the Western part of the USSR, Spykman sees little possibility of the Soviets exerting much power in
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of International Relations, teaching as part of the Institute for International Studies at Yale University, one of his prime concerns was making his students
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Therefore, British, Russian, and US power would play the key roles in controlling the European litoral and there the essential power relations of the world.
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remained in a small portion of its territory, mostly in the West. Indeed, the Soviet's raw materials were largely located to the West of the
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He worked as a journalist in various parts of the world during much of the 1910s and also served as a diplomatic assistant for the
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and the founders of the containment strategy would borrow heavily from Spykman, as well as Mackinder, when forging the American
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While Spykman accepts the first two as defined, he rejects the simple grouping the Asian countries into one "monsoon land."
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was published the year after Spykman's death. He explained his geostrategy and argued that the balance of power in
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Still, the Soviet Union was to remain the greatest land power in Asia and could be a peacekeeper or a problem.
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directly affected US security. In his writings on geography and foreign policy, Spykman was somewhat of a
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The Revenge of Geography: What the Maps Tell Us About the Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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and was its first director. He held that position until 1940, when he became ill and relinquished it.
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infrastructure in the near future. As such, it will not be in a position to compete with US
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neighbors; it will affect the alignment of nations throughout the world's regions.
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Other than the two continents, the offshore islands of significance are Britain,
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mobility opened up the possibility of a new geopolitical structure: the overseas
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He then came to the United States around 1920 to enter a doctoral program at the
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America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power
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Re-thinking Nicholas J. Spykman: from historical sociology to balance of power.
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the Offshore Islands & Continents (Mackinder's "outer or insular crescent")
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from 1928 until his death in 1943. He was one of the founders of the classical
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literate, as geopolitics was impossible without geographic understanding.
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or to unify Europe after a war that had been fought to preserve balance.
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He could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists
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was published in 1942, soon after the entry of the United States into
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He died of heart complications on 26 June 1943, at the age of 49, in
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Spykman adopts Mackinder's divisions of the world but renames some:
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the Rimland (analogous to Mackinder's "inner or marginal crescent")
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with A. A. Rollins, Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, II,
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with A. A. Rollins, Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, I,
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American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science
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Spykman thought that it was in the American interests to leave
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Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space
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commented in 1942, "On grounds of merit and public value
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conception of the Rimland bears greater resemblance to
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Who rules Eurasia controls the destinies of the world.
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Who controls the Heartland rules the World Island; and
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Frontiers, Security, and International Organization,
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