Nicholas J Spykman
Biographic Data
| ID | 104507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas J Spykman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spykman |
| SIGNATURE | SPYKMAN N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
America's Strategy in World Politics
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 America's Strategy in World Politics, 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…
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Part 1 Social philosophy - methodology-epistemology: the concept of society sociology sociology as distinct from the social sciences and social psychology sociology as distinct from the philosophy of history and the search for historical laws the method and technique of formal sociology the prerequisites of socialization. Part 2 Social science - formal sociology: submission opposition the numerical relations of social forms the spatial relations …
Political Geography of Power
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, I
The attempt to give international society a minimum of government and order through the establishment of a League of Nations has proved only moderately successful. It is true that states have begun to play politics in Geneva, but they have not ceased the older and grimmer struggle for power in the world at large. The state is still today, as far as its international relations are concerned, primarily a military organization. Its specific aims in …
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this study it was suggested that it is possible to distinguish certain forms or patterns of expansion which recur constantly. We have noted that rivers served as effective boundaries only during a very early stage of economic and technical development and soon became routes of communication instead of barriers. We have noted, too, that expansion tends to follow the line of least resistance. It is not surprising, then, to find…
Geography and Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this article, we analyzed the effect of size and world location on the international relations of states and the problems of foreign policy. But more immediate in its conditioning effect is regional location-location viewed with reference to the immediate vicinity.Like world location, regional location is a question of facts plus the significance of those facts at any given historical period. Just as it was found necessary to…
Geography and Foreign Policy, I
La politique de toutes les puissances est dans leur géographie," conceded the man whose famous retort, "Circonstances? Moi, je fais les circonstances," indicates his contempt for any agency but the human will as the arbiter of human destiny. But since the Red Sea parted for Moses and the sun obligingly paused for Joshua, the human will has been unable to recapture the control over topography and climate exhibited by those forceful gentlemen, and …
De Pandji-Roman. William Huibert Rassers
The Social Background of Asiatic Nationalism
Asiatic nationalism has become a popular topic. Most accounts, however, either are purely descriptive or treat merely the political aspect. This suggests the need of a more fundamental approach. A more complete analysis of recent Asiatic history reveals processes of change very similar to those which have appeared in the social history of Western Europe. The outstanding differences are the greater speed of the transformation processes and the fac…
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Part 1 Social philosophy - methodology-epistemology: the concept of society sociology sociology as distinct from the social sciences and social psychology sociology as distinct from the philosophy of history and the search for historical laws the method and technique of formal sociology the prerequisites of socialization. Part 2 Social science - formal sociology: submission opposition the numerical relations of social forms the spatial relations …
Geography and Foreign Policy, I
La politique de toutes les puissances est dans leur géographie," conceded the man whose famous retort, "Circonstances? Moi, je fais les circonstances," indicates his contempt for any agency but the human will as the arbiter of human destiny. But since the Red Sea parted for Moses and the sun obligingly paused for Joshua, the human will has been unable to recapture the control over topography and climate exhibited by those forceful gentlemen, and …
Geography and Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this article, we analyzed the effect of size and world location on the international relations of states and the problems of foreign policy. But more immediate in its conditioning effect is regional location-location viewed with reference to the immediate vicinity.Like world location, regional location is a question of facts plus the significance of those facts at any given historical period. Just as it was found necessary to…
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, I
The attempt to give international society a minimum of government and order through the establishment of a League of Nations has proved only moderately successful. It is true that states have begun to play politics in Geneva, but they have not ceased the older and grimmer struggle for power in the world at large. The state is still today, as far as its international relations are concerned, primarily a military organization. Its specific aims in …
Political Geography of Power
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this study it was suggested that it is possible to distinguish certain forms or patterns of expansion which recur constantly. We have noted that rivers served as effective boundaries only during a very early stage of economic and technical development and soon became routes of communication instead of barriers. We have noted, too, that expansion tends to follow the line of least resistance. It is not surprising, then, to find…
De Pandji-Roman. William Huibert Rassers
The Social Background of Asiatic Nationalism
Asiatic nationalism has become a popular topic. Most accounts, however, either are purely descriptive or treat merely the political aspect. This suggests the need of a more fundamental approach. A more complete analysis of recent Asiatic history reveals processes of change very similar to those which have appeared in the social history of Western Europe. The outstanding differences are the greater speed of the transformation processes and the fac…
Geography and Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this article, we analyzed the effect of size and world location on the international relations of states and the problems of foreign policy. But more immediate in its conditioning effect is regional location-location viewed with reference to the immediate vicinity.Like world location, regional location is a question of facts plus the significance of those facts at any given historical period. Just as it was found necessary to…
Geography and Foreign Policy, I
La politique de toutes les puissances est dans leur géographie," conceded the man whose famous retort, "Circonstances? Moi, je fais les circonstances," indicates his contempt for any agency but the human will as the arbiter of human destiny. But since the Red Sea parted for Moses and the sun obligingly paused for Joshua, the human will has been unable to recapture the control over topography and climate exhibited by those forceful gentlemen, and …
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, I
The attempt to give international society a minimum of government and order through the establishment of a League of Nations has proved only moderately successful. It is true that states have begun to play politics in Geneva, but they have not ceased the older and grimmer struggle for power in the world at large. The state is still today, as far as its international relations are concerned, primarily a military organization. Its specific aims in …
Geographic Objectives in Foreign Policy, II
In the first part of this study it was suggested that it is possible to distinguish certain forms or patterns of expansion which recur constantly. We have noted that rivers served as effective boundaries only during a very early stage of economic and technical development and soon became routes of communication instead of barriers. We have noted, too, that expansion tends to follow the line of least resistance. It is not surprising, then, to find…
Political Geography of Power
America's Strategy in World Politics
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 America's Strategy in World Politics, 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…
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Part 1 Social philosophy - methodology-epistemology: the concept of society sociology sociology as distinct from the social sciences and social psychology sociology as distinct from the philosophy of history and the search for historical laws the method and technique of formal sociology the prerequisites of socialization. Part 2 Social science - formal sociology: submission opposition the numerical relations of social forms the spatial relations …
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