He advocated for a strategy of containment (pre-dating George Kennan) to prevent any hegemonic power—especially Germany or the Soviet Union at the time—from unifying the Rimland.
Nicholas Spykman was a Dutch-American professor of international relations at Yale University. Writing during the height of World War II, he sought to move American foreign policy away from isolationism and toward a rigorous, "realist" understanding of geography and power.
: Security depends on maintaining a balance of power in Eurasia.
He advocated for a strategy of containment (pre-dating George Kennan) to prevent any hegemonic power—especially Germany or the Soviet Union at the time—from unifying the Rimland.
Nicholas Spykman was a Dutch-American professor of international relations at Yale University. Writing during the height of World War II, he sought to move American foreign policy away from isolationism and toward a rigorous, "realist" understanding of geography and power.
: Security depends on maintaining a balance of power in Eurasia.
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