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    Nicholas John Spykman (pronounced "Speak-man", 13 October 1893 – 26 June 1943) was an American political scientist who was Professor of International...
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  • states becoming the naval arms protecting Germany's insular position. Nicholas J. Spykman was a Dutch-American geostrategist, known as the "godfather of containment...
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  • founder of the department of international studies at Yale University Nicholas J. Spykman (pronounced "Spike-man") in her mid-thirties, and had two daughters...
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    standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman, while elements of liberal idealism have also been identified in...
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  • America could turn … into an island off the shores of Eurasia." Nicholas J. Spykman's vision of Eurasia was strongly confirmed: "Geopolitically, America...
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  • Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1935 and was led by directors Nicholas J. Spykman and later Frederick S. Dunn, under whom there was also an associate...
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  • of three founding members along with Frederick S. Dunn and Nicholas J. Spykman with Spykman as the first director. The new entity sought to use a "realistic"...
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    close them. The importance of SLOCs in geopolitics was described in Nicholas J. Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics published in 1942. In the American...
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  • co-founder of the Yale Institute of International Studies along with Nicholas J. Spykman, the new entity's first director, and Arnold Wolfers. Dunn's own...
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    Earle, "Power Politics and American World Policy", Review of Nicholas J. Spykman’s America's Strategy in World Politics," Political Science Quarterly, 58/1...
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  • Memoir of John Spangler Nicholas (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved March 11, 2015. "Guide to the John Spangler Nicholas Papers". Yale University...
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    Theory can be found in "Crush zone" of James Fairgrieve, Rimland of Nicholas Spykman, "Shutterbelt" of Saul Cohen and the Intermediate Region of Dimitri...
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    Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Spykman, Gordon J. (1992). Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics...
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  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-10. "Nicholas J. Spykman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-10...
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  • 1950) – What Happened on Fox Street, In the Dark, Phoebe and Digger E. C. Spykman (1896–1965) – A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel, Terrible Horrible Edie...
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    figures were George F. Kennan (known for his work on containment), Nicholas Spykman (known for his work on geostrategy and containment), Herman Kahn (known...
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    patron Robert B. Choate Jr. (1924–2009), businessman Elizabeth Choate Spykman (1896–1965), writer Nathaniel Choate (1899–1965), artist, sculptor Coffin...
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    his once-influential Heartland theory, along with the theories of Nicholas Spykman and Alfred Thayer Mahan. Kaplan's arguments have been criticised on...
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  • doi:10.1559/152304002782008486. ISSN 1523-0406. S2CID 129272384. Spykman, Nicholas J. (2007). America's Strategy in World Politics : the United States...
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  • like Hans Morgenthau, Edmund Walsh, Carl Schmitt, Wilhelm Grewe, and Nicholas Spykman on shaping international relations as an academic discipline, on American...
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  • (1934–2015, England, nf) Caroline Spurgeon (1869–1942, India, US, nf) E. C. Spykman (1896–1965, US, ch) Johanna Spyri (1827–1901, Switzerland, f/ch) Biljana...
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  • current political meaning was coined by Dutch-American geostrategist Nicholas Spykman in a series of lectures in 1943 about the potential shape of a new...
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    (9th ed.). St. Paul, MN: West. 2009. p. 737. ISBN 9780314199508. Spykman, Nicholas J. (July 12, 2017). America's Strategy in World Politics: The United...
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  • Hitler, p. 119. Weinberg, p. 12. Weinberg, p. 13. Hitler, p. 134, 152. Spykman, Nicholas John (1942). America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States...
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    International Politics, (Washington & London: Kennikat Press), p 26–27. Spykman, Nicholas (1942). America's Strategy in World Politics, p 179-180, 457. Kissinger...
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