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United Kingdom: Comparative Strategy, Vol. 10, pp. 347-364 This essay is about geopolitical frameworks for analysis in U.S. foreign policy. The geopolitical frameworks of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman have undergone a resurgence over the last decade and have evoked an equal measure of criticism as well. Both critics and supporters, however, share certain assumptions about Spykman that have become part of the conventional wisdom defining his relationship to Mackinder and U.S. containment policy. The first assumption sees Spykman as only modifying Mackinder's basic framework, while remaining compatible with its basic logic. The second, which builds on the first, is that Spykman's geopolitics (as understood) layed the foundations for U. S. containment policy through the writings of Kennan, containment documents, and later policymakers. Arguing from these assumptions, critics see the rimland concept as responsible for problems of containment. Supporters, upholding the same assumptions, see the rimland as a passive contact zone around the littorals of Eurasia within which seapowers and heartland struggle for control. This view is said to have informed containment by pointing t
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- Author
- Gerace M.P.
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, International Relations