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

INTRODUCTION, PART ONE THE UNITED STATES AND THE BALANCE OF POWER I. Power Politics and War II. The United States in the Western Hemisphere III. From Monroe Doctrine to Hemisphere Defense IV. America and the Transatlantic Zone V. America and the Transpacific Zone VI. The United States in the World PART TWO THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH AMERICA VII. The Two Americas VIII. Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda IX. The Economic Pattern of the New World XI. Economic Integration XII. The Political Pattern of the New World XIII. The New World versus the Old XIV. The Military Front CONCLUSION