Essay1947
The Long Telegram / The Sources of Soviet Conduct
George F. Kennan
Diagnoses Soviet behaviour as driven by internal insecurity and prescribes patient containment rather than confrontation.
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Politics & Government · Geopolitics & Grand Strategy
Foundations & Overviews
A topic within Geopolitics & Grand Strategy, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
Reading on Foundations & Overviews
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Book1944
The Geography of the Peace
Nicholas J. Spykman
Argues that the coastal 'Rimland' ringing Eurasia, not Mackinder's interior Heartland, is the true prize of great-power competition and the zone the United States must never let a single power dominate.
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