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This article is about two influential geopolitical thinkers, Owen Lattimore and Nicholas Spykman, who envisaged a new regional world order in the 1940s. The article explores their geopolitical ideas in the context of their political ideas about empire and democracy.
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This article helps understand why geopolitics was an important perspective on international relations in the 1940s, and what it can tell us about world politics today.
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This page is a summary of: GEOPOLITICS AND EMPIRE: VISIONS OF REGIONAL WORLD ORDER IN THE 1940S, Modern Intellectual History, December 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1479244314000547.
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