The geography of the peace / by Nicholas John Spykman; edited by Helen R. Nicholl with an introduction by Frederick Sherwood Dunn; maps by J. McA. Smiley.

Half-title: Institute of International Studies, Yale University.

"First edition."

Cont.: PART 1: Geography in War and Peace -- Alternative Roads to Peace -- Geography and Foreign Policy -- Geopolitics and Security -- PART 2: Mapping the World -- The Problem of Map-Making -- Types of Map Projection -- Choosing a World Map -- PART 3: The Position of the Western Hemisphere -- Conditioning Factors of Foreign Policy -- Location and World Power -- The Distribution of Power Potentials -- The United States and the World -- PART 4: The Political Map of Eurasia -- Mackinder's World -- The Heartland -- The Rimland -- The Off-Shore Continents -- The Dynamic Pattern of Eurasian Politics -- PART 5: The Strategy of Security -- Global War -- Strategic Pattern of the Second World War -- Eurasian Conflict Zones -- Access of the United States to Eurasia -- A Foreign Policy for the United States.