ABSTRACT
One field of political geography which has attracted considerable attention, and which is directly related to state security, is global strategy. Academics who have presented analyses of global strategy have generally done so with the intention of influencing policy. Geographers are well equipped to make a major contribution, providing two qualifications. Each state takes an egocentric view of the world, and there are as many global views as there are states. The global views are meaningless unless they are associated with an assessment of the relative power of states, geographers cannot expect to provide the final answer alone. The studies are by Spykman a political scientist, Mouzon an economist, and Cohen a geographer. Spykman published four papers and two books dealing with foreign policy and geography, in the decade before his death in 1943. Spykman examines the world strategical views of Mackinder and Haushofer and accepts the former's views, with a slight modification of terminology.
