Non solo Geopolitica. Spazio, potere e fattori ideo-culturali nel realismo politico di Nicholas J. Spykman

Spykman is mainly if not exclusively mentioned in the International Relations textbooks for his geopolitical theory. Though geopolitics has been doubtless an important field of investigation for him, there is much more to Spykman's approach to the study of international politics than merely geopolitics. This article focuses on Spykman's political realism as it is outlined especially in America's Strategy in World Politics and argues that its emphasis on the importance of the ideocultural factors in the international politics and its attention to the mutual relations between domestic and foreign policy still makes it one of the most insightful and original (however neglected) contribution to the realist theory in the american Internationl Relations.