America's Strategy in World Politics

The Early Suitors of Latin America -- The Fascist Offensive -- The Democratic Counter-Offensive -- The Possibility of a Common Ideological Front -- IX. The Economic Pattern of the New World -- The United States -- Canada -- The American Mediterranean -- The Intermediate Zone -- Temperate South America -- The Western Hemisphere -- Hemisphere Encirclement -- X. Mobilization of Natural Resources -- Raw Materials -- Hemisphere Self-sufficiency -- XI. Economic Integration -- Pan American Economic Co-operation -- United States and Argentine Opposition -- Increased Inter-American Trade -- Loans and Credits -- Cartels -- The Possibility of an Economic Front -- XII. The Political Pattern of the New World -- Conflict Areas -- Oppositions and Alignments -- Extra-hemisphere Orientations -- The Union of American Republics -- XIII. The New World versus the Old -- France and the Holy Alliance -- The First World War -- The Second World War -- The Myth of Solidarity -- XIV. The Military Front -- The Problem of Invasion -- The Armed Strength of the New World -- The Strategic Pattern -- XV. Hemisphere Defense -- Invasion from across the Pacific -- Invasion from across the Atlantic -- The Possibility of Hemisphere Defense -- CONCLUSION -- The Geographic Location of the United States -- Hemisphere Defense? -- Quarter-Sphere Defense? -- The Post-War World -- The United States and the Peace Settlement -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDICES -- I. Notes on Maps -- II. The Countries of the Western Hemisphere -- III. Destination of Hemisphere Exports in I937 -- IV. Origin of Hemisphere Imports in I937 -- V. Principal Transoceanic Sources of United States Imports of Strategic and Critical Raw Materials, I937 -- VI. Regional Origin of Raw Materials, I937 -- VII. Military Establishments of the Western Hemisphere, at the Outbreak of the Second World War -- INDEX