Rimland
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It is catalogued under topics including Geopolitical terminology and Political terminology of the United States.
Its subject is documented across 16 Wikipedia language editions.
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- foreign policy doctrine
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- discoverer or inventor
- Nicholas John Spykman
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The Rimland is a concept championed in the early 20th century by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale University. To him, geopolitics is the planning of the security policy of a country in terms of its geographical factors. He described the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent.
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