...preservation and improvement of their power position a primary objective of their foreign policy. (1942, 7) In international society all forms of coercion are...the struggle for survival, and the improvement of their relative power position becomes the primary objective of the internal and the external policy...

...even Machiavellian, rationality—cleverness in attaining power with limited means. As Spykman put it, "the struggle for survival, and the improvement of...becomes the primary objective of the internal and external policy of states," for "power means survival, the ability to impose one's will on others ....

...related directly to their welfare or to create benefits for their people. As Spykman (1942:18) put it: "the struggle for survival, and the improvement of...becomes the primary objective of the internal and external policy of states, for power means survival, the ability to impose one's will on others. ..and...

...preservation and improvement of the power position a primary objective of their foreign policy (1942:7). In international society all forms of coercion are...the external policy of states. All else is secondary (1942: 18). The modest claim that the pursuit of power must be a primary objective of any state leaves...

...into the contemporary American discussion, deviates from his opening statement, according to which "the improvement of the relative power position becomes the primary objective of the . . . external policy of states," by speaking of the "dynamic state" which, as he puts it, "rarely...

...Spykman had anticipated many of its ideas. "The struggle for power." wrote Spykman. "is identified with the struggle for survival. and the improvement...becomes the primary objective of the internal and external policy of states. All else is secondary. because in the last instance only power can achieve...