Nicholas J. Spykman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicholas J. Spykman

Dutch-American geopolitician

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1943

Profession: diplomat, university teacher, journalist, geopolitician

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Nicholas John Spykman (pronounced "Speak-man", 13 October 1893 – 26 June 1943) was an American political scientist who was one of the founders of the classical realist school in American foreign policy, transmitting Eastern European political thought to the United States.
A Sterling Professor of International Relations, teaching as part of the Institute for International Studies at Yale University, one of his prime concerns was making his students geographically literate, as geopolitics was impossible without geographic understanding. His work on geopolitics and geostrategy led him to be to known as the "godfather of containment."