Nicholas John Spykman (b.1893 - d.1943) was a Dutch-American geostrategist, known as the "godfather of containment." As a political scientist he was one of the founders of the classical realist school in American foreign policy, transmitting Eastern European political thought into the United States. A Sterling Professor of International Relations, teaching as part of the Institute for International Studies at Yale University, … Wikipedia
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In both instances, U.S. policy hewed to realistic geopolitical moorings that had been brilliantly analyzed and explained in two articles and two books by a Dutch-American professor at Yale University named Nicholas Spykman . www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2006/0406/semp/sempa_spyk...