1. Nicholas John Spykman, born in Amsterdam October 13, 1893, “earned a bachelor’s degree (1921), master’s degree (1921), and a doctorate (1923) from the University of California. He had been a young journalist in the Near East from 1913 to 1916, in the Middle East from 1916 to 1919, and in the Far East from 1919 to 1920. He was an instructor in political science and sociology at the University of California from 1923 to 1925 before going to Yale in 1925. In 1935 he became chairman of Yale’s Department of International Relations and Director of the Yale Institute of International Studies, positions he held until 1940.” He died on June 26, 1943. (Kenneth W. Thompson, Masters of International Thought, Louisiana State University Press, 1980, p. 92 ).
2. As in Kenneth W. Thompson, Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics (Princeton University Press, 1960), pp. 29–32.
3. Nicholas J. Spykman, The Social Theory of Georg Simmel (New York: Russell & Russell), 1964 (1925), pp. v-vii, xi-xvi, 268, 273.
4. 2. Nicholas John Spykman, "The Teaching of International Relations-Methods and Topics," Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of Teachers of International Law and Related Subjects, 1929, 38-43, 52
5. 3. idem, "Methods of Approach to the Study of International Relations," Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Teachers of International Law and Related Subjects, 1933, 58-81, 101-102.