Alexander L. George
Alexander L. George | |
---|---|
Born | Alexander L. Givargis May 31, 1920 Chicago, USA |
Died | August 16, 2006 Seattle, USA | (aged 86)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Spouse | Juliette L. George |
Children | Mary L. Douglass, Lee L. George |
Awards | 1975 Bancroft Prize 1983 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 1997 NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War 1998 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | International relations, foreign policy, behavioural science and political psychology. |
Institutions | Stanford University RAND Corporation American University |
Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920 Chicago – August 16, 2006 Seattle)[1] was an American behavioral scientist. He was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He made influential contributions to political psychology, international relations, and social science methodology.[2]
Life
His parents were Assyrians from Urmia in north-west Persia.[3] He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in political science in 1958.
According to David A. Hamburg he was among the first to lead behavioral scientists into studying the "very painful and dangerous" issues of nuclear crisis management during the Cold War era and to carry knowledge directly to policy leaders. George "focused a great deal of attention on reducing nuclear danger," he added. "I regard him as a truly great scholar and human being."[1]
Awards
- 1975 Bancroft Prize
- 1983 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 1997 NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from the National Academy of Sciences.[4]
- 1998 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
- 2000 membership to the American Philosophical Society[5]
Works
- Alexander L. George; Juliette L. George (1964). Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: a personality study. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-21144-2.
Alexander L George.
- The Chinese Communist Army in Action; The Korean War and Its Aftermath. Columbia University Press. 1969. ISBN 978-0-231-08595-3.
- Alexander L. George; Richard Smoke (1974). Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-03838-6.
Richard Smoke.
- Managing U.S.-Soviet Rivalry: Problems of Crisis Prevention. Westview Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-86531-500-6.
- Alexander L. George; Philip J. Farley; Alexander Dallin, eds. (1988). U.S.-Soviet security cooperation: achievements, failures, lessons. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505398-2.
- Alexander L. George; Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, eds. (1991). Avoiding war: problems of crisis management. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-1232-3.
- Forceful persuasion: coercive diplomacy as an alternative to war. United States Institute of Peace Press. 1991. ISBN 978-1-878379-14-6.
- Alexander L. George; Juliette L. George (1998). Presidential personality and performance. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2591-0.[permanent dead link]
- Alexander L. George; Andrew Bennett (2005). Case studies and theory development in the social sciences. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-57222-4.
- On Foreign Policy: Unfinished Business. Paradigm Publishers. 2006. ISBN 978-1-59451-264-3.
- George, Alexander/Simons William E., 1994: The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy, Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press
References
- ^ a b "Alexander George, 'giant' in international relations, dead at 86", Stanford Report, BARBARA PALMER, August 23, 2006
- ^ Levy, Jack S. (2008). "Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy: The Contributions of Alexander George". Political Psychology. 29 (4): 537–552. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00648.x. ISSN 0162-895X. JSTOR 20447143.
- ^ Zenda: A Weekly Assyrian Online Magazine, Vol III, Issue 39 I Kanoon 8, 6747, December 8, 1997
- ^ "NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
External links
- Dan Caldwell; Timothy J. McKeown; Alexander L. George, eds. (1993). Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-1745-8.
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with hCards
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from August 2023
- Articles with permanently dead external links
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NDL identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NLK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1920 births
- 2006 deaths
- MacArthur Fellows
- American political scientists
- Scientists from Chicago
- American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent
- Scholars of diplomacy
- Bancroft Prize winners
- University of Chicago alumni
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- 20th-century political scientists
- Presidents of the International Studies Association