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- Biography and benchmark papers of one of the most distinguished social scientists in the 20th century
Part of the book series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice (PAHSEP, volume 25)
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This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering political scientist, international relations specialist and peace scholar of the 20th century. Born in Prague, he was a professor at MIT, Yale and Harvard and spent a decade at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). He was a global leader in the theory and scientific analysis of international relations and comparative politics who published on nationalism, social communication, European integration, war and peace, arms control, social cybernetics, general systems analysis, and global modelling. He pioneered the development and analysis of large-scale political and social data across nations and over time and proposed a widespread access to these data and their scientific evaluation.
This book offers biographical data on Karl W. Deutsch, reproduces chapters from his PhD thesis and his book Nerves of Government. Colleagues from the USA (A.S. Markovits, H. Alker, R.L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,P. J. Katzenstein, T.R. Cusack, C.L. Taylor), Germany (D. Senghaas, R. Wildenmann, R. Mackensen, K. v. Beyme) and the Czech Republic (M. Hroch) offer Collegial Critiques and Memorials. It provides a comprehensive bibliography of his publications and memorials for a great scholar, a superb academic teacher and world citizen.
• Karl Wolfgang Deutsch was a major global pioneer in Political Science, international
relations and peace research in the 20th century.
• His most creative contributions were the concept of social mobilization, the use of cybernetics
to study human relationships, the introduction of politics in world modeling, and the role of communication in governance.
• He was president of the American Political Science Association (1969-70) and of the
International Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the Social
Science Research Center Berlin (1977-87).
• Academics, including graduate students, exploring nationalism, political integration,
social communications, cybernetics, and global modeling will find this volume instructive.
This book offers biographical data on Karl W. Deutsch, reproduces chapters from his PhD thesis and his book Nerves of Government. Colleagues from the USA (A.S. Markovits, H. Alker, R.L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,P. J. Katzenstein, T.R. Cusack, C.L. Taylor), Germany (D. Senghaas, R. Wildenmann, R. Mackensen, K. v. Beyme) and the Czech Republic (M. Hroch) offer Collegial Critiques and Memorials. It provides a comprehensive bibliography of his publications and memorials for a great scholar, a superb academic teacher and world citizen.
• Karl Wolfgang Deutsch was a major global pioneer in Political Science, international
relations and peace research in the 20th century.
• His most creative contributions were the concept of social mobilization, the use of cybernetics
to study human relationships, the introduction of politics in world modeling, and the role of communication in governance.
• He was president of the American Political Science Association (1969-70) and of the
International Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the Social
Science Research Center Berlin (1977-87).
• Academics, including graduate students, exploring nationalism, political integration,
social communications, cybernetics, and global modeling will find this volume instructive.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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On Karl Wolfgang Deutsch
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Selected Texts from Deutsch’s Work
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Collegial Critiques and Memorials
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Charles Lewis Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Virginia Tech in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Research Professor of International Politics and Professor of International and Area Studies in the MacMilllan Center, Yale University.
Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Research Professor of International Politics and Professor of International and Area Studies in the MacMilllan Center, Yale University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer in the Theory of International Relations
Book Subtitle: With a Preface by Charles Lewis Taylor and Bruce M. Russett
Editors: Charles Lewis Taylor, Bruce M. Russett
Series Title: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02910-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02909-2Published: 09 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02910-8Published: 28 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-5579
Series E-ISSN: 2509-5587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 326
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Methodology of the Social Sciences