Alexander L. George

Alexander L. George
Born
Alexander L. Givargis

(1920-05-31)May 31, 1920
Chicago, USA
DiedAugust 16, 2006(2006-08-16) (aged 86)
Seattle, USA
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
SpouseJuliette L. George
ChildrenMary L. Douglass, Lee L. George
Awards1975 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
FieldsInternational relations, foreign policy, behavioural science and political psychology.
InstitutionsStanford 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.

George appropriated the term process tracing from psychology in 1979 to describe the use of evidence from within case studies to make inferences about historical explanations.[4]

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

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

  1. ^ a b "Alexander George, 'giant' in international relations, dead at 86", Stanford Report, BARBARA PALMER, August 23, 2006
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Zenda: A Weekly Assyrian Online Magazine, Vol III, Issue 39 I Kanoon 8, 6747, December 8, 1997
  4. ^ "Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices". Peace Research Institute Oslo.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  • 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.