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Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer in the Theory of International Relations

With a Preface by Charles Lewis Taylor and Bruce M. Russett

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Editors:
  1. Charles Lewis Taylor

    1. Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

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  2. Bruce M. Russett

    1. Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA

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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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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. On Karl Wolfgang Deutsch

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Biography of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912–1992)

      • Charles Lewis Taylor, Bruce M. Russett
      Pages 3-14

    3. A Life of Productivity

      • Charles Lewis Taylor
      Pages 15-47

  3. Selected Texts from Deutsch’s Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Peoples, Nations, and Communication

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 51-73

    3. National Assimilation or Differentiation

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 75-102

    4. Communication Models and Decision Systems: Some Implications for Research

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 103-117

    5. Learning Capacity and Creativity in Politics: The Search for Cohesion and Values

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 119-132

    6. Government as a Process of Steering

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 133-146

    7. Political Self-awareness, Autonomy, and Sovereignty

      • Karl W. Deutsch
      Pages 147-156

  4. Collegial Critiques and Memorials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Historical Experience and the Culture of Knowledge: Karl W. Deutsch from Prague to America

      • Andrei S. Markovits
      Pages 159-170

    3. The Power of Networks: Insights from the Political Cybernetics of Karl W. Deutsch

      • Hayward R. Alker
      Pages 171-200

    4. Karl Deutsch and the Study of Political Science

      • Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr.
      Pages 201-217

    5. Three Encounters with Karl W. Deutsch

      • Miroslav Hroch
      Pages 219-233

    6. Practizing Politics with Alert Senses: Remembering Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992)

      • Dieter Senghaas
      Pages 235-244

    7. Karl W. Deutsch: Testing Great Ideas Against the Real World: Concepts and Theories Grounded Firmly in Data

      • Charles Lewis Taylor
      Pages 245-249

    8. Karl W. Deutsch: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Mensch

      • Peter J. Katzenstein
      Pages 251-253

    9. Karl W. Deutsch Interviewed

      • Andrei S. Markovits
      Pages 255-262
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

    Charles Lewis Taylor

  • Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Bruce M. Russett

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.
 


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