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Karl Deutsch, one of the most insightful political scientists of the twentieth century, was born into a Sudeten German family on July 21, 1912 in the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While his father Moritz Deutsch served in the emperor’s army during the Great War of 1914–1918, Karl spent his youngest years alone with his mother Leopoldine Maria Scharf Deutsch. At the end of hostilities, Moritz Deutsch returned to Prague and his business as optician.
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Among these are Bruce M. Russett, Community and Contention: Britain and America in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1963); Bruce M. Russett, World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964); William J. Foltz, From French West Africa to the Mali Federation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965); Aaron Lijphart, The Trauma of Decolonization: The Dutch and West New Guinea (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966); Richard L. Merritt, Symbols of American Community, 1735–1775 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966); Michael C. Hudson, The Precarious Republic: Political Modernization in Lebanon (New York: Random House, 1968); Hugh Stephens, The Political Transformation of Tanganyika, 1920–67 (New York: Praeger, 1968); Charles Lewis Taylor and Michael C. Hudson, World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators: Second Edition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972); G. L. Schweigler, National Consciousness in Divided Germany (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1975); Peter J. Katzenstein, Disjoined Partners: Austria and Germany Since 1815 (Berkeley Hills, CA: University of California Press, 1976); and Charles Lewis Taylor and David A. Jodice, World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators: Third Edition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983).
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The Harvard University Gazette: March 16, 1995, 90, 26; at: http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/bibliographies/karl-w-deutsch/.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Taylor, C.L., Russett, B.M. (2020). Biography of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912–1992). In: Taylor, C., Russett, B. (eds) Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer in the Theory of International Relations. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02910-8_1
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