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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,
internationalrelations and peace research in the 20th century. *
His most creative contributions were the concept of social
mobilization, the use of cyberneticsto 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 theInternational
Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the
SocialScience 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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