Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920 Chicago – August 16, 2006 Seattle)"Alexander George, 'giant' in international relations, dead at 86", ''Stanford Report'', BARBARA PALMER, August 23, 2006
/ref> was an American behavioral scientist. He was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at

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. He made influential contributions to political psychology, international relations, and social science methodology.

Life

His parents were

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from Urmia in north-west Persia. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in political science in 1958. According to

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he was the 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."

Awards

* 1975 Bancroft Prize * 1983 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship * 1997 NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from the

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. * 1998 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science *2000 membership to the American Philosophical Society

Works

* * * * * * * * * * * George, Alexander/Simons William E., 1994: ''The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy'', Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:George, Alexander 1920 births 2006 deaths MacArthur Fellows American political scientists Scientists from Chicago American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent Scholars of diplomacy Bancroft Prize winners University of Chicago alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society 20th-century political scientists