VITA AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MUELLER
Woody Hayes Chair of National
Security Studies and Professor of Political
614-247-6007
614-292-2407 (fax)
bbbb@osu.edu
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Citizenship:
Born:
Marital Status: Married, three children
EDUCATION
A.B., 1960--
M.A., 1963--UCLA--Political Science
Ph.D., 1965--UCLA--Political Science
USPHS Fellow, 1962-1965
M.A.
THESIS
The Politics of Fluoridation in
Seven California Cities
Ph.D.
DISSERTATION
Reason and Caprice: Ballot Patterns
in
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Foreign and defense policy,
international relations, dance as an art form, public opinion, the war in
Vietnam, dance history and film, choreography of Fred Astaire, perspectives on
war and peace, change in post-Communist countries, terrorism
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
1965-69 Assistant Professor of
Political Science, University of Rochester
1969-72 Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
1972-2000 Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
1983-2000 Professor of Film Studies, University of Rochester
February- June 1994 Visiting Professor, Institute of International Relations,
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
January 1997 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta
February-March 1997 Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
2000- Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon
Center, and Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
2000- Courtesy faculty appointment, Department of Dance, Ohio State University
February-June 2001 Senior Guest Researcher, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo,
Norway
Biography
Profile in U.S. News & World Report
Courses
Political
Science papers available on the web
Reprinted
books available on the web
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Terrorism, Security, and Money: Balancing the
Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security.
Book project in collaboration with engineer and risk‑analyst
Mark Stewart of the University of Newcastle, Australia, applying cost‑benefit
analysis to issues of homeland security. In progress.
Atomic Obsession: Nuclear
Alarmism from
Overblown: How Politicians and
the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats,
and Why We Believe Them (
The
Remnants of War (
Capitalism, Democracy, and
Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1999) (Ukrainian translation, 2003; Russian translation by Olimp-Biznes,
Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics (New York: HarperCollins, 1995) available in 2009 reprint
Policy and
Opinion in the Gulf War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
(ed. with
Richard G. Niemi and Tom W. Smith) Trends in
Public Opinion: A Compendium of Survey Data (Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1989)
Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989) available in updated 2009 reprint
Astaire
Dancing: The Musical Films (New York: Knopf,
1985). Received the de la Torre Bueno Prize,
presented by Dance Perspectives Foundation, for "the most distinguished
book-length manuscript in the field of dance," 1983 (to be reprinted in
2010)
Dance Film Directory: An
Annotated and Evaluative Guide to Films on Ballet and Modern Dance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Book Co.,
1979)
Films on Ballet and Modern Dance:
Notes and a Directory(New York: American Dance Guild, 1974) (includes extensive analysis of
Humphrey's "Passacaglia" and Graham's "Night
Journey")
War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: Wiley, 1973). Selected as one of the "Fifty Books That Significantly Shaped Public Opinion Research, 1946-1995" by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall 1995. Recipient of the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinon Research presented by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, November 8, 2007 available in 2009 reprint
(ed.) Approaches to Measurement in International Relations: A Non-Evangelical Survey (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969)
PUBLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: ARTICLES
"Assessing Measures Designed to Protect the Homeland" and "Response," 38 Policy Studies Journal, forthcoming, 2010 available on the web
"Capitalism, Peace, and the Historical
Movement of Ideas, International Interactions forthcoming, 2010
"Nuclear Weapons and
"Think Again: Nuclear Weapons," Foreign
Policy forthcoming, 2010
"The Atomic Terrorist?" in Benjamin
Friedman, ed., Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is
Failing and How To Fix It (
"Assessing Measures Designed to Protect the
Homeland," in Benjamin Friedman, ed., Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S.
Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How To Fix It
(
"The Atomic Terrorist?" in Olav
Njřlstad, ed., Peace, Stability, and Nuclear Order: Theoretical assumptions,
historical experiences, future challenges (
"Reacting to Terrorism: Probabilities,
Consequences, and the Persistence of Fear," in Rafael Reuveny and William
R. Thompson, (eds.), Coping with Contemporary Terrorism; Origins,
Escalation, and Responses (
"War, Crime, and Terrorism: Some Distinctions," in
Mary Ellen O'Connell (ed.), What Is War? forthcoming
"Questing for Monsters to Destroy: 11/9 as
9/2 and 9/11 as 6/25," in Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro, eds., When
Walls Come Down:
"Public Opinion, the Media, and War,"
in Robert Y. Shapiro and
"Action and Reaction: Assessing the
Historic Impact of Terrorism," in Jean Rosenfeld, ed., Terrorism,
Identity, and Legitimacy (Routledge) forthcoming
"Faulty Correlation, Foolish
Consistency, and Fatal Consequence: Democracy, Peace, and Theory in the
"Calming Our Nuclear Jitters: An
exaggerated fear of nuclear weapons has led to many wrongheaded policy
decisions. A more sober assessment is needed," Issues in Science and
Technology, Winter 2010, pp. 58‑66
"Nuclear Bunkum: Don't panic: bin Laden's
WMD are mythical, too," American Conservative, January 2010, pp. 20‑21
available on the web
"The 'Safe Haven' Myth," Nation, 9 November 2009 available on the web
"Mueller on
the Zazi case: This is It?" Informed Comment,
www.juancole.com, 4 November 2009 available on the web
"The
Rise of Nuclear Alarmism: How we learned to start worrying and fear the bomb‑‑and
why we don't have to," www.foreignpolicy.com, 23 October 2009.available on the web
"War Has Almost Ceased to Exist: An Assessment," 124 Political Science Quarterly 297-321 (Summer 2009) available on the web
(with
Karl Mueller), "The Rockets' Red Glare: Just what are 'weapons of mass
destruction, anyway?' www.foreignpolicy.com, 7 July 2009 available on the web
"Abolition? Why?" No Nukes: Possibility or Pipe Dream?
Room for Debate, nytimes.com, 7 June 2009 available on the web
"The
Atomic Terrorist?" Research
Paper for the International Commission on Nuclear Non‑Proliferation and
Disarmament, 30 April 2009
"Obama's
Report Card," foreignpolicy.com, April 2009
"How Dangerous
are the Taliban? Why
"
"Will Obama
reassess the threat posed by al Qaeda?" Ask This, Nieman Watchdog,
www.niemanwatchdog.org, 2 February 2009 available on the web
"Fearing
Fear," www.cato‑unbound.org, 9 January 2009 available on the web
"The Long-Term Political and Economic Consequences of 9/11," in
Matthew H. Morgan (ed.), The Impact of 9/11:
The Day that Changed Everything?" (
"Inflating Terrorism," in
Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall (eds.), Threat Inflation: The Theory,
Politics, and Psychology of Fear Mongering in the
"The threat of terrorism is overblown and more manageable than
suspected," in Stuart Gottlieb, ed., Debating Terrorism and
Counterterrorism: Conflicting Perspectives on Causes, Contexts, and Responses
(
"Is International Terrorism a Significant Challenge to
National Security?" in Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, and Beth McBratney
(eds.), Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to
International Relations (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press,
2010), pp. 139-147
(with Ian S. Lustick) "Israel's Fight-or-Flight Response," National
Interest, Nov./Dec. 2008, pp. 68-71 available on the web
"The Iraq War and the Management of
American Public Opinion," in James Pfiffner and Mark Phythian (eds.), Intelligence
and National Security Policy Making in Iraq: British and American Perspectives
(Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2008), pp. 126-48
"Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity," American Interest,
May/June 2008, pp. 6-13 available on the web
(with Mark G. Stewart) "A Risk and Cost-Benefit Assessment of Australian
Aviation Security Measures," 4 Security Challenges 45-61 (Spring
2008) available on the web
(with Mark G. Stewart) "A risk and cost-benefit assessment of United
States aviation security measures," 1 Journal of Transportation
Security 143-59 (2008) available on the web
"Security, Muscularity and Morality: Three Comments on Etzioni," 51 American
Behavioral Scientist 1339-50, May 2008
"Band of Brigands: The Criminality of Modern Warfare," Lapham's
Quarterly, Winter 2008, pp. 193-98
"Extrapolations from a Book about Nothing," in Helen Fehervary and
Bernd Fischer (eds.), Cultural Poltics and the Politics of Culture: Essays
to Honor Alexander Stephan (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 39-45
"Apocalypse Later," National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2007, pp. 19-20 available on the web
"Radioactive Hype," National Interest, Sep./Oct. 2007, pp. 59-65 available on the web
"The Terrorism Industry: The Profits of
Doom," in George Kassimeris (ed.), Playing Politics with Terrorism: A
User's Guide (
"Fear Not: Notes from a naysayer," Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, March/April 2007, pp. 30-37. available on the web
"What If We Leave? When nightmare scenarios are used to justify
endless war, it's time to wake up," American Conservative, February
26, 2007 available on
the web
"
"Ask This: Ten questions about Homeland Security," Nieman Watchdog,
Nieman Foundation for Journalism,
"Vers la fin de la guerre?"
Politique Étrangčre 4:2006, 863-75
"Outfront Q & A: Protecting Our Golf Courses," Forbes,
November 27, 2006, p. 54, as interviewed by Susan Adams
"Terror doesn't add up," essay on Guardian (UK) comment is free
website, November 20, 2006 available on
the web
"Residual Warfare: John Mueller on the future of terrorism," Reason,
October 2006, pp. 32-34, as interviewed by Nick Gillespie
"Is There A Still a Terrorist Threat? The Myth of
the Omnipresent Enemy," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006,
pp. 2-8. Roundtable followup discussion on "Is There A Still a Terrorist
Threat?" with James Fallows, Jessica Stern, Fawaz Gerges, and Paul Pillar
on Foreign Affairs website available on
the web
"Reflections on What, If Anything, 'Are We Safer' Might Mean,"
September 2006. Lead essay and discussion (with Clark Kent Irwin, Veronique de
Rugy, and Timothy Naftali) on Cato Unbound website available on
the web
"Terrorism, Overreaction, and
Globalization," in Richard N. Rosecrance and
Arthur A. Stein (eds.), No
"Accounting for the Waning of Major War," in Raimo Väyrynen (ed.), The
Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates (
"The Cost of War," Foreign Affairs, January‑February
2006, dialog with Christopher Gelpi on public opinion
"The Iraq Syndrome," Foreign Affairs, November‑December
2005, pp. 44‑54 available on
the web
"Force, Legitimacy,
Success, and
"Six Rather Unusual Propositions about Terrorism," 17 Terrorism and Political Violence 487‑505 (Autumn 2005) available on the web
"Response," 17 Terrorism and
Political Violence 523‑528 (Autumn 2005). Reply to comments published in the journal
about the "Six Propositions" article by Richard Betts, Daniel Byman, and Martha Crenshaw available on
the web
"Ordering the New World," in Michael Bothe, Mary Ellen
O'Connell, and Natalino Ronzitti
(eds.), Redefining Sovereignty: The Use of Force After
the Cold War (
"Ask this: Why not cool down the terrorism rhetoric a little?" Nieman Watchdog, Questions the Press Should Ask,
September 23, 2005, published
on the web at Nieman Watchdog
"Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration," 6 International Studies Perspectives, 155-73 (May 2005) available on the web
"What Was the Cold War About?
Evidence from Its Ending," 119 Political
Science Quarterly 609-31 (Winter 2004-05) available on
the web
"Why Isn't There More Violence?" 13 Security Studies 191-203 (Spring 2004) available on the web
"Attitudes Toward Democracy and
Capitalism: A Western Benchmark," in Janos Kornai
and Susan Rose Ackerman (eds.), Building a Trustworthy State: Problems of
Post Socialist Transition (
"Policing the Remnants of War," 40 Journal of Peace Research 507-18 (September 2003) available on the web
"Police Work
or War? Public reactions
to dates of infamy," Public Perspective, March/April 2003, pp.
31-34
"Harbinger of Aberration?" National Interest, Fall 2002, pp. 45-50 available on the web
"Public Support for Military
Ventures Abroad: Evidence from the Polls," in Robert T. Turner (ed.), The Real Lessons of the Vietnam War:
Reflections Twenty-Five Years After the Fall of Saigon (
"American Foreign Policy and Public
Opinion in a New Era: Eleven Propositions," in Barbara Norrander
and Clyde Wilcox (eds.), Understanding Public
Opinion, 2nd edition (
"The Banality of 'Ethnic War,'" 25 International Security 42-70 (Summer 2000) available on the web
(with Karl
Mueller) "The Methodology of Mass Destruction: Assessing Threats in the
New World Order," 23 Journal of Strategic Studies 163-87 (March
2000); also published in Eric Herring (ed.), "Preventing
the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (
"The Rise of the Politically
Incorrect One-Handed Economist," in John Mueller (ed.), Peace,
Prosperity, and Politics (
"Public Opinion, War, and the
Military," The
"The Rise, Decline, and
Shallowness of Militant Nationalism in
"Duelling Counterfactuals," in John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May, and Jonathan Rosenberg (eds.), Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (London: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 272-83 available on the web
(with Karl Mueller) "Sanctions of Mass Destruction," 78 Foreign Affairs 43-53 (May/June 1999) available on the web
"Democracy: Optimal
Illusions and Grim Realities," Research Monograph Series, Center for
the Study of Democracy,
"The Escalating Irrelevance of
Nuclear Weapons," in T.V. Paul, Richard J. Harknett,
and James J. Wirtz (eds.), The
Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 73-98
"The Common Sense," National
Interest 81-88 (Spring 1997)
"Democracy, Capitalism, and the
End of Transition," in Michael Mandelbaum (ed.),
Post-Communism: Four Perspectives (New York: Council on Foreign Relations
Press, 1996), pp. 102-67
"Nine Propositions about the
Historical Impact of Nuclear Weapons," in Jřrn Gjelstad and Olav Njřlstad
(eds.), Nuclear Rivalry and International Order (London and Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996), pp. 55-74
"Foreign Policy Principles for
Unthreatened Wealth-seekers," Foreign Policy 22-33 (Spring
1996)
"Capitalism and the Milk of
Human Kindness," in Pavol Karasz,
Jana Plichtová, Vladimír Krivý (eds.), Economics & Politics (Bratislava,
Slovakia: Slovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation, 1995), pp.
88-95
"Minorities and the Democratic
Image," 9 East European Politics and Societies 513-22 (Fall
1995)
"Le
concept de puissance et la politique internationale depuis la fin de la guerre froide," 26 Études
internationales 711-27 (Décembre
1995). Also published in
Michel Fortmann, S. Neil MacFarlane,
and Stéphane Roussel (eds.), Tous pour un ou chacun pour
soi: Promesses et limites
de las coopération régionale
en matičre de sécurité
(Québec: Institut québécois
des hautes études internationales,
1996), pp. 71-87.
"The Perfect Enemy: Assessing
the Gulf War," 5 Security Studies 77-117 (Autumn
1995)
"The Catastrophe Quota: Trouble
After the Cold War," 38 Journal of Conflict
Resolution 355-75, September 1994 (also in Polish in Spoeczestwo
Otwarte,
"The Impact of Ideas on Grand
Strategy," in Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A.
Stein (eds), The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 48-62
"American Public Opinion and
the Gulf War," in
"American Public Opinion and the Gulf War: Some Polling Issues," 57 Public Opinion Quarterly 80-91, Spring 1993 available on the web
"Theory and Democracy" 36 American
Journal of Political Science 1015-22 (November 1992)
"Democracy and Ralph's Pretty
Good Grocery: Elections, Equality and the Minimal Human Being," 36 American
Journal of Political Science 983-1003 (November 1992)
"Dueling, War and the Utility
of Force: A Response to Akhtar Majeed,"
23 Bulletin of Peace Proposals 103-7 (March 1992)
"Quiet Cataclysm: Some
Afterthoughts About World War III," 16 Diplomatic
History 66-75 (Winter 1992). Also in Michael J. Hogan (ed.), The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and
Implications (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 39-52
"
"Preaching to the Choir: Strike
Up the Band and War," essay in the liner
notes for the 1991 recording of the Gershwin-Kaufman Strike Up the Band
"Eaters, Watchers, and
Revolutionaries," program note, Scottish National Opera production of Marc
Blitzstein's
"War: Natural, but not
Necessary," in Robert A. Hinde (ed.), The
Institution of War (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 13-29
"Changing Attitudes Towards
War: The Impact of the First World War," 21 British Journal of
Political Science 1-28 (January 1991)
"Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons,
Morality, and War," in Charles W. Kegley, Jr.
and Kenneth L. Schwab (eds.), After the Cold War: Questioning the Morality
of Nuclear Deterrence (Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1991), pp. 69-97
"
"Taking Peace Seriously: Two
Proposals," in Robert Jervis and Seweryn Bialer (eds.), Soviet-American Relations After the Cold War (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
1991), pp. 262-75
"The Obsolescence of Major
War," 21 Bulletin of Peace Proposals 321-28 (September 1990)
"A New Concert of
"The Essential Irrelevance of
Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World," 13 International
Security 55-79 (Fall 1988) available on the web
"Trends in Political Tolerance," 52 Public Opinion Quarterly 1-25 (Spring 1988) available on the web
Vietnam and the Mellowing of
Containment: Implications for American Foreign Policy Attitudes," in
George K. Osborn, Asa A. Clark IV, Daniel J. Kaufman,
and Douglas E. Lute (eds.), Democracy, Strategy, and Vietnam: Implications
for American Policymaking (Lexington, MA: Lexington, 1987), pp.
297-310.
"The Cold War Consensus: From
Fearful Hostility to Wary Contempt," in Richard A. Melanson
and Kenneth W. Thompson (eds.), Foreign Policy and Domestic Consensus
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985), pp. 7-18
"Reassessment of American
Policy, 1965-1968," in Harrison E.
"Reflections on the Vietnam Protest Movement and on the Curious Calm at the War's End," in Peter Braestrup (ed.), Vietnam as History (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), pp. 151-57 available on the web
"A Summary of Public Opinion
and the Vietnam War," in Peter Braestrup (ed.),
"
"The Search for the 'Breaking
Point' in
"Public Expectations of War During the Cold War," 23 American Journal of
Political Science 301-29 (May 1979)
"Changes in American Public
Attitudes Toward International Involvement," in Ellen Stern (ed.), The
Limits of Military Intervention(Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1977),
pp. 323-44
"A Project Autobiography: War,
Presidents, and Public Opinion," in James N. Rosenau
(ed.), In Search of Global Patterns (New York: Free Press, 1976), pp.
111-43
"Public Opinion and the
President," in Rexford G. Tugwell and Thomas E.
Cronin (eds.), The Presidency Reappraised
(New York: Praeger, 1974), pp. 133-47
"Conclusions from the Public
Opinion Polls: Comparisons with
"Trends in Popular Support for
the Wars in
"Choosing Among 133 Candidates," 34 Public Opinion Quarterly 395-402 (Fall 1970) available on the web
"The Political Scientist
Decides: An Examination of the 1969 APSA Ballots," PS, Summer 1970, pp. 311-20
"Presidential Popularity from
Truman to Johnson," 64 American Political Science Review 18-34
(March 1970)
"Voting on the Propositions,"
63 American Political Science Review 1197-1212 (December 1969)
"The Use of Content Analysis in
International Relations," in George Gerbner
(ed.), The Analysis of Communication Content
(New York: Wiley, 1969), pp. 187-97
"Fluoridation Attitude Change,"
58 American Journal of Public Health 1876-82 (October 1968); reprinted
in 28 The Health Education Journal (
"Incentives for Restraint:
"Some Comments on Russett's `Discovering Voting Groups in the United
Nations,'" 61 American Political Science Review 146-48 (March
1967)
(with R.N. Rosecrance) "Decision-Making and the Quantitative
Analysis of International Relations," Year Book of World Affairs 1967
(London: Stevens, 1967), pp. 1-19
"Il Fluoro della Discordia," Mercurio
(Rome, December 1966)
34-38
"The Politics of Fluoridation
in Seven California Cities," 19 Western Political Quarterly 54-67
(March 1966)
"Suggestions for the Use of Simple
Experimental Methods in Political Research," 18 Western Political
Quarterly 42-43 (September 1965, Supplement)
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
"Salvador, Vietnam and Other
Ventures," February 14, 1984
"Vietnam Involvement Was a Failure, Not a Folly," April 10, 1984
"Steering a Path Between Risks and Benefits to Life," August 13, 1984
"Lessons Learned Five Years After the Hostage Nightmare," November 6,
1984
"Crime Is Caused by the Young and Reckless," March 6, 1985
"The Bomb's Pretense as Peacemaker," June 4, 1985
"Backward Goes the Doomsday Clock," June 3, 1986
"Presidents and Terrorists Should Not Mix," March 31, 1987
"Arms Reduction: Don't Talk, Just Do It," June 1, 1988
"New, Improved Opiates for the Masses!" May 23, 1989
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Dropping Out of the War System,"
September 12, 1988
"In Europe, Time to Give Peace a Chance, Combining NATO and the
"Why Build New California Universities When Eastern Classrooms Go
Begging?" July 16, 1989
"Democracy: All They Need to Do Is Catch the Bug," November 19, 1989
"
"Perspective on `The Vision Thing': Stay the Benign, Unruffled
Course," May 14, 1990
"The Real Infamy Was an Unnecessary War," December 6, 1991
"If Killing Is Down, Are Guns Out? Are Dads In?" September 9, 1992
"Depressed by Politics? Some Words of Cheer," October 31, 1996
"2,000 dead‑‑will it doom the war?" October 26,
2005. Also published under the title, "Why this unpopular war has no
tipping point," in Christian Science Monitor, November 1, 2005
"Dead and Deader," January 20, 2008 available on the
web
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
NEW YORK TIMES
"Will
"A Quick Victory? It Better Be," January 19, 1991
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
"False Alarms," Sunday,
September 29, 2002, p. B7 available on
the web
"Cameras and Credibility,"
February 4, 2003, p. A25
ARTICLES IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
"Conclusions from the Public
Opinion Polls: Comparisons with
"Enough Rope: The Cold War Was Lost, Not Won," July 3, 1989, pp.
14-16
"Well Off: Good riddance, McCain-Feingold," November 15, 1999, pp.
21-22
ARTICLES IN REASON
"St. Phineas: How P.T. Barnum helped create business ethics," March 2001, pp. 54-57 available on the web
"What's the Rush?"
"Suicide Watch," and "Deterring the Egomaniac Dictator,"
three essays as part of an online debate with Brink Lindsey, "Should We
Invade
ARTICLE IN THE AMERICAN
"Democracy vs.
Capitalism," March 2002, pp. 44-45
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"The Lonely Commander:
President is threatening a war Americans don't want to fight," November
18, 1990
ARTICLES IN IDEAS OR CURRENTS
SECTION OF THE SUNDAY
"Peace Has Broken
Out," March 26, 1989
"Enemies? No, Allies!" December 3, 1989
"Key to European Security Is Still the
"On
ARTICLES POSTED ON THE HISTORY
NEWS NETWORK
The Politics of Cutting and Running,
May 24, 2004
Anti-War? Unenthusiastic About Kerry? The Recipe for a Bush Victory, May 3, 2004
ARTICLES IN PERSPECTIVE SECTION
OF THE
"The Art of a Deal: No Rewards
for Iraqi Aggression," December 16, 1990
"Thoughts on a Quiet Cataclysm: Are we beyond global conflict?"
September 1, 1991
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"Vietnam protests didn't end the war," February 20, 1991
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN AFTENPOSTEN
(
(with
Karl Mueller) "Nei til masseřdeleggelsessankjoner," March 12, 2001,
p. 12
FEATURE ARTICLES IN MOSTY
(
"Pokojná
kataklizma: Tretiu svetovú u máme za sebou," November 21, 1995
"Pokojná kataklizma: Honba za problémami,"
November 28, 1995
"Pokojná kataklizma: Vojna: prirodzená, ale nie nevyhnutná," December 5,
1995
"Pokojná kataklizma: Nemoderná inštitúcia--vojna," December 12, 1995
"Pokojná kataklizma: Predpovedané katastrofy,"
December 27, 1995
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS ALSO IN DALLAS MORNING
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The Remnants of War received the Joseph P. Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations in 2004, awarded by Georgetown University
Guggenheim Fellowship: Deterrence,
Stability and the Potential Obsolescence of Major War, 1988
War, Presidents and Public
Opinion selected as one of
the "Fifty Books That Significantly Shaped Public Opinion Research,
1946-1995" by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Public
Opinion Quarterly, Fall 1995. Recipient of
the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinon Research
presented by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, November 8, 2007
Edward Peck Curtis Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of
Honorary Member, Golden Key National
Honor Society (1995)
Teacher of the Year,
National Science Foundation: Public
Opinion in Wartime, 1967-68
National Science Foundation: Public
Opinion in Wartime, 1968-70
National Science Foundation: Public
Expectations About War, 1974-75
Listed in Who's Who
in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Contemporary
Authors, Who's Who in 2Oth Century America, Who's Who in the Midwest
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Member, Board of Overseers, General
Social Survey,
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Book reviews in New York Times
Sunday Book Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of
Politics, Armed Forces and Society, Political Science Quarterly,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Public
Opinion Quarterly
Adviser, "Vietnam: A Television
History," WGBH,
Official Representative,
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1979-84
Co-Editor, Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management, 1985-89
Editorial Board, Public Opinion
Quarterly, 1988-1991
Editorial Board, Journal of Cold
War Studies, 1999-
Chairman, Department of Political
Science, University of Rochester, 1989-91
Participant, NATO Discussion Series,
Atlantic Council,
Member, Advisory Committee, Center
for Polish and Central European Studies,
Director,
Editorial Board,
PAPERS, LECTURES,
SEMINARS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE SINCE 1986 (pdf)
AWARDS, HONORS IN DANCE AND FILM
de la Torre Bueno
Prize, presented by Dance Perspectives Foundation, to Astaire Dancing: The
Musical Films for "the most distinguished book-length manuscript in the
field of dance," 1983
Listed in Who's Who in the World,
Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Contemporary
Authors, Who's Who in 20th Century America, Who's Who in the Midwest
DVDS PRODUCED
(Distributed by Dance Film
Archive,
Fire Dance. 2004. Features the famous Loďe Fuller solo from 1896 as reconstructed and performed by Jessica Lindberg. The DVD includes a studio performance of the work, a studio performance with audio commentary by Jessica Lindberg and Megan Slayter, a studio performance edited from several camera angles by Shawn Hove, a studio performance accompanied by the notated score, a live performance recorded from two camera angles which the viewer can toggle between using the angle button, a documentary on "Loďe Fuller: Her Life and Art," a documentary on "Reconstructing Loďe Fuller's Fire Dance," and archival films from 1897-1905 of Loďe Fuller and her imitators. DVD authoring by Shawn Hove.
Gaîté Parisienne. 2006. Features Victor Jessen's film, taken between 1945 and 1955, of performances of the famous Leonide Massine ballet by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Also audio commentary by one of the leading dancers of the era, Frederic Franklin, a documentary on the ballet, a documentary on Jessen, and an interview with Franklin. DVD authoring by Shawn Hove. The DVD is distributed commercially by Video Artists International as well as by OSU's Dance Film Archive.
Symphonie Fantastique. 2008. Features a work film, with
synchronized piano music of the Leonide Massine ballet in a 1949 performance by
the Royal Danish Ballet. Includes explanatory titles. DVD authoring by Shawn Hove. The DVD is distributed
commercially by Video Artists International as well as by OSU's Dance Film
Archive. Extensive notes on the film can be found on VAI’s
website.
FILMS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED
(Distributed by Dance Film
Archive,
Afternoon of a
Faun. 11 min., 1973 (still
photographs and drawings of the original Nijinsky ballet synchronized with
music score)
Dying Swan. 3 min., 1973 (still photographs synchronized
with music score to show the original choreography by Fokine)
Light Part 5. 20 min., 1976 (filming
of the Kei Takei dance work as performed by Takei and company)
Royal Danish Ballet 1902-1906. 14
min., 1979 (processing of historic silent film and addition of synchronized
music)
The Traitor. 19 min., 1979 (processing of historic silent
film from 1955 showing a performance of the Jose Limon work as danced by the
original cast, and synchronization of the music score)
Two Ecstatic Themes: Two
Performances. 13 min., 1980 (filming of the classic Doris Humphrey solo as
performed by Nina Watt and Carla Maxwell of the Jose Limon Dance Company)
Symphonie Fantastique. 51
min., 1980 (processing of a historic silent film of the Leonide
Massine ballet, and addition of synchronized music)
St. Francis (Nobilissima
Visione). 39 min., 1982 (processing of a historic
silent film of the Leonide Massine ballet as danced
by the original cast, and addition of synchronized
music)
Seventh Symphony. 32 min., 1982 (processing of a historic
silent film of the Leonide Massine ballet as danced
by the original cast, and addition of synchronized
music)
Water Study. 22 min., 1982 (filming of the classic Doris
Humphrey group work as performed by dancers under the direction of Ernestine Stodelle)
Bonnie Bird Demonstrates Graham
Technique, 1938-39. 11 min., 1986 (processing of historic silent film)
Gaite Parisienne. 38
min., 1986 (processing of historic film) (distributed 1988 in videocassette by
Video Arts International,
PUBLICATIONS IN DANCE, FILM, AND
MUSICAL THEATER: ARTICLES
"Dance on Film" in Mary
Clark and David Vaughan (eds.), The
Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet (New York: Putnam, 1977)
"The Value, Use, and
Availability of Dance Films," in
"Filmed Dance and Dance Films,"
Ballett 1978 (Frankfurt), pp. 24-27
"The Oldest Ballet Movie,"
Dance Magazine, July 1979, pp. 40-43
"Film and Videotape as Teaching
Tools," Dance Critics' Association News, December 1979
"Is Giselle a Virgin?" Dance
Chronicle Vol. 4, No. 2 (1981), pp. 151-54
"The Filmed Dances of Fred
Astaire," Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Vol. 6 (Spring 1981),
pp. 135-54; reprinted as "Fred Astaire. Verfilming van zijn
dansnummers," Versus (
"Images
de Nijinski," L'Avant-Scene Ballet/Danse (Paris), no. 7, 1981
"Limon's Tormented
Traitor," Dance Magazine, May 1981, pp. sc-26-30
"Watching an American Screen
Original," Dance Magazine, May 1984, pp. 131-35
"Fred Astaire and the
Integrated Musical," Cinema Journal, Fall
1984, pp. 28-40
Analytic lecture on the second sound
track of The Criterion Collection laserdisc edition of the film, Swing Time
(New York and Los Angeles: Janus Films and Voyager Press, 1986)
(with Don McDonagh), "Making Musical Dance," Ballet
Review, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 23-44
"Fred Astaire," Encyclopedia
of World Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), pp. 73-74
"The Astaire Illusion," Dance
Magazine, November 1987, pp. 34-35
"The White Swan Adagio, " in Janice Ross and Stephen Cobbett Steinberg
(eds.), Why a Swan? (San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts
Library and Museum, March 1989), pp. 25-29
"Eaters, Watchers, and
Revolutionaries," program note, Scottish National Opera production of Marc
Blitzstein's
"Preaching to the Choir: Strike
Up the Band and War," essay in the liner notes
for the 1991 recording of the Gershwin-Kaufman Strike Up the Band
"The Gershwins
and the Astaires," essay in the liner notes for the
1992 recording of the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good!
"Fred Astaire" in International Encyclopedia
of Dance (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
"The Gershwin-Wodehouse
Connection," essay in programme for A Foggy
Day, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1998
"Fred Astaire," American
National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 693-95
"Ginger Rogers," American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 756-57
Full‑length commentary track for the Fred Astaire‑Ginger
Rogers film, Swing Time, released on DVD by Warner Home Video, autumn
2005. Also interviewed for short
documentaries later distributed on the Warner Home Video DVDs of Top Hat,
Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, Shall We Dance, and The Barkleys of Broadway.
Interviewed
SCRIPTS FOR MUSICAL COMEDIES
A Foggy Day. A musical comedy
created by incorporating songs by George and Ira Gershwin into a play by P. G.
Wodehouse and Ian Hay. 1984.
Produced (under the title
"Reaching for the Moon") by Eastman Opera Theatre, Eastman School of
Music, Rochester, NY, October 30-November 3, 1987 (7 performances).
Produced (co-written by Norm Foster)
by the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, May 5-November 1,
1998 (126 performances).
Produced (co-written by Norm Foster)
by the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, April 29-November
14, 1999 (135 performances).
One for My Baby. An expansion
and development for the stage of a film script (The Sky's the Limit) adding
songs mostly with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. 1985. Professional reading, Geva Theatre,
GRANTS FROM THE NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
"Development of Teaching
Materials for Media-Based Dance Appreciation Courses" 1972-73
"Increasing the Availability of Dance Films" 1974-75
"Increasing the Availability of Dance Films" 1977-78
"Processing and Distributing Massine Ballet Films" 1979-81
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES IN DANCE
AND FILM
Director, Dance Film
Archive, University of Rochester, 1983-2000, Ohio State University,
2000-
Faculty member at Dance Critics
Institutes at American Dance Festival, Connecticut College and Duke University
(1977-1980); University of Texas; London Dance Umbrella (1981); University of
Iowa (1984); Dance in Canada Conference, Vancouver (1986)
Dance critic, Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, 1974-82
Member, Dance Panel, New York State
Arts Council, 1976-78
Member, Advisory Board, Dance in America
(PBS), 1975
Participant, Film and Humanities
Summer Institute, American Film Institute (
Co-organizer and chief adviser,
Early Years Dance Festival, SUNY Purchase, 1981
Member of the Board, Dance Critics
Association, 1983-85
Member, Dance Panel, National
Endowment for the Arts, 1983-85
Editorial Board,
Columnist on dance
films, Dance Magazine, 1974-82 list of
columns
Supervision and transferring of the OSU
Dance Film Archive film to videocassette from the "Seventh Symphony,"
which was used by the Cincinnati Ballet to mount one movement from the work
(for the first time in over 50 years) for their Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo season, October 18-19, 2002. The Cincinnati Ballet then
mounted the entire work from the film, performing it October 8-9, 2004.
Keynote speaker, Fred Astaire: The Conference, Oriel College, Oxford University,
June 2008
BOOK REVIEWS
William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2007, pp. 55-56
Andrew J. Bacevich
and Efraim Inbar (eds.), The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered. Journal of Cold War
Studies, Winter 2005, pp. 191-93
Mark E. Pietrzyk,
International Order and Individual
Yahya Sadowski, The Myth of Global Chaos. Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, September 2000, pp. 206-7
Christopher,
Coker, War and the Illiberal Conscience. International History Review, December 1999, pp. 1123-25
Charles Hamm, Irving Berlin: Songs
from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1919. New York Times Sunday
Book Review, April 27, 1997, p. 23.
William H. McNeill, Keeping Together
in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. New York Times Sunday Book Review,
October 22, 1995, p. 22.
Richard Barrios, A
Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. New York Times Sunday Book
Review, June 24, 1995, p. 24.
Stephen Citron, Noel and Cole: The
Sophisticates. New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 6, 1993, p.
24.
Michael Howard, The
Lessons of History. American Political Science Review, September 1992,
pp. 842-43.
Ginger Rogers, Ginger: My Story. New
York Times Sunday Book Review, October 20, 1991, pp. 14-15.
Ellen Frey-Wouters
and Robert S. Laufer, Legacy of a War: The American
Soldier in Vietnam. Public Opinion Quarterly, Spring
1988, pp. 154-56.
Allan E. Goodman, The
Lost Peace: America's Search for a Negotiated Settlement of the Vietnam
War. Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1979,
pp. 541-42.
Herbert Y. Schandler,
The Unmaking of the President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.
American Political Science Review, December 1978, pp. 1434-36
Klaus Knorr, On the Uses of Military Power in the Nuclear Age; Bernard Brodie, Escalation and the Nuclear Option. American Political Science Review, December 1967, pp. 1109-10.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
"Aversion to
war" and "Overreaction as a cause of violent conflict," International
Encyclopedia of Peace, forthcoming
"The War on Terror," Encyclopedia
of Libertarianism (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2008)
"Public
Opinion and Policy in Wartime," Encyclopedia of War & American
Society (
"Should Campaign Financing Be Reformed? Campaign Finance Reform Is Not
Necessary" (Point/Counterpoint sidebar), Encarta, posted 2000
"Public Opnion," Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1983
LECTURES/FILM SHOWINGS
ON FRED ASTAIRE