September 3, 2009

VITA AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MUELLER

Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science
Ohio State University

Mershon Center
1501 Neil Avenue
Columbus
, OH 43201-2602 USA

614-247-6007
614-292-2407 (fax)
bbbb@osu.edu

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Citizenship: USA
Born: St. Paul, Minnesota
Marital Status: Married, three children 

EDUCATION

A.B., 1960--University of Chicago
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 California

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, terror 

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

Dance Film Archive

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Atomic Obsession (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009)

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (New York: Free Press, 2006). Information about this book.

The Remnants of War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004; paperback edition with a new preface, 2007). Received the Joseph P. Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations in 2004, awarded by Georgetown University.

(ed.), Peace, Prosperity, and Politics (New York: Westview, 2000) 

Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) (Ukrainian translation, 2003; Russian translation by Olimp-Biznes, Moscow, 2006)

(ed. with Randall L. Calvert and Rick K. Wilson) William H. Riker, The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996) 

Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics (New York: HarperCollins, 1995) available on the web

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 on the web

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

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

(ed.) Approaches to Measurement in International Relations: A Non-Evangelical Survey (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969)

Canada as a Non-Nuclear Power (Los Angeles: University of California, National Security Studies Program, 1963)


PUBLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: ARTICLES

"Assessing Measures Designed to Protect the Homeland," Policy Studies Journal, forthcoming, 2010  available on the web

"This Just In: War Has Almost Ceased to Exist," 124 Political Science Quarterly 297-321 (Summer 2009)

"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?" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 7-15

"Inflating Terrorism," in Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall (eds.), Threat Inflation: The Theory, Politics, and Psychology of Fear Mongering in the United States (Routledge, forthcoming)

"Are We Correctly Assessing and Addressing Terrorist Threats?" in Stuart Gottlieb (ed.), Debating Terrorism and  Counterterrorism (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, forthcoming)

"Faulty Correlation, Foolish Consistency, and Fatal Consequence: Democracy, Peace, and Theory in the Middle East," in Steven H. Hook (ed.), Democratic Peace and Promotion: Critical Perspectives (Kent State University Press, forthcoming) available on the web

"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 (but published in 2009)), pp. 139-147

"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 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming)

(with Ian S. Lustick) "Israel's Fight-or-Flight Response," National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2008, pp. 68-71

"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 (London: Hurst, and New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 301-20

"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


"Vietnam and Iraq: Strategy, Exit, and Syndrome," in John Dumbrell and David Ryan (eds.), Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, lessons, legacies, and ghosts (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 179-92


"Ask This: Ten questions about Homeland Security," Nieman Watchdog, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, February, 16, 2007


"Vers la fin de la guerre?" Politique Étrangère 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 More States? Globalization, National Self‑Determination, and Terrorism (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 47-74.

 

"Accounting for the Waning of Major War," in Raimo Väyrynen (ed.), The Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 64-79.


"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 Iraq," 31 Review of International Studies 109-25 (2005). Special issue also published as a book: David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguashca (eds.), Force and Legitimacy in World Politics (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005)  available on the web

"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 (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2005), pp. 65‑88.

 

"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

"A False Sense of Insecurity?" Regulation, Fall 2004, pp. 42-46  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 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 198-213 

"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 (DurhamNCCarolina Academic Press, 2002), pp. 173-219

"American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in a New Era: Eleven Propositions," in Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox (eds.), Understanding Public Opinion, 2nd edition (WashingtonDC: CQ Press, 2002), pp. 149-72 

"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 (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp. 163-87 

"The Rise of the Politically Incorrect One-Handed Economist," in John Mueller (ed.), Peace, Prosperity, and Politics (New York: Westview, 2000), pp. 53-89 

"Public Opinion, War, and the Military," The Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 578-79

"The Rise, Decline, and Shallowness of Militant Nationalism in Europe," in Ewa Hauser and Jacek Wasilewski (eds.), Lessons in Democracy (Kraków, Poland and Rochester, NY: Jagiellonian University Press and University of Rochester Press, 1999), pp. 73-97. 

"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, University of CaliforniaIrvine, 1999 

"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 Jørn Gjelstad and Olav Njølstad (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 matière 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 OtwarteWarsawPoland, March 1995) 

"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 Stanley A. Renshon (ed.), The Political Psychology of the Gulf War: Leaders, Publics, and the Process of Conflict (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), pp. 199-226 

"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 

"Pearl Harbor: Military Inconvenience, Political Disaster," 16 International Security 172-203 (Winter 1991/92) available on the web

"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 Regina

"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 

"Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf," The Polling Report, Vol. 7, No. 4, February 18, 1991, pp. 1, 7-8 

"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 Europe," Foreign Policy, No. 77, Winter 1989-90, pp. 3-16 

"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. Salisbury (ed.), Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from a War (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), pp. 48-52 

"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.), Vietnam as History (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), pp. 171-77 

"Vietnam Revised," 9 Armed Forces and Society 167-73 (Fall 1982) 

"The Search for the 'Breaking Point' in Vietnam: The Statistics of a Deadly Quarrel," 24 International Studies Quarterly 497-519 (December 1980) available on the web

"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 Korea," New Republic, February 3, 1973, pp. 22-24 

"Trends in Popular Support for the Wars in Korea and Vietnam" 65 American Political Science Review 358-76 (June 1971) 

"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 (UK) 29-36 (March 1969) 

"Incentives for Restraint: Canada as a Non-Nuclear Power," 11 Orbis 864-84 (Fall 1967) 

"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 WALL STREET JOURNAL

"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 Warsaw Pact," April 9, 1989

"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


"Summit: A New Order May Not Need Much Order," November 28, 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 America Stand a Stalemate in Iraq?" August 27, 1990
"A Quick Victory? It Better Be," January 19, 1991 

EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE WASHINGTON POST

"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 Korea," February 3, 1973, pp. 22-24
"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 Iraq?" posted on Reason.com in October 2002 and published in the magazine, January 2003, pp. 43-48 

ARTICLE IN THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE

"Democracy vs. Capitalism," March 2002, pp. 44-45 

EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL/ATLANTA CONSTITUTION

"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 NEW YORK NEWSDAY

"Peace Has Broken Out," March 26, 1989
"Enemies? No, Allies!" December 3, 1989
"Key to European Security Is Still the U.S." October 6, 1991
"On Iraq, Dems do best to keep it vague," July 25, 2006

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 SUNDAY ARIZONA REPUBLIC

"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 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Vietnam protests didn't end the war," February 20, 1991 

EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

"Ohio's homeland‑security costs hard to justify," August 27, 2005, p. A10.

EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN AFTENPOSTEN (OSLO, NORWAY)

(with Karl Mueller) "Nei til masseødeleggelsessankjoner," March 12, 2001, p. 12 

FEATURE ARTICLES IN MOSTY (BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA)

"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 ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, ROCHESTER TIMES-UNION, PEORIA JOURNAL STAR, COLUMBUS DISPATCH, KENTUCKY ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, ORLANDO SENTINAL, OTTAWA CITIZEN, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD,  MONTREAL GAZETTE,  EL PAIS (MADRID)


GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

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 Rochester, 1997 

Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society (1995) 

Teacher of the Year, University of Rochester, Interfraternity Council, 1995

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

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected May 1990) 

OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

Member, Board of Overseers, General Social Survey, National Opinion Research Center 

Contributor, Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

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, Boston, 1983 

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, Brussels, Maastricht, and Geilenkirchen, June 21-26, 1992 

Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester, 1994- 

Director, Watson Center for the Study of International Peace and Cooperation, University of Rochester, 1993-1999 

Editorial Board, Ohio State University Press, 2001-04 

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, Ohio State University

Fire Dance. 2004. Features the famous Loïe 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 "Loïe Fuller: Her Life and Art," a documentary on "Reconstructing Loïe Fuller's Fire Dance," and archival films from 1897-1905 of Loïe 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.

FILMS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED
(Distributed by
Dance Film Archive, Ohio State University)

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, New York

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 Selma Landen Odom (ed.), Dance and Film (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1977) 

"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 (Nijmegen, Netherlands), March 1983, pp. 9-20 

"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 Regina 

"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 for the documentary, Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm, by Sparkhill Productions for the Warner Home Video "Astaire and Rogers: The Complete Film Collection," an 11 DVD set released in 2006.


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, Rochester, NY, June 7, 1999

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 (Beverly Hills, CA), 1979 

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, Ohio State University Press, 2001-04 

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 Liberty: Effects of War an d Peace on the Development of Governments. The Independent Review, Fall 2003, pp. 310-12 

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 (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2005)


"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