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.
Author(s): Charles L. Taylor, Bruce M. Russett
Series: Pioneers In Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice Vol. 25
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 322
Tags: International Relations, Karl W. Deutsch
Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Biography of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912–1992) (Charles Lewis Taylor, Bruce M. Russett)....Pages 3-14
A Life of Productivity (Charles Lewis Taylor)....Pages 15-47
Front Matter ....Pages 49-49
Peoples, Nations, and Communication (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 51-73
National Assimilation or Differentiation (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 75-102
Communication Models and Decision Systems: Some Implications for Research (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 103-117
Learning Capacity and Creativity in Politics: The Search for Cohesion and Values (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 119-132
Government as a Process of Steering (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 133-146
Political Self-awareness, Autonomy, and Sovereignty (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 147-156
Front Matter ....Pages 157-157
Historical Experience and the Culture of Knowledge: Karl W. Deutsch from Prague to America (Andrei S. Markovits)....Pages 159-170
The Power of Networks: Insights from the Political Cybernetics of Karl W. Deutsch (Hayward R. Alker)....Pages 171-200
Karl Deutsch and the Study of Political Science (Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr.)....Pages 201-217
Three Encounters with Karl W. Deutsch (Miroslav Hroch)....Pages 219-233
Practizing Politics with Alert Senses: Remembering Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992) (Dieter Senghaas)....Pages 235-244
Karl W. Deutsch: Testing Great Ideas Against the Real World: Concepts and Theories Grounded Firmly in Data (Charles Lewis Taylor)....Pages 245-249
Karl W. Deutsch: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Mensch (Peter J. Katzenstein)....Pages 251-253
Karl W. Deutsch Interviewed (Andrei S. Markovits)....Pages 255-262
Karl W. Deutsch and the International Development of the Social Sciences: Researcher, Teacher, Humanist – His Importance for Political Science (Rudolf Wildenmann)....Pages 263-266
Nerves Instead of Muscles – On Peace in the Thinking of Karl W. Deutsch (Rainer Mackensen)....Pages 267-273
Karl Deutsch and Realist Theory in International Politics (Thomas Cusack)....Pages 275-286
“Critical Reverence” – Encomium on Karl W. Deutsch (Klaus von Beyme)....Pages 287-292
A Statement of Thanks (1983) (Karl W. Deutsch)....Pages 293-294
Back Matter ....Pages 295-326
