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Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish author, academic, and environmental writer. He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1965 (age 45 years)
Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born 27 October 1952) is an American philosopher, political economist, and author.
Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His father, Yoshio Fukuyama, a second-generation Japanese-American,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1952 (age 57 years)
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (pronounced /ˈjɜrɡən or ˈjʊrɡən ˈhɑːbərˌmɑːs/; German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡən ˈhaːbɐmaːs]; born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for...
Date of birth:
- Jun 18, 1929 (age 80 years)
Thomas Hare
Thomas Hare (born in England, 28 March 1806; died 6 May 1891) was a British proponent of electoral reform. He studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in November 1833 and published several works on judges' decisions. In 1853 he became Inspector of...
Date of birth:
- 1806
Date of death:
- 1891 (age 85 years)
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1856
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1924 (age 67 years)
Warren Farrell
Warren Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American author of seven books on men and women's issues. His books cover twelve fields: history, law, sociology and politics (The Myth of Male Power); couples’ communication (Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1943 (age 66 years)
William H. Riker
William Harrison Riker (September 22, 1920 – June 26, 1993) was an American political scientist who applied game theory and mathematics to political science.
Riker was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Ph.D at Harvard University in 1948. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 22, 1920
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1993 (age 72 years)
Maurice Duverger
Maurice Duverger (born June 5, 1917) is a French jurist, sociologist and politician. He was born in Angoulême, Charente.
Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1917 (age 92 years)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method....
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1743
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1794 (age 50 years)
Kim Campbell
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, PC, CC, QC (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician who was the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993 (132 days). Campbell was the first and to date the only female...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1947 (age 62 years)
Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (May 4, 1733 – February 19, 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor.
Born in the city of Dax, in 1756 Borda wrote Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles, a product of his work...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1733
Date of death:
- Feb 19, 1799 (age 65 years)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński, pronounced [ˈzbiɡɲev bʐɛˈʑiɲski]; born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1928 (age 81 years)
Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.
Huntington was born on April 18,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1927
Date of death:
- Dec 24, 2008 (age 81 years)
Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002) was a two-term U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected to the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1944
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 2002 (age 58 years)
Harold Lasswell
Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 — December 18, 1978) was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a student at Yale University in political science. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1902
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1978 (age 76 years)
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is a professor, diplomat, author, and national security expert. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush....
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1954 (age 55 years)
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr.
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., is president and CEO of the Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS). He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Washington.
Hawkins notes, "Large schools tend to create passive and compliant students."...
Stephen Walt
Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He did his...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1955 (age 54 years)
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot (pronounced /ˈbædʒət/ BA-jət) (3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was a British businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.
Bagehot was born in Langport, Somerset,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1826
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1877 (age 51 years)
Jack Layton
John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC, MP (born July 18, 1950) is a Canadian social democratic politician and since 2003 has been leader of Canada's New Democratic Party. He is a former member of the Toronto City Council and acting deputy mayor of Toronto,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1950 (age 59 years)
Steven Brams
Steven J. Brams (born November 28, 1940) is a game theorist and political scientist at the New York University department of politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory and public choice to research voting systems and fair...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1940 (age 69 years)
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. A graduate of SUNY Binghamton, he received his Ph...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1953 (age 56 years)
Eric Voegelin
Eric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, (January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, Germany, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna. His advisers on his dissertation...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1901
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1985 (age 84 years)
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Albert Wohlstetter
Albert Wohlstetter (December 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was a major intellectual force behind efforts to avoid the horizontal spread of nuclear weapons. He and his wife Roberta Wohlstetter, an accomplished historian and intelligence expert,...
Date of birth:
- 1913
Date of death:
- 1997 (age 84 years)
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States where took up his trade as a political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1899
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1973 (age 74 years)
Ed Broadbent
John Edward "Ed" Broadbent, PC, CC (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian social democratic politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1975 to 1989. In the 2004 federal election, he returned to...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1936 (age 73 years)
Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod (born 1943) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to moving to Michigan,...
Date of birth:
- 1943 (age 67 years)
Henry Jones Ford
Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official.
Ford worked as a managing editor and editorial writer from 1872 to 1905, at six different newspapers in three cities (Baltimore, New...
Date of birth:
- 1851
Date of death:
- 1925 (age 74 years)
Jean Bodin
Jean Bodin (1530–1596), born in Angers, was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty (see Divine Right of Kings).
Bodin lived during...
Date of birth:
- 1530
Date of death:
- 1596 (age 66 years)
Raymond Aron
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905, Paris – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known to the broad public for his skeptical analyses of the post-war vogue in France for leftist ideologies...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1905
Date of death:
- Oct 17, 1983 (age 78 years)
R. J. Rummel
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination....
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1932 (age 77 years)
Othmar Spann
Othmar Spann (October 1, 1878, Altmannsdorf, Vienna - July 8, 1950, Neustift bei Schlaining) was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1878
Date of death:
- Jul 8, 1950 (age 71 years)
Bassam Tibi
Bassam Tibi (Arabic: بسام طيبي), born 1944 in Damascus, lives in Germany since 1962 and, since 1976, he is a German citizen. He is a political scientist and Professor of International Relations. He is a Muslim , but a staunch critic of Islamism and...
Date of birth:
- 1944 (age 66 years)
Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake, or William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is a retired American diplomat, political figure, and academic. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1939 (age 70 years)
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1904
Date of death:
- Mar 17, 2005 (age 101 years)
Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian mathematician and sociologist and a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.
Galtung was born in Oslo. He earned the cand.real. degree in mathematics at the University of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 24, 1930 (age 79 years)
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888 – April 7, 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law.
Schmitt published several essays, influential in the 20th century and beyond, on the mentalities that surround the effective wielding of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1888
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 1985 (age 96 years)
Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Norman Axworthy, PC, OC, OM (born December 21, 1939, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a prominent Canadian politician, statesman and University President from Manitoba. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1939 (age 70 years)
Philip Converse
Philip E. Converse, a professor emeritus in political science at the University of Michigan, is a seminal figure in the field of public opinion. His article "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (Ideology and Discontent, edited by David E....
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Elmer Eric Schattschneider (August 11, 1892, Bethany, Minnesota - March 4, 1971, Old Saybrook, Connecticut) was an American political scientist.
He received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1892
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 1971 (age 78 years)
Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp (born 21 January 1928) is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle: he has been called both the "Machiavelli of nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare."
Sharp received a B.A. and an M.A. from Ohio State...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1928 (age 82 years)
Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA (May 1, 1929 – June 17, 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician.
During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament,...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1929
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 2009 (age 80 years)
Luther H. Evans
Luther Harris Evans (13 October 1902 – 23 December 1981) was an American political scientist who served as the tenth Librarian of the United States Congress.
Born in Bastrop County, Texas in 1902, Evans received his bachelor's (1923) and master's ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1902
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1981 (age 79 years)
A. V. Dicey
Albert Venn Dicey (February 4, 1835 – April 7, 1922) was a British jurist and constitutional theorist who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885). The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1835
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 1922 (age 87 years)
Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (Евге́ний Макси́мович Примако́в, born October 29, 1929) is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, the last Speaker of the Soviet of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1929 (age 80 years)
Rein Taagepera
Rein Taagepera (born 28 February 1933) is an Estonian-American political scientist and politician.
Born in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from occupied Estonia in 1944. Taagepera graduated from high school in Marrakech, Morocco and then studied...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1933 (age 76 years)
Roland Perusse
Roland I. Perusse is the author of Haitian Democracy Restored: 1991 -- 1995, a book about the coup-to-democracy period in Haitian political history.
He is Professor of Political Science at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.
George Grant
George Parkin Grant OC, D.Phil., FRSC (November 13, 1918 - September 27, 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1918
Date of death:
- Sep 27, 1988 (age 69 years)
John Roberts
John Moody Roberts, PC, BA, B.Phil, D. Phil (November 28, 1933 – March 30, 2007) was a Canadian politician.
Roberts was born in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1968 as a Liberal...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1933
Date of death:
- Mar 30, 2007 (age 73 years)
David Crombie
David Edward Crombie, PC, OC (born April 24, 1936) is a Canadian politician, professor and consultant.
Crombie was a lecturer in politics and urban affairs at Ryerson in the 1960s when he became involved in Toronto's urban reform movement. At the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 24, 1936 (age 73 years)
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1840
Date of death:
- Apr 12, 1910 (age 69 years)
Robert Putnam
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Robert David Putnam (born 1941 in Port Clinton, Ohio) is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1941 (age 69 years)
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe (born 1943 in Charleroi, Belgium) is a Belgian political theorist. She holds a professorship at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom. She is best known as co-author of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy with Ernesto Laclau...
Date of birth:
- 1943 (age 67 years)
Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967-1973, and led the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of...
Date of birth:
- 1931 (age 79 years)
Joseph Nye
Adapted from bio at http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Joseph_Nye
Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, is the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations. From December of 1995 through June of 2004 he was Dean of the...
Date of birth:
- 1937 (age 73 years)
Eugene Forsey
Eugene Alfred Forsey, PC, CC, FRSC (May 29, 1904 – February 20, 1991) served in the Canadian Senate from 1970 to 1979. He was considered to be one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts.
Born in Grand Bank, Newfoundland and Labrador, he...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1904
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 1991 (age 86 years)
David Truman
David Bicknell Truman (1913-2003) was an American academic who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1969-1978. He is also known for his role as a Columbia University administrator during the Columbia University protests of 1968...
Date of birth:
- 1913
Date of death:
- 2003 (age 90 years)
Gesine Schwan
Gesine Schwan (born 22 May 1943) is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Hans Morgenthau
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a pioneer in the field of international relations theory. He was born in Coburg, Germany, and educated at the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. He taught and practiced law...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1904
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1980 (age 76 years)
