Francis Beer

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Francis A. Beer
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Born (1939-02-05) February 5, 1939 (age 85)
New York NY
SpouseDiana Darnall Beer
ChildrenOmar Lawrence, Marie Juliette, Jeremy Heywood
Website www.colorado.edu/faculty/beer/

Francis A. Beer is an American professor emeritus of political science, University of Colorado at Boulder. [1] His research focuses on war and peace. Honors and awards include listings in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America, as well as other directories. He was president of the International Studies Association/West and co-edited, with Ted Gurr at the University of Colorado, a series of Sage books on "Violence, Conflict, Cooperation." In addition to two Fulbright awards to France and the Netherlands he has received other awards from the Earhart Foundation, the Institute for World Order, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. At the University of Colorado, he represented the faculty as chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly.

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Biography

Education

Francis A. Beer graduated from the Fay School and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He received his A.B. (1960) from Harvard in government and M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1967) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. [2]

Career

After leaving Harvard, he spent two years in the Philippines as a communications officer with the U.S. Navy, leaving with the rank of Lieutenant. He returned to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed graduate work in political science. He specialized in international relations and received a Fulbright award to France to study the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and took a pre-doctoral year at the Mershon Center of the Ohio State University. He received another Fulbright award to the Netherlands to study the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He subsequently taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Colorado in Boulder. At the University of Colorado, he served as Director of the Conflict and Peace Studies Program and as Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. He was a visiting professor at Cambridge University in England and the University of Bordeaux in France. [3]

Francis A. Beer is the author of such scientific publications: "Meanings of War and Peace", "Peace Against War: The Ecology of International Violence", "Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community". In his publications he considers the formation and functioning of international alliances through the theoretical ideas of postrealism. His publications have also been translated into Arabic and French. [4]

Family and personal life

He married his wife, Diana Darnall Beer before leaving Berkeley in 1965. His family includes two sons (Omar and Jeremy), a daughter (Marie), two daughters in law (Caroline and Jessica), and four grandsons (Augustus Charles, Solomon Jackson, Arlo Fletcher, and Ethan West).

Research of war and peace

Beer's scientific publications has specialized on the nature, causes, and consequences of war and peace and their dialectical essence. His articles were published in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of International Peace and in the World Encyclopedia of Peace and has contributed to knowledge about war and peace in a number of different areas. [3]

Professor F. A. Beer found that periods of major peace have tended to become longer over time. And the wars are generally getting shorter accordingly, but more serious in terms of their destructive power. On his opinion, these are general tendencies. However, trends and statistics are less clear for a smaller and separate sample of countries, such as Professor F.A. Beer draws on the experience of war and peace in the United States. In this context, examples are given of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. [5] [6]

Alliances as Latent War Communities

Francis A. Beer in his publication "Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community" has shown how geopolitical actors who joined military-political alliances, such as NATO, for example, create local international communities that are essentially both integrative and disintegrative. According to the professor, members of NATO help maintain the internal peace of members, but are ready to wage war against external geopolitical actors. So the Alliance's institutions provide a framework through which members contribute a variety of resources and receive both collective and private benefits. [7] [8] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Francis Beer". 11 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Background, Experience, Etc. | Francis A Beer | University of Colorado Boulder". www.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. 1 2 3 Beer, Francis. "Personal Narrative and Research".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ "Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman". E-International Relations. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  5. ↑ Beer, Francis A. (1983). "Trends in American Major War and Peace". The Journal of Conflict Resolution. 27 (4): 661–686. doi:10.1177/0022002783027004006. ISSN   0022-0027. JSTOR   173891. S2CID   154171511.
  6. ↑ Beer, Francis A. (1974). How much war in history: definitions, estimates, extrapolations, and trends. Sage professional papers in international studies. Beverly Hills, Calif., Sage Publications. ISBN   978-0-8039-0476-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. 1 2 Fox, Annette Baker (1972). "Review of Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community.; NATO: The Transatlantic Bargain". Political Science Quarterly. 87 (2): 277–279. doi:10.2307/2147831. ISSN   0032-3195. JSTOR   2147831.
  8. ↑ "Alliances latent war communities in the contemporary world". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  9. ↑ Hart, Christopher (2006-07-01). "Metaphorical World Politics: Beer, Francis A., Christ'l De Landtsheer (Eds.), Michigan University Press, Michigan, 2004, x + 342 pp., ISBN 0 87013 726 3". Journal of Pragmatics. Special Issue: Processes and Products of Negation. 38 (7): 1135–1140. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2005.08.006. ISSN   0378-2166.
  10. ↑ "Meanings of War and Peace". Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved 2021-11-28.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ Beer, Francis A; Hariman, Robert (1996). Post-Realism: the rhetorical turn in international relations. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN   978-0-87013-461-6. OCLC   605393437.
  12. ↑ Preda, Michael A. (September 1983). "Peace against War: The Ecology of International Violence. By Francis A. Beer. (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1981. Pp. xxvi + 447. 11.95, paper.)". American Political Science Review. 77 (3): 800–801. doi:10.2307/1957333. ISSN   0003-0554. JSTOR   1957333. S2CID   147951031.
  13. ↑ Beer, Francis A (1972). The political economy of alliances: benefits, costs, and institutions in NATO. Beverly Hills [Calif.: Sage Publications. ISBN   978-0-8039-0186-5. OCLC   609363.
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