| LC control no. | n 50022808 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | North, Robert C., 1914-2002 |
| Variant(s) | North, Robert Carver, 1914-2002 North, Bob, 1914-2002 |
| Birth date | 1914-11-17 |
| Death date | 2002-07-15 |
| Place of birth | Walton, N.Y. |
| Place of death | Menlo Park, Calif. |
| Field of activity | International politics Political science |
| Affiliation | Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Stanford University United States. Army Air Forces |
| Profession or occupation | Professor |
| Found in | Bob North starts exploring, 1927: title page (Robert Carver North) Nations in conflict, 1975: title page (Robert C. North) The world of superpowers, c1985: title page (Robert C. North) War, peace, survival, 1990: (Robert C. North) Los Angeles Times, via WWW, September 28, 2012 ( August 4, 2002 edition; Robert Carver North; born November 17, 1914, in Walton, NY; died of complications from a stroke July 15, 2002, in Menlo Park, CA; educator and author; a professor at Stanford University, North was notable for his research in international conflicts and quantitative analysis; he originally studied languages and literature, earning his bachelor's degree from Union College in 1936; after serving in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, he returned to college to earn his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1957; it was while he was working as a research associate at the Hoover Institution in the early 1950s that North first gained notoriety for publishing a study blaming the rise of communism in China to the failure of not only China's nationalists but also failed U.S. foreign policy; brave enough to criticize McCarthyism during the 1950s, North spent his entire academic career at Stanford, first as a research associate from 1950 to 1957, and then as an associate professor and professor of political science; he retired in 1985 as a professor emeritus; North was also the director of Studies in International Conflict and Integration, and through his forward-thinking leadership he insisted on the use of computers as a tool in studying international relations at the university; North was the author or coauthor of sixteen books on international politics, including Moscow and Chinese Communists (1953), Chinese Communism: A History of Its Origins and Ideas (1966), The World That Could Be (1976), and War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis (1990)) Marquis Who's Who, via WWW, September 28, 2012 (Robert Carver North; political science educator; born Walton, New York, November 17, 1914; died July 15, 2002; AB, Union College, 1936; MA, Stanford University, 1948; Ph. D., Stanford University, 1957; teacher of English, History, Milford (Connecticut) School, 1939-1942; served as captain in US Army Air Force, 1942-1946; Research assistant, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, 1948-1950; Research associate, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, 1950-1957; Associate professor of political science, Stanford (California) University, 1957-1962; Professor, Stanford (California) University, 1962-1985; Professor emeritus, Stanford (California) University, 1985-) |
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