John Mueller
John E. Mueller | |
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Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (2007) | |
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John E. Mueller (born June 21, 1937) is an American
Career
Born in
He currently is the
Mueller was
On February 23, 2006, Mueller was a guest on the
Mueller's 2004 book, The Remnants of War, was awarded Georgetown University's Lepgold Prize as that year's best book on international relations.
Mueller's 2010 book Atomic Obsession presents the case that nuclear weapons have had little historical significance, that their destructive power is hysterically exaggerated, that nuclear proliferation has been slower and more limited than mainstream predictions, and that such weapons are practically useless and are a waste of money, time, and talent.
Mueller's book War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: Wiley, originally published in 1973) was awarded the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut in 2007, for being "a trailblazing book in public opinion research, in political science, and in the use of the Roper Center's data." This book featured the first definition of what is known as the
Although primarily known as a political scientist, Mueller is also an expert on filmed dance and a leading authority on the work of
In 2007, Mueller received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the board of directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.[5]
Selected publications
- Astaire Dancing – The Musical Films of Fred Astaire (Knopf, 1985) ISBN 0-394-51654-0
- Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (Basic Books, 1989) ISBN 0-465-06939-8 [2]
- Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War (University of Chicago Press, 1994) ISBN 0-226-54565-2
- Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics (Longman, 1997) ISBN 0-673-99327-2 [3]
- Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery (Princeton University Press, 2001) ISBN 0-691-09082-3
- The Remnants of War (Cornell University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-8014-4239-7
- Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006) ISBN 1-4165-4171-3
- "Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?", Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 [4]
- "War Has Almost Ceased to Exist", Political Science Quarterly, 124 (2009) pp. 297–321
- "Capitalism, Peace, and the Historical Movement of Ideas", International Interactions, 36/2 (2010) pp. 169–184
- Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0-19-538136-X
- Astaire Dancing – The Musical Films of Fred Astaire (25th Anniversary Edition—Digitally Enhanced, The Educational Publisher, 2010) ISBN 1-934849-31-6
- The Stupidity of War : American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency (Cambridge University Press, 2021) ISBN 9781108843836
References
- International Security, Summer 2000 [1]
- ^ Outline of Dr. Mueller's 1991 speech, "Is War Still Becoming Obsolete?" "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2006-05-23.
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- ^ Dr. Mueller's C-SPAN Washington Journal interview video
- ^ "Mitofsky Award & Dinner - Roper Center". Roper Center. Retrieved 2017-09-18.