Karl Deutsch

For the German car company, see Karl Deutsch (Karosseriebau).

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (21 July 1912 – 1 November 1992) was a Czech social and political scientist. He was a professor at MIT, Yale University and Harvard University, as well as Director of WZB Berlin Social Science Center.[1]

Deutsch studied war and peace, nationalism, co-operation, and communication,[2] as well as pioneered quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the field of political and social sciences,[3][4][5] contributing to the development of sociological liberalism school in international relations.[6]

  1. ^ Deutsch, Karl W. (1912-1992). Harvard Square Library. Retrieved: 25 November 2019. <https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/karl-w-deutsch/>
  2. ^ Goldhamer, Herbert (1954). "Fashion and Social Science". World Politics. 6 (3): 394–404. doi:10.2307/2009071. ISSN 1086-3338. JSTOR 2009071. S2CID 147255459.
  3. ^ Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart, eds. American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2nd ed. 2002) pp 83–84, online.
  4. ^ Katzenstein, Peter J (2014). "Karl Deutsch: Teacher and scholar". International Relations. 28 (3): 296–303. doi:10.1177/0047117814545948. ISSN 0047-1178. S2CID 143134328.
  5. ^ Karl Wolfgang Deutsch. July 21, 1912 – November 1, 1992 - Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. 2001. doi:10.17226/10269. ISBN 978-0-309-08281-5.
  6. ^ Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press. 2019. p. 111. ISBN 9780198803577.