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John Mueller

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name = John E. Mueller

John E. Mueller (born 1937, Saint Paul, Minnesota) is a political scientist in the field of international relations as well as a scholar of the history of dance. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of ethnic war" ["The Banality of 'Ethnic War'", "International Security", Summer 2000 [http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/is2000.pdf] ] and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete. [ Outline of Dr. Mueller's 1991 speech, "Is War Still Becoming Obsolete?" [http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/apsa1991.pdf] ]

Career

He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1960 and his Master's (M.A. Thesis: The Politics of Fluoridation in Seven California Cities) and Ph.D. (Ph.D. Dissertation: Reason and Caprice: Ballot Patterns in California ) from UCLA in 1963 and 1965, respectively.

He currently is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and a professor of both political science and dance at The Ohio State University.

Mueller was Jon Stewart's guest on the October 31st, 2006 episode of "The Daily Show" featuring the , discussing his book "Overblown". He also appeared on Fox News show "Hannity & Colmes" and on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal", December 17, 2006, again discussing "Overblown" and took viewer questions for 54 minutes. [Dr. Mueller's C-SPAN Washington Journal [http://www.cspan.org/Search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=%22john+mueller%22 interview video] ]

On February 23, 2007 Mueller was a guest on the 20/20 special titled Scared Stiff: Worried in America with John Stossel.

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 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."

Although primarily known as a political scientist, Mueller is also an expert on filmed dance and a leading authority on the work of Fred Astaire in particular, having published "Astaire Dancing - The Musical films" in 1985, a now-standard reference work that was honored by the Dance Perspectives Foundation as "the most distinguished book-length manuscript in the history of dance," and awarded the de la Terre Buono prize. He has also authored the reference articles on Astaire for American National Biography and the International Encyclopedia of Dance. In addition, he has published extensively in "Dance Chronicle", "Quarterly Review of Film Studies", "Cinema Journal" and "Dance Magazine".

References

Bibliography

*"Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them", Free Press, November 14, 2006, ISBN 1-4165-4171-3
*"Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?" "Foreign Affairs", September/October 2006 [http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901facomment85501/john-mueller/is-there-still-a-terrorist-threat.html]
*"The Remnants of War", Cornell University Press 2004, ISBN 0-8014-4239-7
*"Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery", Princeton University Press 2001, ISBN 0-691-09082-3
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*"Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics", Longman 1997, ISBN 0-673-99327-2 [http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/qcfull.pdf]
*"Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War", University of Chicago Press 1994, ISBN 0-226-54565-2
*"Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War", Basic Books 1989, ISBN 0-465-06939-8 [http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/doom.pdf]
*"Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films of Fred Astaire", Knopf 1985, ISBN 0-394-51654-0

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