Charles A. McClelland

Charles Armor[1][2] McClelland (April 25, 1917 March 31, 2006) was an American political scientist, systems analyst and Professor International Relations at the San Francisco State University, who was among the first to introduce General Systems Theory in the field of International Relations.[3]

Biography

Born and raised in Oakley, Idaho, McClelland received his BA from San Jose State College, and his MA and PhD in history from the University of California.[4]

In 1940s McClelland joined the faculty of the San Francisco State College, where he became professor of history and international relations at the department of International Relations, and chairman of the division of social science. He was also visiting professor at the University of Michigan, department of Political Science, and joined the faculty as Professor, department of International Relations at the University of Southern California. One of his students at San Francisco State College was James N. Rosenau.

He was president of Society for General Systems Research from 1959 to 1961. In 1967 he received an USC Associates Awards for Letters, Arts and Sciences. In the 1970s McClelland received research grants from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the Pentagon.[5] In 1978-79 he was a Scholar in Residence at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California.

Work

With Walter F. Buckley, Morton A. Kaplan, Karl W. Deutsch, Robert A. Dahl and David Easton McClelland was among the first to introduce General Systems Theory in the social sciences.[6] In his 1966 book "Theory and the International System" McClelland introduced the idea to apply general systems ideas in the study of international relations from different perspectives, which led to the definition of different approaches.[7]

In 1969 McClelland postulated the "wisdom approach", an approach that "invites scholars to prudently examine history and appreciate the precarious nature of human conduct, rather than being overwhelmed by masses of data, which more often than not lead to blind spots of partisanship".[8]

Publications

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References

  1. McClelland, Charles Armor (1966). Theory and the International System. London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 9780023794100.
  2. The Social Security Death Index spells his middle name Armour
  3. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff (1972), Politics and the International System page 111.
  4. Edward E. Azar, Richard A. Brody, Charles A. McClelland (1972), International Events Interaction Analysis: Some Research Considerations, p. 80.
  5. Brandt, Daniel (2001). "University of Southern California Trustees (1979)". NameBase. Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  6. Systemwissenschaft, Muellerscience.com, retrieved 22 April 2008.
  7. International relations, Britannica online, retrieved 22 April 2008.
  8. Farhang Rajāyī (2000) Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization. p.40

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