Charles A. McClelland is an American political systems analyst

Political system

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 and International Relations Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

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, who was among the first to introduce General Systems Theory in the field of International Relations

International relations

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Biography

McClelland was born in Oakley, Idaho

Oakley, Idaho

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, in 1917. He received his undergraduate education at San Jose State College, and his MA and doctoral degrees in history

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 from the University of California

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He started working in the 1940s at the department of International Relations at the San Francisco State College, where he became professor of history and international relations, as well as a visiting professor in the department of Political Science, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, and at the University of Southern California

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. One of his students was James N. Rosenau

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McClelland was one of the first scholars of the Center for the Study of the American Experience at USC. McClelland has received research grants from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the Pentagon.

He was president of Society for General Systems Research

Society for General Systems Research

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from 1959 to 1961. In 1967 he received a USC Associates Awards for Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Publications

• 1960, The United Nations: the Continuing Debate. Chandler publishing. 1960
• 1960, Nuclear weapons, missiles, and future war: problem for the sixties.
• 1962, College teaching of international relations; problems of organization and collaboration. A report on applied and experimental studies of undergraduate college education in international relations.
• 1967, Theory of the International System. New York : The Macmillan Company.
• 1970, An Interaction Survey of the Middle East, with Anne Ancoli.
• 1972, International Events Interaction Analysis: Some Research Considerations. With, Edward E. Azar and Richard A. Brody (eds.) Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Articles

• 1958, "Systems and History in International Relations". In: General Systems Yearbook 3 (1958), p. 237.
• 1959, "A Classification of International Relations Theory" in: American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 2, No. 4, 32-34 (1959)
• 1960, "The function of theory in international relations" in: Journal of Conflict Resolution 4 (1960), pp. 303–336.
• 1961, "The Acute International Crisis," in: World Politics, Vol. 14 (October 1961), p. 199.
• 1962, "General Systems and the Social Sciences," in: A Review of General Semantics, 18 (1962), 456.
• 1972, "The Beginning, Duration, and Abatement of International Crises: Comparisons in Two Conflict Arenas", in C. F. Hermann (ed.), International Crises: Insights from Behavioral Research (New York: Free Press, 1972).

Publications about McClelland:

• Charles P. Schleicher (1967), "Reviewed work(s): Theory of the International System by Charles A. McClelland", in: The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1967), pp. 232–233

External links

• Charles A. McClelland at Scientificcommons.org
• Charles McClelland at the ISSS website.