Paul Seabury (May 6, 1923 – October 17, 1990) was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.[1]

Paul Seabury
Born(1923-05-06)May 6, 1923
DiedOctober 17, 1990(1990-10-17) (aged 67)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSwarthmore College
Columbia University (PhD)
Occupations
  • Political scientist
  • foreign policy consultant
AwardsBancroft Prize (1964)

Life

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Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953.[2] Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Reagan Administration.[3] He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution.[4] He died in Pinole, California.[1]

Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for Abercrombie and Fitch.[5]

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Works

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  • "The Banality of Liberalism", The New York Review of Books, November 11, 1965
  • Michael Curtis, ed. (1986). "Reviewing the United Nations". The Middle East reader. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88738-101-0.
  • "Trendier than thou: the many temptations of the Episcopal Church", Harper's Magazine, 1978
  • The Wilhelmstrasse, University of California Press, 1954
  • Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy, Random House, 1963
  • The Balance of Power, Chandler Pub. Co., 1965
  • The Rise and Decline of the Cold War, Basic Books, 1967
  • Edward Friedland; Paul Seabury; Aaron B. Wildavsky (1975). The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of American Foreign Policy. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02707-1.
  • Paul Seabury; Walter A. McDougall (1984). The Grenada Papers. Institute for Contemporary Studies. ISBN 978-0-917616-67-9.
  • Angelo Codevilla; Paul Seabury (1989). War: Ends and Means. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09067-9. (2nd edition Brassey's, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57488-610-8)

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