Robert J. Beck
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Robert J. Beck (1961- ) is an educator and scholar of international law and international relations. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and educated at Marquette University High School, Beck received a Honors B.A. (Political Science, History, Latin) from Marquette University in 1983. He received MA (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees in International Politics from Georgetown University's Department of Government.
Dr. Beck spent nine years in full-time teaching and research at the University of Virginia (Government & Foreign Affairs, 1989-90, 91-98) and the University of Minnesota (Political Science, 1990-91). He served as Director of Tufts University's Center for Teaching Excellence from 1998-2000, thereafter moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he now serves the Center for International Education and teaches in the Global Studies degree program.
An expert on technology-enhanced pedagogy, Beck maintains a nationally recognized web site on Learning Objects. Beck's "Foreign Affairs Online" was in 2006 called "perhaps the best comprehensive Web site on international affairs."
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- International Law and the Rise of Nations (co-editor, with Thomas Ambrosio, and contributor, 2001)
- International Rules: Approaches from International Law and International Relations (co-editor and contributor, 1996)
- International Law and the Use of Force (co-author, second edition forthcoming, 1993 first edition)
- The Grenada Invasion: Politics, Law, and Foreign Policy Decisionmaking (author, 1993)
