John Mueller

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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" and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete.

[edit] 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 Midwest Midterm Midtacular: Battlefield Ohio, discussing his book Overblown.

He was also a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, December 17, 2006, again discussing Overblown and took viewer questions for 54 minutes. (Video link is below.)

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

[edit] Bibliography

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
Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics, Longman 1997, ISBN 0-673-99327-2 [1]
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 [2]
Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films of Fred Astaire, Knopf 1985, ISBN 0-394-51654-0
"Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?" Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 [3]
"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