Background
Beer, Francis Anthony was born on February 5, 1939 in New York City. Son of William Joseph and Anne (Benedikt) Beer.
( When the stakes of public words and actions are global ...)
When the stakes of public words and actions are global and permanent, and especially when they involve war and peace, can we afford not to seek their meaning? For three decades, Francis Beer has pioneered the effort to discover, describe, and connect pieces of the complex puzzle of war, peace, their interrelationship, and their causes. In this volume, Beer (joined by colleagues as co-authors of some chapters) examines the cognitive, behavioral, and linguistic dimensions of war and peace. Language, he shows, is important because it mediates between thought and action. It expresses beliefs about war and peace and affects the perceptions of potential adversaries about one's own intentions. Using multiple perspectives and methods, he explores the uses of communication in international relations and the development of "meaning" for war and peace. In this unique and innovative post-realist analysis, Beer examines how language transmits and creates meaning through interaction with specific audiences. His case studies include the Somalian intervention, Sarajevo and the Balkan conflict, and the Gulf War. Moving beyond the discrete words of war, the book takes a broader view of how political participants interact in war and peace through continuous streams of communication that reflect and construct worlds of meaning. This stimulating and challenging volume brings together insights and evidence from political science, cognitive psychology, linguistics, history, and rhetorical studies and applies them in a focused way to the problem of war and peace.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585441244/?tag=2022091-20
political science professor emeritus
Beer, Francis Anthony was born on February 5, 1939 in New York City. Son of William Joseph and Anne (Benedikt) Beer.
Francis A. Beer graduated from the Fay School and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He received his A. B. (1960) from Harvard in Government and M. A. (1963) and Doctor of Philosophy (1967) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
His research focuses on war and peace. Honors and awards include listings in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America, as well as other directories. At the University of Colorado, he represented the faculty as Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly.
After leaving Harvard, he spent two years in the Philippines as a communications officer with the United States. Navy, leaving with the rank of Lieutenant.
He returned to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed graduate work in Political Science. He specialized in international relations and received a Fulbright award to France to study the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and took a pre-doctoral year at the Mershon Center of the Ohio State University.
He subsequently taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Colorado in Boulder. At the University of Colorado, he served as Director of the Conflict and Peace Studies Program and as Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly.
He was a visiting professor at Cambridge University in England and the University of Bordeaux in France.
() () Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations.
( When the stakes of public words and actions are global ...)
(Book by Beer, Francis A.)
Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1960-1962. Member International Political Science Association, International Society Political Psychology, American Political Science Association, International Studies. Association.
Married Diana Darnall, June 12, 1965. Children: Omar, Marie, Jeremy.