Roy Pateman

Background

Roy Pateman was born on August 15, 1935, in Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the son of Harry and Elsie (Pearson) Pateman.

Education

Roy Pateman began his studies at the University of Nottingham where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958. He continued his graduate studies at the University of London graduating in 1967 and at the University of Reading obtaining a Master of Philosophy degree in 1971.

Career

Roy Pateman began his teaching career in 1961, the year he became an economics teacher at schools in Oxfordshire. In 1969 he joined the National Farmers' Union in London where he worked as a lobbyist and economist till 1972. The next seventeen years he spent at the University of Sydney as a tutor in politics. In 1990 he went to the University of California, Los Angeles, and held the position of a professor of politics till 2002. He also taught at Princeton University, the Hoover Institution, the University of Asmara, and others. He also spent twenty-five years working voluntarily for the Eritrean Relief Association (ERA) in Australia, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, Eritrea, and Sudan. He also has considerable experience working with the media, television, and radio broadcasting in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Eritrea.

Pateman is also known as the author of books and scholarly articles on politics. His first book, Eritrea: Even the Stones Are Burning (1990), came about because of his active involvement in liberation politics and as chair of a major Australian organization, the Eritrean Relief Association, in the 1980s. He visited Eritrea several times during its thirty-year struggle for independence, was enormously impressed by the people and country, and looked around for an adequate account of why the Eritreans had fought so long and how they seemed to be winning in spite of considerable odds against them. He didn't find one, so he set about writing articles that were eventually edited rigorously and put into a book. Here he is reminded of one of his first loves as a writer.

Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy (2002) grew from his interest in opera - encouraged from the earliest age by musical parents - and in anarchism - through reading and activism in the 1960s and 1970s. He was always fascinated by quotations and aphorisms and collected apt political examples for many years. Eventually, he put some order into them and found many very appropriate to the life of his favorite composer, and a man he considers the most creative to have lived. The main reason he wrote it was that he hadn't found a satisfactory account of Wagner's complex politics and the legacy he bequeathed to many brilliant men and women.

The book, Blood, Land, and Sex: Legal and Political Pluralism in Eritrea, was written with Lyda Favali in 2003. Another book published in 2003 was Residual Uncertainty: Trying to Avoid Intelligence and Policy Mistakes in the Modern World. The author's interest in intelligence and security matters dates back to his army days, when he spent two very formative years in Kenya, dabbling in counterintelligence. During the past twenty-five years, most of his income came from teaching classes in international relations and comparative politics at universities. One of his most successful courses was an investigation of the importance of intelligence in the formulation and execution of foreign policy (often with unfortunate consequences). The book ranges wider than the usual discussion of the Central Intelligence Agency covert action to deal with the work of the country's allies and the opposition since the end of World War II. One modest aim was to assist masters in avoiding more disasters.

His other books include the biography The Man Nobody Knows: The Life and Legacy of B. Traven and Left, Right and Wrong: In Religion, Politics, Sport, Folk Lore, and much more.

Achievements

• Roy Pateman is a known political scientist and outstanding educator. He is considered to be one of the most significant scholars particularly known as a former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books and articles on politics received a warm reception from readers as well as reviewers.

Works

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  • Blood, Land, and Sex: Legal and Political Pluralism in Eritrea

    (In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equall...)

    2003
  • Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy

    (Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist, revolutio...)

    2002
  • Eritrea: Even the Stones are Burning

    (In Eritrea: Even the Stones are Burning, Roy Pateman trac...)

    1990
  • Residual Uncertainty: Trying to Avoid Intelligence and Policy Mistakes in the Modern World

    (Intelligence networks will forever be with people, and su...)

    2003
  • The Man Nobody Knows: The Life and Legacy of B. Traven

    (In this book, Roy Pateman provides the most reader-friend...)

    2005
  • Left, Right and Wrong: In Religion, Politics, Sport, Folk Lore, and much more

    (In all human societies, the right is dominant. For about ...)

    2006

Views

Quotations: "I seem always to have been scribbling if I have not been reading."

Membership

Roy Pateman is a member of the Wagner Society of New York.

• president

  Workers' Educational Association , Australia

  1980 - 1982

• chair

  Eritrean Relief Association , Eritrea

  1980 - 1989

• chair

  Eritrean Studies Association

  1998 - 2000

Personality

Pateman's most loved wine is Australian Henschke Hill of Grace of 1961 and the most loved restaurant is the Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire.

Interests

• opera, fitness, wine, and books

Connections

Roy Pateman married Carole Bennett on February 27, 1960.

Father:

Harry Pateman

Mother:

Elsie Pearson Pateman

Wife:

Carole Bennett