Beau Grosscup
Office: Butte 735
Telephone: 898-5692
email: bgrosscup@csuchico.edu
EDUCATION
1964-68: Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Major: Political Science, BA, 1968.
1968-73: University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
Graduate Study in Political Science
Major Field: International Relations
Subfields: Comparative Politics, Analytic
Philosophy, American, State and Local
Politics
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, February,
1973
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: Isolationism
and American Foreign Policy. A
study of the debate over isolationist
trends in US foreign policy, utilizing a Wittgensteinian
scheme of explication and a comparative
analysis of Chinese, Japanese, British and US
foreign policies.
MASTERS THESIS: Four European Neutrals
and Economic Integration. Degree awarded
in June, 1970.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1973-75; Boston University/Europe: Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in
International Relations. Curriculum responsibilities:
Multinational Corporations
and International Political Economy; Theories of
Imperialism; American
Diplomatic History.
1975-82: Ithaca College: Assistant Professor,
International Relations.
Curriculum responsibilities:
Multinational Corporations and
International Political
Economy; International Conflict; Political Economy of China;
International Terrorism;
Introduction to International Relations.
1980-81: University of Redlands (On leave
from Ithaca College), Visiting Associate
Professor. Curriculum
Responsibilities: US Foreign Policy; Introduction to International
Relations; International
Terrorism; Politics of Western Europe.
1983-86: UC-Irvine and UC-Santa Barbara:
Visiting, part-time faculty in
International Relations.
Curriculum Responsibilities: Multinational Corporations and
International Political
Economy; Political Economy of China; Political Economy of Central
and South America.
1988-present: CSU-Chico: Lecturer (1988-90),
Assistant Professor, International Relations
(1990-93), Associate Professor of International
Relations (1993-present)
Current Curriculum Responsibilities: Introduction
to International Relations;
Politics of Industrial
Societies; International Relations of the Middle East; International
Relations Methodology;
US Foreign Policy; Politics of Terrorism.
PUBLISHED WORKS
The Newest Explosion of Terrorism
, 3rd edition, (New Horizon Press), Forthcoming, Spring, 1998.
"The Western Imagery of Terrorism: Uncovering
the Political Agenda," in Wright and Kaplan, eds., The Image of Violence,
Selected Papers - 1995 Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Social Imagery.
"The American Doctrine on Low Intensity
Conflict in the New World Order," in Grammy and Bragg, eds., United
States-Third World Relations in the New World Order, Fall, 1996.
"Global Terrorism in the Post-Iran/Contra
Era: Debunking Myths and Facing Realities," International Studies,
29, 1, 1992.
The New Explosion of Terrorism,
(New Horizon Press), August, 1991.
The Explosion of Terrorism, (New
Horizon Press), May, 1987. "The Neoconservative State and the Politics
of Terrorism,"
New Political Science, Winter, 1981.
"The Racial Rationale: Constructing a
Theory of International Power," Journal of World Affairs,
Spring, 1978.
The following articles appeared in The
Progressive:
"The Kremlin Stays Its Stodgy Course,
"Jan., 1983 "Reagan and the Right To Know," Jan., 1982 "Carter's Dilemma
in Rhodesia," Sept., 1979 "Peking's New Imperialism," Dec., 1978 "China
After Mao, the Lost Vision," Dec., 1977 "Kissinger's Africa Policy, " Oct.,
1976
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