Harlan Cleveland

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Harlan Cleveland (2006)

Harlan B. Cleveland (born January 19, 1918 in New York City , † May 30, 2008 in Sterling , Virginia ) was an American diplomat , futurologist , university principal and writer . The recognized expert on international relations and economic warfare was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965 and Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO from 1965 to 1969 . The Cleveland Mesa was named in his honor in 1967 , an 8 km long and 5 km wide plateau in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his services .

Life

Harlan Cleveland, son of Stanley Cleveland and his wife Marian Van Buren, began studying at Princeton University at Princeton University in 1934 after attending the Phillips Academy, founded in 1778 , which he graduated in 1938. He also received a Rhodes scholarship to study at the University of Oxford and worked as an expert on economic warfare for the US government in the 1940s . After the end of the Second World War , he became director of the program for aid to China in the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) founded in 1948 for the Marshall Plan in 1952 . Subsequently, he worked in the ECA for the development and administration of aid to Italy and eight countries in East Asia and played an essential role in the administration of the Marshall Plan. In the 1950s he was also the editor and managing editor of The Reporter magazine and, as successor to Paul H. Appleby, was Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University between 1956 and 1961 .

On February 20, 1961, Cleveland replaced Francis O. Wilcox as Head of the International Organizations Subdivision in the US State Department (Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs) and held this position until September 1, 1965, when Joseph J. Sisco was his successor has been. He himself then replaced Thomas K. Finletter on September 1, 1965 as Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO and held this post until his replacement by Robert Fred Ellsworth on June 11, 1969. He was also chairman of the Antarctic Policy Group in the State Department . The Cleveland Mesa was named in his honor in 1967 , an 8 km long and 5 km wide plateau in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica .

Cleveland then became President of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1969 and was then President of the University of Hawaiʻi System from 1972 until his replacement by Fujio Matsuda in 1974 . He was also the Dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota . From 1977 to 1978 he was Chairman of the Weather Modification Advisory Board and was involved in various institutions as Honorary Director of the Atlantic Council , as a Fellow of the International Leadership Forum and for the American Academy of Diplomacy , as a member of the Club of Rome , the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute . He was 1987-1993 columnist in Minneapolis appearing daily newspaper Star Tribune and in 1991 president of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his services .

From his marriage to Lois Cleveland, with whom he was married until his death, the two daughters Zoë and Melantha and the son Alan Cleveland were born.

Publications

Harlan Cleveland wrote numerous specialist books that dealt in particular with topics of future research . His works include:

  • The third try at world order: US policy for an interdependent world , 1940
  • The theory and practice of foreign aid , 1956
  • The art of overseasmanship , 1957
  • The overseas Americans , 1960
  • Two kinds of politics , 1963
  • Fraternity of the impatient , 1964
  • The obligations of power. American diplomacy in the search for peace , 1966
  • Nato. The transatlantic bargain , 1970
  • The future executive. A guide for tomorrow's managers , 1972
  • Seven everyday collisions in American higher education , 1974
  • Education is development, and vice versa. Reflections on a transpacific dialogue , 1975
  • China diary , 1976
  • World energy and US leadership. Report of the Committee on Energy Policy of the Atlantic Council , 1977
  • Renewing the Boundless Resource, a Lecture , 1980
  • After Afghanistan: The Long Haul , 1980
  • Triple Collision of Modernization , 1980
  • Energy Futures of Developing Countries. The Neglected Victims of the Energy Crisis , 1980
  • Information as a resource , 1983
  • Toward a Strategy for the Management of Peace. US Foreign Policy in the 1980’s , 1983
  • The knowledge executive. Leadership in an information society , 1985
  • The costs and benefits of openness. Sunshine laws and higher education , 1985
  • Prospects for peacemaking. A citizen's guide to safer nuclear strategy , 1987
  • Birth of a new world: an open moment for international leadership , 1993
  • The United Nations. Policy and financing alternatives. Innovative proposals by visionary leaders , co-authors Hazel Henderson, Inge Kaul, 1995
  • Nobody in Charge. Essays on the Future of Leadership , 2002
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for International Organization Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ US Permanent Representatives on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Cleveland, Harlan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cleveland, Harlan B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat, writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2008
Place of death Sterling , Virginia