John Allen Williams
John "Jay" Allen Williams (born June 20, 1945 ) is an American political scientist . He is a professor at Loyola University Chicago .
Life
Williams studied at Grinnell College ( BA 1967) in Grinnell, Iowa and the University of Pennsylvania ( MA 1968, Ph.D. 1976) in Philadelphia. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Henry Teune .
From 1971 to 1973 he was an instructor in political science and history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and from 1975 to 1977 lecturer in political science at the University of Philadelphia. In 1976 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1990 to 1996 he was Chair of the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago in Illinois; he is a professor of political science. In 1994 he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His main research interests are civil-military cooperation , international security policy, and American foreign and defense policy.
From 2003 to 2013 he was President of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Chicago; he was also a past president of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association . He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and writes for various journals.
Williams is a retired captain in the United States Navy Reserve . So he served u. a. on the USS Columbus (CG-12) , the United States Naval Academy , the Joint Chiefs of Staff , the Office of the Secretary of Defense , and Naval War College .
He is married and has two children.
Awards
- 2013: Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award , Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
Fonts (selection)
- with Sam C. Sarkesian (Ed.): The US Army in a New Security Era . Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder 1990, ISBN 1-55587-191-7 .
- with Sam C. Sarkesian, Fred B. Bryant : Soldiers, Society, and National Security . Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder 1995, ISBN 1-555-87273-5 .
- with Robert A. Vitas (Ed.): US National Security Policy and Strategy: Documents and Policy Proposals 1987–1994 (= Greenwood Reference Volumes on American Public Policy Formation ). Greenwood Press, Westport 1996, ISBN 1-58826-856-X .
- with Charles C. Moskos , David R. Segal (eds.): The Postmodern Military. Armed Forces after the Cold War . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-19-513329-3 .
- with Sam C. Sarkesian, Stephen J. Cimbala : US National Security. Policymakers, Processes, and Politics . 4th edition, Lynne Rienner Publishers, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-58826-856-3 .
Web links
- Search for "John Allen Williams" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- John Allen Williams at Loyola University Chicago
- John Allen Williams at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, John Allen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1945 |