Marshall D. Shulman

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Marshall Darrow Shulman (born April 8, 1916 in Jersey City , New Jersey , † June 21, 2007 in Manhattan ) was an American political scientist and a leading expert and political advisor on relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

life and work

Shulman graduated from the University of Michigan . After graduating in 1937, he first worked for the Detroit News , where he reported, among other things, on the bloody collective bargaining struggles of the automobile workers, which eventually led to the formation of the United Automobile Workers union . In 1939 he moved to Harvard University , where he studied English literature .

During World War II he served in the US Air Force as a glider pilot and in psychological warfare . He was awarded the Bronze Star . At the end of the war, he was recovering from pneumonia in the Philippines ; During this period he came to the conclusion that the main issue in the post-war period would be relations between the Soviet Union and the United States.

He then studied at the newly founded "Russian Institute" at Columbia University in New York City and received his master's degree in 1948 , followed by his doctorate there in 1959. Before completing his doctorate, Shulman was appointed deputy director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University . He then taught from 1961 to 1967 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University .

In 1949 he worked for the US State Department as an information and liaison officer at the United Nations . From 1950 to 1953 he was assistant and speechwriter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson and from 1977 to 1980 advisor to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on Soviet policy.

In 1982 Shulman was able to convince former ambassador Averell Harriman and his wife Pamela to donate US $ 11.5 million to the Russian Institute at New York's Columbia University; since then it has been called «W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union ". During this time he was heavily involved in diplomacy behind the scenes and mediated between the Soviet Union and the United States, especially during the arms race. During this time he visited the Soviet Union as a professor or diplomat over 40 times.

In 1966 he published the acclaimed book Beyond the Cold War , in which he is a detente predicted.

He was a member of the Bergedorf Round Table of the Körber Foundation .

Shulman left behind his second wife Colette, née. Schwarzenbach, and two children from his first marriage, Lisa Rubenstein in Winchester, Mass., And Michael Shulman in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Works (selection)

  • 1963: Stalin's Foreign Policy Reappraised.
  • 1966: Beyond the Cold War.
  • 1973: Toward a Western philosophy of coexistence. In: Foreign Affairs , Vol. 52, No. 1 (1973), p. 35-58
  • 1986: East-West tensions in the Third World. Norton, New York

Honors

In 1963 Shulman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The "Marshall D. Shulman Professorship of Political Science" was named after him at Columbia University. Since 1987 the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) has awarded the Marshall Shulman Prize.

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personal data
SURNAME Shulman, Marshall D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shulman, Marshall Darrow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2007
Place of death Manhattan , New York City , New York