Nathan Leites

Nathan Constantin Leites (born July 10, 1912 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; died June 5, 1987 in Avignon ) was an American social researcher and political scientist of Russian origin.

Life

Leites' family fled communist Russia in the early 1920s. In 1929 he began studying in Heidelberg and fled to Switzerland in 1933, where he attended the 1935 University of Friborg (Switzerland) PhD was.

After emigrating to the USA, he worked for the Rand Corporation from 1949 and was considered an important expert and analyst of the government system of the Soviet Union . Leites also taught at the University of Chicago . He is considered the spiritual father of the operational code approach to analyzing international relationships.

literature

Claus-Dieter Krohn: Leites, Nathan Constantin. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , p. 368f.

Fonts (selection)

The Language of Politics , 1949.
The Operational Code of the Politburo , 1951.
Some useful passages from Lenin and Stalin , 1951.
A Study of Bolshevism , 1953.
On the Game of Politics in France , 1959.
The Kremlin's Horizon , 1963.
The "Europe" of the French , 1965.
The New Economic Togetherness: American And Soviet Reactions , 1973.
What Soviet Commanders Fear From Their Own Forces , 1978.

Web links

Leites obituary in the New York Times

Individual evidence

↑ Arno Kohl: Domino Theory and American policy in Vietnam from 1954 to 1961. A case study on the role of models in international politics . Freiburg 2001, p. 6 ( freidok.uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2011] Inaugural dissertation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ).

personal data
SURNAME	Leites, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leites, Nathan Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American social researcher and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	5th June 1987
Place of death	Avignon

[1] Arno Kohl: Domino Theory and American policy in Vietnam from 1954 to 1961. A case study on the role of models in international politics . Freiburg 2001, p. 6 ( freidok.uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2011] Inaugural dissertation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ).