Richard Oliver Collin

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Richard Oliver Collin (born April 22, 1940 in Buffalo , New York State , USA) is an American writer and professor of political science.

Life

Richard Oliver Collin comes from an Anglo-Irish family and grew up in Buffalo, New York State. Because of his outstanding achievements at Canisius College there , he received Danforth and Woodrow Wilson scholarships for studying at the renowned Harvard University . Before he could graduate from there, he was called up for military service in the US Army. After an intensive training in intelligence methods he spent two years in the Ministry of Defense of the United States in the staff of the Deputy Director of Military Intelligence. There he worked as an analyst and liaison officer for affairs in the Middle East and North Africa . He was gradually promoted to the military rank of captain . Starting in 1967, he moved to the US Embassy in Rome as a civil servant at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for a total of five years . There he was head of DIA's Intelligence Collection Branch for Italy. During his years in Rome, he also obtained his master's degree in political science from the Kansas University Center for Mediterranean Studies in Rome. For another five years he worked for the US secret service at different locations in the Middle and Far East and Africa.

After retiring from the military career of his own, he took his academic career in 1977 again and was at Oriel College of Oxford University with a thesis on contemporary European politics and political violence doctorate. After two decades abroad, he returned to the USA to take up a professorship in political science at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina from 1984 . From then on he remained deeply rooted in his profession, interrupted only by business trips and visiting professorships at Queen's University in Belfast in 1992 and at University College Northampton in 1996. His current research area is the relationship between languages ​​and political conflicts. Between 1996 and 2001 he was named Kearns-Palmetto Professor of the Humanities .

Richard Oliver Collin is married with two adult sons and lives in the university town of Conway .

Literary and scientific profile

As a political scientist, Collins has often processed the extensive historical and contemporary background knowledge about this country gained in the context of his secret service activities in Italy in his own book publications and made it generally accessible. In his first publication, The De Lorenzo Gambit: the Italian coup manqué of 1964 from 1976, he describes a failed coup. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Italian politics, internal security from Giolitti to Mussolini. His book La Donna che Sparò a Mussolini , published in Italian by the Rusconi publishing house , was a bestseller in Italy .

In Contessa Collins gives a fictional presentation of Italian history 1911–1922. Ingredients are the role of the nobility, a love affair and the effects of the strong social inequality at the time. In Imbroglio (German: Roman Conditions ) he processes the events about a near- coup of the Italian right-wing extremists, which he has already published as a non-fiction book, as novel material. He succeeds in depicting credible characters and behaviors in funny, dramatic situations and with as much drive as a psychological foundation. The successful novel had several editions and led to the licensing of further fiction book publications by Knaur-Verlag in Germany. Remarkably, nothing is known of a film adaptation.

Works

  • The man with no name . Thriller. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996.
  • Contessa . Historical novel. Knaur, Munich 1995 637 S, ISBN 3-426-60307-1 .
  • Winter of Fire: the Abduction of General Dozier and the Downfall of the Red Brigades . Dutton Penguin, New York 1990
  • La Donna che Sparò a Mussolini . Rusconi, Rome 1988. ( The Woman Who Shot Mussolini )
  • The Italian Police and Internal Security from Giolitti to Mussolini . Univ., Dissertation . Oxford 1983.
  • Roman states . Novel. Piper, Munich 1987. (original: Imbroglio , London 1981)
  • The De Lorenzo Gambit: the Italian coup manqué of 1964 . Sage Publ., Beverly Hills 1976.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Collin, Richard Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and political science professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York State , USA