Robert E. Harkavy

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Robert Edward Harkavy (* 1936) is an American political scientist . He is professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and visiting professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . Together with the NDR journalist Patrik Baab, he published the book In the Spider's Web of the Secret Services in 2017 . Why were Uwe Barschel, Olof Palme and William Colby murdered?

Harkavy completed a bachelor's degree with a major in chemistry at Cornell University from 1954 to 1958 , then switched to political science and took his master's degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964 . In 1973 he received his Ph.D. in the political science sub-discipline International Relations at Yale University. PhD . 1977/78 he had a research position at the Center for International Studies at Cornell University. Since 1978 he has been a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He worked as visiting professor at the Japanese Nihon University and currently (as of 2020) at the University of Kiel.

Between and alongside his academic activities, Harkavy worked for the American government: from 1966 to 1968 for the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, DC , from 1975 to 1977 also in Washington for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and in 1982/83 for the United States Army War College .

In the German-language book In the Spider Web of the Secret Services. Why were Uwe Barschel, Olof Palme and William Colby murdered? Baab and Harkavy establish a connection between the death of Uwe Barschel and the murder of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the unexplained death of the former CIA chief William Colby . These "political murders" are "part of a single story", namely the Iran-Contra affair and the result of a worldwide "purge, with which unwanted witnesses and renegade helpers of a political conspiracy should be put out of the way".

Fonts (selection)

  • With Patrick Baab: In the spider web of the secret services. Why were Uwe Barschel, Olof Palme and William Colby murdered? Revised and expanded new edition, Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-86489-250-9 (first edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-176-2 ).
  • With Stephanie G Neuman: Warfare and the third world . Palgrave, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-31224-009-7 .
  • Bases abroad. The global foreign military presence . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1989, ISBN 978-0-19829-131-2 .
  • Great power competition for overseas bases. The geopolitics of access diplomacy . Pergamon Press, New York 1982, ISBN 978-0-08025-089-2 .
  • The arms trade and international systems . Ballinger Pub. Co., Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1975, ISBN 978-0-88410-021-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information is based on: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Prof. Dr. Robert Harkavy .
  2. ↑ The chapters by Robert E. Harkavy were translated from English by Sarah Eichhoff; see Patrick Baab and Robert E. Harkavy: In the spider web of the secret services. Why were Uwe Barschel, Olof Palme and William Colby murdered? Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-176-2 , p. 4.
  3. ^ Andreas Förster, Crime Instead of Enlightenment . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Harkavy, Robert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harkavy, Robert Edward; Harkavy, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1936