Susan Strange

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Susan Strange (born June 9, 1923 in Dorset , † October 25, 1998 in Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire) was a British social scientist with research interests in the field of international political economy .

Life

Strange studied economics during the Second World War (1940-1944) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and then started a journalistic career with the Economist and the Observer . From 1949 to 1964 she was a lecturer in international relations at University College London , from 1965 to 1976 Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs , then headed by Andrew Shonfield . In 1978 she was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the LSE as the first woman to take this chair, which she held until her official retirement in 1988. She then taught and researched from 1989 to 1994 as Professor of International Political Economy at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1995 she was the first woman to be elected President of the International Studies Association (ISA). Most recently, she was Professorial Fellow for International Political Economy at the University of Warwick .

Her best-known books are Casino Capitalism , Mad Money , States and Markets, and The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy .

In her two marriages (1942 with Denis Merritt, 1955 with journalistic colleague Clifford Selly) she gave birth to six children, one of whom died early.

The British International Studies Association has awarded a Susan Strange Book Prize in memory of this extraordinary scientist .

Fonts

  • Casino Capitalism . Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 1986 (Reprint: Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997 ISBN 0-7190-5235-1 . Limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1998. ISBN 0-472-06693-5
  • States and Markets (1988) ISBN 0-8264-7389-X
  • Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares with John M. Stopford and John S. Henley (1991) ISBN 0-521-42386-4
  • The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (1996)

literature

  • Chris Brown: Susan Strange - a critical appreciation . In: Review of International Studies . Vol. 25 (1999), pp. 531-535 [1] .
  • Harry Bauer & Elisabetta Brighi (Eds.): International Relations at LSE: A History of 75 Years . Millennium Publishing Group, London 2003 - ISBN 978-0-9544397-0-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Strange Book Prize. In: BISA. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Strange, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1998
Place of death Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire