Edward Buehrig
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Edward Henry Buehrig (October 4, 1910 – August 31, 1986) was an American political scientist who spent most of his career at the Indiana University Bloomington. He was known as a leading authority on the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson.
Early life and education
Buehrig was born in Minier, Illinois, and attended Illinois State University where he served as an editor of the Vidette student newspaper.{{cite web|title=Past Editors of the Vidette|url=http://www.videtteonline.com/alumni/alumni_news/past-editors-of-the-vidette/article_6d0ce964-0d1d-55c0-a483-0ebfe1788cc1.html|website=videtteonline.com|date=24 September 2012 |publisher=Illinois State University Vidette|accessdate=9 July 2016}} He subsequently transferred to the University of Chicago, from which he graduated. Buehrig went on to receive a M.A. in International relations, also from Chicago, with a thesis titled "Why the United States took the Philippines Islands", and later earned a Ph.D. from the same institution with his dissertation, "American Intervention in Europe, 1917".{{cite book|title=Why the United States took the Philippine Islands|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13247606|via=worldcat.org|publisher=OCLC|oclc = 13247606|accessdate=9 July 2016}}{{cite web|title=American intervention in Europe, 1917 ... by Edward H. Buehrig ...|url=https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/4131241|website=lib.uchicago.edu|publisher=University of Chicago|oclc=22606172 |accessdate=9 July 2016}}
Career
In 1934 Buehrig began teaching at Indiana University, where he would remain – except for three, short interludes – until his retirement in 1981. During World War II Buehrig worked in the United States Department of State and served as Secretary-General of the Italo-Yugoslav Boundary Commission;{{Cite web |url=http://www.milhist.net/docs/intellrev.html |title=Military History Network: "Settling the question of Trieste" |access-date=2016-07-26 |archive-date=2016-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309184546/http://www.milhist.net/docs/intellrev.html |url-status=dead }} after the war he again departed Indiana to spend a year at Princeton University researching the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. A third hiatus came in 1957 when he spent one year teaching at the American University of Beirut (AUB).{{cite web|title=Edward H. Buehrig papers, 1945–1984, bulk 1960–1968|url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Ar-VAA6304&doc.view=print|website=indiana.edu|publisher=Indiana University|accessdate=9 July 2016}} According to Elsa Marston, she met her husband Iliya Harik at an AUB lecture given by Buehrig.{{cite journal|last1=Marston Harik|first1=Elsa|title=My Fifty Years with Iliya|journal=Journal of New Media Studies|date=Summer 2013|issue=2}}
Buehrig served as acting president of the Midwest Political Science Association during 1955.{{cite web|title=Past MPSA Officers|url=http://www.mpsanet.org/AboutMPSA/MPSAGovernance/CurrentOfficers/PastOfficers/tabid/96/Default.aspx|website=mpsanet.org|publisher=Midwest Political Science Association|accessdate=9 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308085225/http://www.mpsanet.org/AboutMPSA/MPSAGovernance/CurrentOfficers/PastOfficers/tabid/96/Default.aspx|archive-date=8 March 2014|url-status=dead}} On being appointed chair of the political science department at Indiana in 1980, Elinor Ostrom recalled that she "realized that Professor Buehrig would be retiring within a year [and] I shuddered to think of all the memory and insight about the Department that might be lost to future generations". At Ostrom's request, Buehrig wrote "Political Science at Indiana: An Historical Essay", chronicling the history of the department up to that point.{{cite web|title=Political Science at Indiana: An Historical Essay|url=http://polisci.indiana.edu/about/buehrig.shtml|website=indiana.edu|publisher=Indiana University Bloomington|accessdate=9 July 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304160631/http://polisci.indiana.edu/about/buehrig.shtml|url-status=dead}}
In May 1986, three months before his death, Illinois State University awarded Buehrig an honorary degree.{{cite news|title=Edward Buehrig|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/73805783/|accessdate=9 July 2016|work=The Pantagraph|publisher=newspapers.com|date=7 September 1986}}
Selected publications
- Buehrig, E (1950). "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2009009 Wilson's Neutrality Re-Examined]". World Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1–19
- Buehrig, E (1950). "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703992 The United States, the United Nations and Bi-Polar Politics]". International Organization, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 573–584
- Buehrig, E (1955) Woodrow Wilson and the Balance of Power Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Buehrig, E (1957) Wilson's Foreign Policy in Perspective Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Buehrig, E (1965). "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2009285 The International Pattern of Authority]". World Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 369–385
- Buehrig, E (1966) Essays in Political Science Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Buehrig, E (1971) The UN and the Palestinian Refugees: A Study in Nonterritorial Administration Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Buehrig, E (1986) The Perversity of Politics Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm.
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