Francis Beer

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Francis A. Beer graduated from the Fay School and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He received his A.B. (1960) from Harvard in government and M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1967) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web|title=Background, Experience, Etc. {{!}} Francis A Beer {{!}} University of Colorado Boulder|url=https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/beer/background-experience-etc|access-date=2021-11-28|website=www.colorado.edu}}

After leaving Harvard, he spent two years in the Philippines as a communications officer with the U.S. Navy, leaving with the rank of Lieutenant. He returned to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed graduate work in political science. He specialized in international relations and received a Fulbright award to France to study the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and took a pre-doctoral year at the Mershon Center of the Ohio State University. He received another Fulbright award to the Netherlands to study the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He subsequently taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Colorado in Boulder. At the University of Colorado, he served as Director of the Conflict and Peace Studies Program and as Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. He was a visiting professor at Cambridge University in England and the University of Bordeaux in France.{{Cite journal|last=Beer|first=Francis|title=Personal Narrative and Research|url=https://www.academia.edu/7300281}}

Francis A. Beer is the author of such scientific publications: "Meanings of War and Peace", "Peace Against War: The Ecology of International Violence", "Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community". In his publications he considers the formation and functioning of international alliances through the theoretical ideas of postrealism. His publications have also been translated into Arabic and French.{{Cite web|title=Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman|url=https://www.e-ir.info/author/francis-a-beer-and-robert-hariman/|access-date=2021-11-27|website=E-International Relations|language=en-US}}

He married his wife, Diana Darnall Beer before leaving Berkeley in 1965. His family includes two sons (Omar and Jeremy), a daughter (Marie), two daughters in law (Caroline and Jessica), and four grandsons (Augustus Charles, Solomon Jackson, Arlo Fletcher, and Ethan West).

Beer's scientific publications has specialized on the nature, causes, and consequences of war and peace and their dialectical essence. His articles were published in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of International Peace and in the World Encyclopedia of Peace and has contributed to knowledge about war and peace in a number of different areas.

Professor F. A. Beer found that periods of major peace have tended to become longer over time. And the wars are generally getting shorter accordingly, but more serious in terms of their destructive power. On his opinion, these are general tendencies. However, trends and statistics are less clear for a smaller and separate sample of countries, such as Professor F.A. Beer draws on the experience of war and peace in the United States. In this context, examples are given of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.{{Cite journal|last=Beer|first=Francis A.|date=1983|title=Trends in American Major War and Peace|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/173891|journal=The Journal of Conflict Resolution|volume=27|issue=4|pages=661–686|doi=10.1177/0022002783027004006|jstor=173891|s2cid=154171511|issn=0022-0027}}{{Cite book|last=Beer|first=Francis A.|url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/851206|title=How much war in history: definitions, estimates, extrapolations, and trends|date=1974|isbn=978-0-8039-0476-7|series=Sage professional papers in international studies|location=Beverly Hills, Calif., Sage Publications}}

Francis A. Beer in his publication "Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community" has shown how geopolitical actors who joined military-political alliances, such as NATO, for example, create local international communities that are essentially both integrative and disintegrative. According to the professor, members of NATO help maintain the internal peace of members, but are ready to wage war against external geopolitical actors. So the Alliance's institutions provide a framework through which members contribute a variety of resources and receive both collective and private benefits.{{Cite journal|last=Fox|first=Annette Baker|date=1972|title=Review of Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community.; NATO: The Transatlantic Bargain.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2147831|journal=Political Science Quarterly|volume=87|issue=2|pages=277–279|doi=10.2307/2147831|jstor=2147831|issn=0032-3195}}{{Cite web|title=Alliances latent war communities in the contemporary world|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500073391|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Imperial War Museums|language=en}}

• Metaphorical World Politics (Francis A. Beer and Christ'l de Landtsheer, Eds.) (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 2004).{{Cite journal|last=Hart|first=Christopher|date=2006-07-01|title=Metaphorical World Politics: Beer, Francis A., Christ'l De Landtsheer (Eds.), Michigan University Press, Michigan, 2004, x + 342 pp., ISBN 0 87013 726 3|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216605001852|journal=Journal of Pragmatics|series=Special Issue: Processes and Products of Negation|language=en|volume=38|issue=7|pages=1135–1140|doi=10.1016/j.pragma.2005.08.006|issn=0378-2166}}
• Meanings of War and Peace. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001).{{Cite web|title=Meanings of War and Peace|url=https://www.tamupress.com/9781585441242/meanings-of-war-and-peace|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Texas A&M University Press|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Eds. (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 1996).{{Cite book|last1=Beer|first1=Francis A|title=Post-Realism: the rhetorical turn in international relations|last2=Hariman|first2=Robert|date=1996|publisher=Michigan State University Press|isbn=978-0-87013-461-6|location=East Lansing|language=English|oclc=605393437}}
• Peace against War: The Ecology of International Violence. (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1981).{{Cite journal|last=Preda|first=Michael A.|date=September 1983|title=Peace against War: The Ecology of International Violence. By Francis A. Beer. (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1981. Pp. xxvi + 447. 11.95, paper.)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/peace-against-war-the-ecology-of-international-violence-by-francis-a-beer-san-francisco-wh-freeman-1981-pp-xxvi-447-2200-cloth-1195-paper/68E9315ACEFE8B391868616714689BFB#|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=77|issue=3|pages=800–801|doi=10.2307/1957333|jstor=1957333|s2cid=147951031 |issn=0003-0554}}
• How Much War in History: Definitions, Estimates Extrapolations, and Trends. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1975).
• The Political Economy of Alliances: Benefits, Costs, and Institutions in NATO. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1972).{{Cite book|last=Beer|first=Francis A|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609363|title=The political economy of alliances: benefits, costs, and institutions in NATO|date=1972|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=978-0-8039-0186-5|location=Beverly Hills [Calif.|language=English|oclc=609363}}
• Alliances: Latent War Communities in the Contemporary World, edited. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1970).
• Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969).

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• [https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/beer/ Beer's webpage, University of Colorado]
• [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francis_Beer/publications/ ResearchGate]
• [https://colorado.academia.edu/FRANCISBEER Academia]
• [http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/globalizingcommunication/ Globalizing Media]
• [https://scholar.colorado.edu/do/search/?q=beer%2C%20francis&start=0&context=5165540&facet=/ CU Scholar]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [http://francisbeer.wordpress.com/category/mythic-america/ Mythic America]

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