Thompson, Kenneth W.

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Name
Thompson, Kenneth W. Gender: M
Kenneth Winfred Thompson
born on 29 August 1921 at 16:10 (= 4:10 PM )
Place Des Moines, Iowa, 41n36, 93w37
Timezone CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_vircol.18.gif 06°00' s_mo.18.gif s_cancol.18.gif 20°29 Asc.s_capcol.18.gif 13°25'



Biography

American academic and author known for his contributions to normative theory in international relations. In 1978 he became director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He retired as director in 1998, but continued to head its Forum Program until 2004.

Thompson's Principles and Problems of International Politics, a volume of readings co-edited with his mentor, Hans Morgenthau, provided the intellectual guidelines for his thinking through the succeeding four decades. Primary among these guidelines is a reliance on history. Thompson has seen himself as part of the influential tradition of political realism, the heir of the thought of Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr, and the sustainer of the subsequent generation of scholars. He organized and coedited the innovative seventh edition of Politics among Nations released by McGraw Hill.

Kenneth W. Thompson died on 2 February 2013 at age 91.

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Relationships

Events

  • Work : Great Achievement 1950 (PhD)

Source Notes

Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.

Categories

  • Traits : Mind : Education extensive (PhD)
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 91)
  • Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor)
  • Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction