Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920Chicago – August 16, 2006Seattle)^[1] was an American behavioral scientist. He was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus atStanford University. He made influential contributions to political psychology, international relations, and social science methodology.^[2]

His parents wereAssyrians fromUrmia in north-west Persia.^[3]He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at theUniversity of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in political science in 1958.

George appropriated the termprocess tracing from psychology in 1979 to describe the use of evidence from within case studies to make inferences about historical explanations.^[4]

According toDavid A. Hamburg he was among the first to lead behavioral scientists into studying the "very painful and dangerous" issues of nuclear crisis management during the Cold War era and to carry knowledge directly to policy leaders. George "focused a great deal of attention on reducing nuclear danger," he added. "I regard him as a truly great scholar and human being."^[1]

• 1975Bancroft Prize
• 1983MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
• 1997NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from theNational Academy of Sciences.^[5]
• 1998Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
• 2000 membership to theAmerican Philosophical Society^[6]

• Alexander L. George; Juliette L. George (1964).Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: a personality study. Courier Dover Publications.ISBN 978-0-486-21144-2.Alexander L George.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• The Chinese Communist Army in Action; The Korean War and Its Aftermath. Columbia University Press. 1969.ISBN 978-0-231-08595-3.
• Alexander L. George; Richard Smoke (1974).Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-231-03838-6.Richard Smoke.
• Managing U.S.-Soviet Rivalry: Problems of Crisis Prevention. Westview Press. 1983.ISBN 978-0-86531-500-6.
• Alexander L. George; Philip J. Farley; Alexander Dallin, eds. (1988).U.S.-Soviet security cooperation: achievements, failures, lessons. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-505398-2.
• Alexander L. George; Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, eds. (1991).Avoiding war: problems of crisis management. Westview Press.ISBN 978-0-8133-1232-3.
• Forceful persuasion: coercive diplomacy as an alternative to war. United States Institute of Peace Press. 1991.ISBN 978-1-878379-14-6.
• Alexander L. George; Juliette L. George (1998).Presidential personality and performance. Westview Press.ISBN 978-0-8133-2591-0.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Alexander L. George; Andrew Bennett (2005).Case studies and theory development in the social sciences. MIT Press.ISBN 978-0-262-57222-4.
• On Foreign Policy: Unfinished Business. Paradigm Publishers. 2006.ISBN 978-1-59451-264-3.
• George, Alexander/Simons William E., 1994:The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy, Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press

• Dan Caldwell; Timothy J. McKeown; Alexander L. George, eds. (1993).Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George. Westview Press.ISBN 978-0-8133-1745-8.

• 1920 births
• 2006 deaths
• MacArthur Fellows
• Scientists from Chicago
• American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent
• Scholars of diplomacy
• Bancroft Prize winners
• University of Chicago alumni
• Members of the American Philosophical Society
• 20th-century American political scientists
• Presidents of the International Studies Association

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