Richard Felix Staar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Felix Staar

American political scientist

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1923

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 27-Mar-2018

Profession: political scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Richard Felix Staar

  • Richard Felix Staar (January 10, 1923 – March 27, 2018) was an American political scientist and historian.
  • He held a position of senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
  • His areas of specialization included Russia and East-Central Europe (former Soviet Union, post-Soviet states and the Eastern Bloc), military strategy, national security, arms control, and public diplomacy.
  • He was an author of numerous books and articles. Staar was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1923.
  • He graduated from Dickinson College in 1948 and received a master's degree from Yale University in 1949.
  • Following his master's degree, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency as an intelligence officer, holding that position until 1950.
  • In 1950 and 1951 he worked as a library assistant at the University of Michigan.
  • Also in 1951, he joined the U.S.
  • Department of State as an intelligence research specialist, a post he held until 1954, when he completed a Ph.D.
  • in political science at the University of Michigan.From 1954 to 1957, he served on the faculty of Harding College, moving to Arkansas State College for one year (1957–58).
  • In 1958 he went to Munich, Germany, where he served for one year as chief of program analysis for Radio Free Europe.
  • He returned to the United States in 1959 to become a member of the faculty of Emory University, where he remained until 1969 when he joined the Hoover Institution.
  • There, he became the editor in chief of the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs from 1969 until 1991.In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the position of U.S.
  • Ambassador to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) negotiations in Vienna, Austria, a position he held until resigning in 1983.
  • He has also been a visiting professor at the National War College, and was a colonel in the U.S.
  • Marine Corps Reserve.
  • In 1983, at the age of 60, he was awarded the presidential Legion of Merit.The Sarmatian Review, in a review of his book Born Under A Lucky Star: Reminiscences, said of him: "As associate director of the Hoover Institution for a critical twelve years, he helped make that organization serve the Soviet-slaying purpose for which its founder had endowed it."He died on March 27, 2018.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also