Irving Louis Horowitz

Irving Louis Horowitz is the Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. He is the founder of Studies in Comparative International Development—now in its 40th year. He is also chairman of Transaction-Aldine Publishers. From 1962 to1969, Horowitz was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, Queen’s University in Canada, and the University of California, and a Fulbright Lecturer in Argentina, Israel, and India.

Dr. Horowitz is recognized as the individual who introduced the phrase "Third World" into the lexicon of social research.

Resources by this Author:

• Moral Theory and Policy Science: A New Look at the Gap Between Foreign and Domestic Affairs [Abstract]

Worldview Articles

• Volume 26, no. 12, December 1983
  Cuba and the Caribbean
• Volume 21, no. 9, September 1978
  Small Lives for Big Words: Individualism and State Power Reconsidered
• Volume 20, no. 9, September 1977
  Death and Transfiguration in the Third World
• Volume 19, no. 11, November 1976
  Book Review: A Funeral Pyre for America
• Volume 18, no. 1, January 1975
  Race, Class, and the New Ethnicity
• Volume 16, no. 12, December 1973
  Book Review: The People: Growth and Survival
• Volume 16, no. 5, May 1973
  Israel—The Years Ahead
• Volume 15, no. 11, November 1972
  Correspondence
• Volume 15, no. 9, September 1972
  Israel Developing

Resource Highlights

Will people associate U.S. power with "global misery" or with the opportunity and pluralism that Obama's victory represents? > More

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