Paul Seabury

Paul Seabury (May 6, 1923 – October 17, 1990) was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Reagan Administration. He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution. He died in Pinole, California.

Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for Abercrombie and Fitch.

Awards

• 1964 Bancroft Prize
• 1961-62 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• "The Banality of Liberalism", The New York Review of Books, November 11, 1965
• Michael Curtis, ed. (1986). "Reviewing the United Nations". The Middle East reader. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88738-101-0.
• "Trendier than thou: the many temptations of the Episcopal Church", Harper's Magazine, 1978
• The Wilhelmstrasse, University of California Press, 1954
• Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy, Random House, 1963
• The Balance of Power, Chandler Pub. Co., 1965
• The Rise and Decline of the Cold War, Basic Books, 1967
• The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of American Foreign Policy. Basic Books. 1975. ISBN 978-0-465-02707-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
• The Grenada Papers. Institute for Contemporary Studies. 1984. ISBN 978-0-917616-67-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
• War: Ends and Means. Basic Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-465-09067-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help) (2nd edition Brassey's, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57488-610-8)