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Terrance E. Cook. The Man, the Myth, the Legend. I cannot say enough about this professor. He has contributed so very much to the pool of hilarious jokes between my friends and I. It has truly complimented my collegiate career. Thank you so much for your enlightenment.

Sincerly,

Pearl Flood Goldsworthy WSU Alumni 1913

redone summer/98

Vita

Terrence E. Cook

Professor, Political Science

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington 99164-4880

Phones: (509) 335-4031 (office), or 332-4657 (home)

Receive Fax: (509) 335-7990

E-Mail: tcook@wsu.edu

I: Educational Background

Biographical:

Born 7/28/42;

Married since 1972, my wife Annabel is a sociologist-

demographer, Professor and Chair in Rural Sociology, also at

Washington State University

Two children ages 17 (Eryn) and 20 (Andrew)

No health problems, active cyclist, kayaker, etc.

Degrees:

Princeton University, Ph.d. Politics, 1971; in their

interdisciplinary Program in Political Philosophy.

Princeton University, M.A. Politics, 1966

University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., International

Relations, Honors Program, 1964

Professional and Academic Honors and Awards

Postgraduate

President, Pacific Northwest Political Science (Oct.

1991-Oct. 1992)

Senior Guest Lecturer, Program in International Relations,

Faculty of Law, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia,

Aug. 30-Feb. 1, 1993-94

Graduate (Princeton)

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow (1966-67)

McCormick and Ford Fellowships (1965-66)

Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1964-65)

Undergraduate (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Eta Sigma

Honors Program Graduate

Recipient of Three Scholarships: High School Honor,

Western Electric Corp., and Regents Student Activity

Other Information

- at Princeton my study and prelim exam fields included

(1) Political Theory,

(2) Comparative Politics,

(3) International Relations.

I yet keep up with, and teach in, all three subfields.

- my Ph.d. was written under the supervision of Michael

Walzer, Robert Faulkner, and Paul Sigmund

- I read and speak Spanish, French, some German, a little

Slovakian (very close to Czech, related to Russian)

- I have traveled extensively through much of East and

West Europe, Latin America, China, and India.

This includes an unpaid leave in the 1972-73 academic

year studying comparative politics in South America (most of

the time in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile).

In May 1991 I toured historical sites in much of central

China (Sichuan, Xiansi, and the Beijing areas) with a small

Washington State University group guided by the Sichuan

Foreign Ministry as well as a W.S.U. Professor of

History specialized in China. Including a stay in Hong Kong,

it was part of a summer training course for the teaching of

Human Civilization.

I also joined a World Civilization training tour of India

in December 1992, which visited key historic sites from Agra

and New Delhi to Calcutta. Thailand was also included.

In August 1991 I attended a summer training course on

Middle Eastern civilizations, Greece, and Rome.

In June 1992 I was a participant in a second training

seminar focused on the case method and simulations in science

and technology public policy analysis.

In June 1994 I was in a week-long training seminar on

Africa.

II: Employment Experience

Washington State University, Department of Political Science

Full Professor, effective Aug. 16, 1993

Associate Professor, 1975-93

Assistant Professor, 1969-74

Instructor, 1967-69

As noted above, Senior Guest Lecturer International Relations

Program, Faculty of Law, Comenius Unversity, Slovakia, fall

1993.

Tenured, 1972

Professional Leaves: 1975-6 academic year; 1981 fall semester;

1987-88 academic year; 1993-94 academic year.

Graduate Faculty from 1974; I have been chair or member of many

graduate program committees and Ph.d. dissertation committees.

Most chair roles for Ph.D. (14, 10 completions) have focused on

topics in political theory, comparative politics, international

relations, or public policy.

III: Teaching Experience

Specialization

I regard myself as a general theorist, compassing both

normative theory and empirical theory (including philosophy of

science, theoretical approaches, and the building of an empirical

theory of politics, comparative and international). As my

publications show, I prefer to do synoptic rather than highly

specialized research. I am increasingly interested in

"grand theory" of regime development and decline.

Courses Taught

a) Graduate Level

Seminar in Political Theory: This has been of

varying content, including foci on modern theory,

democratic theory, human nature and sociobiology,

and Marxisms after Marx. In 1994 it was a medley of comparing

competitive systems, democratic theory, and theories of

punishment. In fall 1995, the whole seminar focused on

theories of punishment as linked to political theory.

Advanced Issues in Comparative Politics. I offer

a seminar which addresses problems in comparative and

international. One year focused on contrast of

the empirical sides of liberal and Marxist theories.

My spring 1994 seminar reviewed all domains of

comparative political theory, from analysis of models for

agent choice in conditions of uncertainty to large scale

change. Strategic "nested" choice was the unifying theme,

focused on "rules" of opportunistic action or Realpolitik as

and their constraint by normative rules.

Seminar in Theories and Methods in International Relations:

As noted above, I taught (in English) two levels of a total of

55 graduate students training for the Slovakian Foreign

Ministry (many already employed there) in fall

1993.

American Political Culture. I have taught another core

seminar for our American Political Institutions field focused

on American political culture, constituting a seminar for

our field called American political institutions as well as

an offering in the interdepartmental American Studies Program.

Scope of Political Science: The standard course

in philosophy of science and theoretical approaches in the

discipline. This is not a regular responsibility, but I

taught it as a substitute in 1988 and again in 1991.

Seminar in Public Policy: Not a regular assignment but

a substitute offering taught with a colleague (John Pierce)

in 1989, this covered policy analysis and evaluation and

outlined substantive domains of economic policies (regulatory,

revenue, budgetary), security policies (international,

domestic) and group symbolic or status policies.

Upper Division Undergraduate:

Classical Political Theory: Pre-Socratics to

Machiavelli.

Recent Political Theory: Machiaveli to Mill: The

rise of liberalism.

American Political Thought: Puritans to the

present.

Development of Marxist Thought: Forerunners,

anarchists, Hegel, Marx, Marxists.

World War III: I largely planned and then coordinated

a team-taught course of scenarios, causes, possible

preventives of thermonuclear war. This was twice

taught with large enrollments at the peak of the

Cold War tensions, 1983-4.

Parties and Pressure Groups: The standard course

which I have taught as a substitute.

Lower Division Undergraduate:

General Education 111 or Human Civilization II: A

general survey focused on problem-solving in history,

1500 to the present.

Honors Course in Political Science. This was long my

regular lower division role.

Introduction to Comparative Politics. Taught topically

more than by geographic area, most recently summer 1997.

American Government. The standard 101.

IV: Research and Publication Activity

a) Print Publications

(1) Dissertation: Rousseau: Education and Politics.

Princeton University, 1971.

(2) Books:

Terrence E. Cook. Development and Decline of State and

Interstate Regimes. Contract offered for late 1998, Lang

Publishers.

Terrence E. Cook, Criteria of Social Science Knowledge:

Interpretation, Prediction, Praxis. Savage, Md.: Rowman and

Littlefield. 1994. 150 pp.

Terrence E. Cook. The Great Alternatives of Social Thought:

Aristocrat, Saint, Capitalist, Socialist. Savage, Md.: Rowman and

Littlefield. 1991. 301 pp.

Terrence E. Cook and Patrick M. Morgan, eds., Participatory

Democracy. San Francisco: Canfield Press. 1971. 487 pp.

Other single-authored book manuscripts completed, awaiting

favorable publishers' reviews.

(3) Articles:

Terrence E. Cook, "Rousseau: Education and Politics,"

Journal of Politics, Vol. 37, Spring 1975, 108-28.

Terrence E. Cook, "Political Justifications: The Use of

Standards in Political Appeals," Journal of Politics, Vol. 42,

May 1980, 511-37.

Terrence E. Cook, "'Misbegotten Males'? Innate Differences

and Stratified Choice in the Subjection of Women," The Western

Political Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1983, 194-220.

Terrence E. Cook, "The Courtship of Capital: Political

Implications of Increasingly Portable Capital and Fixed

Territorial Jurisdictions of Government," Policy Perspectives,

Vol. 3, No. l, Spring 1983, 69-105.

(4) Book Chapters:

Terrence E. Cook, "The Political Setting," Chapter One, pp. 1-

19 of David C. Nice, John C. Pierce, and Charles H. Sheldon, eds.,

Government and Politics in the Evergreen State. Pullman, Wa.:

Washington State University Press. 1992. The chapter covers the

ecological-economic setting, population, dimensions of policy

cleavage, and the main political games.

(forthcoming) Terrence E. Cook, "Reconciliation Through Higher

Education? Paradoxes of Cooperation and Competition." Henry

Carey and Ben Works, eds., The Politics of Reconciliation in

Postcommunist Europe (N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1998).

(5) Miscellaneous: "Learning (Doing) Normative Political

Theory," News for Teachers of Political Science, No. 18, Summer

1978, 2-3.

Book reviews have appeared in The American Political Science

Review, The Journal of Politics, The Western Political Quarterly,

Perspective, and The Western Journal of Black Studies.

I have made nearly 40 mostly sole-authored conference

presentations, mostly concerning normative theory and empirical

theory or applications in comparative politics and international

relations.

My home page: http://www.wsu.edu/~tcook