Harry R. Targ Professor of Political Science ABBREVIATED VITA September, 2014 Current Positions: Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University Coordinator of the Committee on Peace Studies, Purdue University Education: Northwestern University, Ph.D., in Political Science, August, 1967 Articles and Book Chapters: Anderson, Lee F., Targ, Harry R., Torney, Judith.,* "A Review of Existing and Needed Research on the Development of International Orientations during Childhood and Adolescence," in James M. Becker's An Examination of Objectives, Needs and Priorities in International Education in U.S. Secondary and Elementary Schools, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, July, 1969, pp. 141-232. Targ, Harry R., "The Political Thought of Malcolm X," Authority in Crisis, Vol. 1, No. 2, December, 1969, pp. 93-106. Targ, Harry R., "Children's Developing Orientations to International Politics," Journal of Peace Research, No. 2, 1970, pp. 1-18. Sloan, John W.,* Targ, Harry R.,* "Beyond the European Nation State: A Normative Critique," Polity, Summer, 1971, pp. 501-520. Richman, Alvin,* Targ, Harry R.,* "The Impact of Instruction and External Events on Student Orientations and Opinion Consistency Concerning the Vietnam War," Sociology of Education, Spring, 1971, pp. 151-169. Targ, Harry R., "Social Science and a New Social Order," Journal of Peace Research, No. 3, 1971, pp. 207-221. Targ, Harry R., "Twentieth Century Political and Social Criticism," a syllabus published in Peace Studies: College Courses on Peace and World Order, Institute for World Order University Program, May, 1973, pp. 112-116. Targ, Harry R., "Humanizing Peace Research," Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute, Manchester College, October, 1973, pp. 31-33. Targ, Harry R., "Alternative World Futures and Undergraduate Education," Peace and Change,
Winter, 1973, pp. 17-21. Targ, Harry R., "Simulation, Teaching, and Peace Studies," Christoph Wulf, ed., Handbook on Peace Education, International Peace Research Association, 1974, pp. 325-341. Targ, Harry R., "Violence and Social Change: The Contemporary Relevance of Camus and Merleau- Ponty," Peace and Change, No. 3, Fall, 1974, pp. 10-16. Targ, Harry R., "Impacts of an Elementary School Inter-Nation Simulation on Developing Orientations to International Politics," Teaching Political Science, April, 1975, pp. 300-320. Targ, Harry R., "Constructing Models of Presents, Futures and Transitions: An Approach to Alternative World Futures," in Louis R. Beres and Harry R. Targ, eds., Planning Alternative World Futures, Praeger, 1975, pp. 131-148. Beres, Louis R.,* Targ, Harry R.*, "Perspectives on World Order: A Review and Critique," Alternatives, June, 1976, pp. 177-198. Targ, Harry R., "Global Dominance and Dependence, Post-Industrialism, and International Relations Theory: A Review," International Studies Quarterly, September, 1976, pp. 461-482. Targ, Harry R., "Societal Structure and Revolutionary Terrorism: A Preliminary Investigation," in The Politics of Terrorism, Michael Stohl, ed., Dekker, 1979, pp. 119-147 (Revised editions, 1983, 1988). Targ, Harry R., "World Order and Futures Studies Reconsidered," Alternatives, November, 1979, pp. 371-381 (followed by a rebuttal by Ali Mazrui, University of Michigan). Targ, Harry R., "Competing Theories of International Relations: An Essay on Teaching," Peace and Change, Winter, 1980, pp. 74-81. Stohl, Michael* and Targ, Harry R.*, "United States and the Third World: The Struggle to Make Others Adapt," in G. Raymond and P. Taylor ed. Third World Policies of Industrialized Nations, Greenwood, 1982, pp. 115-141. Targ, Harry R., "Imperialism, Dependency, and Class Struggle in the Caribbean: The Bahamian and Jamaican Cases." in Michael Stohl and Harry Targ ed. The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982, pp. 343-383. Stohl, Michael* and Targ, Harry R.,* "The Global Political Economy From Bretton Woods to the 1980s," in Stohl, Targ ed. The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982, pp. 1-20. Targ, Harry R.* and Stohl, Michael, "Conclusion: Conflict and Crisis in the Global Political Economy in the 1980s," in Michael Stohl and Harry R. Targ ed. The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982, pp. 385-395. 2
Roberts, M.K.*, Schwartz, C.M.*, Stohl, M.*, and Targ, H.*, "The Policy Consequences of the Green Revolution: The Latin American Case," Policy Studies Review special issue symposium on "Public Policy and World Food Sufficiency," November, 1984, pp. 320-332. (A revised version appeared in Wm. Browne, Don Hadwiger ed. World Food Policies: Toward Agricultural Interdependence, Lynne Rienner, 1986, pp. 137-153). Review essay on "Leo Hubermann," in Robert Gorman ed. Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 141-142. Review essay on "Harry Madgoff" in Robert Gorman ed. Biographical Dictionary of Marxism, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 207-209. Perrucci, C., Perrucci, R., Targ, D., Targ, H., "Impact of a Plant Closing on Workers and the Community," in Richard L. Simpson and Ida H. Simpson eds., Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 3. JAI Press, 1985, pp. 231-260. Review Essay on Charles Clements, Witness to War, An American Doctor in El Salvador, "Private Troubles and Public Issues," Monthly Review, October, 1985, pp. 57-64. Perrucci, C., Targ, D., Perrucci, R., Targ, Harry, "Plant Closings: A Comparison of Effects on Women and Men Workers," in Raymond Lee, ed. Redundancy, Layoffs and Plant Closures, Croom Helm, Ltd. Kent, U.K., 1987, pp. 181-208. Targ, H., Perrucci, Robert, Perrucci, Carolyn and Targ, D., "Worker Responses to Plant Closings." Labor Law Journal, August, 1988, pp. 562-566. Schwartz, C. Michael and Targ, H., "Agricultural Development, Political Violence, and State Militarization in Central America," in George Lopez, M. Stohl eds. Development, Dependence and State Repression, Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 237-257. Targ, Harry R., "Plant Closings and Class Struggle." Nature, Society and Thought. Vol. 3, No. 1, 1990, pp. 728. Targ, Harry R., "Foreign Policy and Class Struggle in the United Packinghouse Workers of America: 1945-1953." Nature, Society and Thought. Vol. 4, No ½. Lenart, Silvo, "Framing Rectification: U.S. Media Coverage of Cuba in the 1980s." Peace and Change, July, 1992. Polychroniou, C. and Targ, Harry R., "The Internationalization of Capital and U.S. Imperial State Policy: A Marxist Analysis of U.S. Struggles for Global Hegemony," in Perspectives and Issues in International Political Economy (Praeger, 1992, pp. 59-84). Targ, Harry R., "The Crisis of Socialism: The Cuban Case," in Chronis Polychroniou ed. Socialism: 3
Crisis and Renewal, (Praeger, 1993, pp. 88-113). Polychroniou, Chronis and Harry Targ, "Bringing Imperialism Back In: The Missing Dimension in Understanding the Fall of Socialist Regimes," in Polychroniou ed. Socialism: Crisis and Renewal, 9Praeger, 1993, pp. 15-31). Targ, Harry, "Die US-President-Schaftswahlen 1992" Marxistische Blatter, 1993, pp. 72-77 (The US Presidential Election, 1992). Targ, Harry, "Taking a More Realist view of Cuba," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 1994, B1-2. Targ, Harry R., "Imperialism in Transition: The Global Political Economy Moves Toward the Twenty-First Century," in Chronis Polychroniou and Harry R. Targ ed., Marxism Today; Essays on Capitalism,Socialism and Strategies for Social Change, (Praeger, 1996, pp. 71-87). Lenart, Silvo and Targ, Harry R., "The Media War Against Nicaragua," Peace Review, 7:3/4, 1995, 347-353. Targ, Harry, "Bringing Context Back In: Reconstructing a Left Politics," Radical Philosophy Review, Spring, 1998, pp. 54-59. Cormier, David and Harry Targ, "Labor-Led Grassroots Activism: The Fight Against NAFTA in Central Indiana," Working together to Revitalize Labor in Our Communities, University and College Labor Education Association, 1999, pp. 23-27. Targ, Harry, "The Open Door, Neoliberalism, and U.S. Foreign Policy," Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Autumn, 1999, pp. 52-56. Targ, H., and David Cormier, "Evaluating Trends in Globalization and Neoliberalism," Revista de Humanidades, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, No. 9, 2000, pp. 159-181. Cormier, David and Harry Targ, "Globalization and the North Amermican Worker," Labor Studies Journal, Spring, 2001, pp. 42-60. Targ, Harry and Judson L. Jeffries, "Camus and the New Left: From Rebels to Revolutionaries," Radical Philosophy Review, 2002, pp. 117-134. Weldon, Laurel and Harry Targ, "From Living Wages to Family Wages," New Political Science, March, 2004, pp. 71-98. Targ, Harry and Judson Jeffries, "Politics and Culture: A Look at the Modus operandi of the Most Prominent Actors within the New Left," The McNeese Review, Vol. 42, 2004, pp. 73-95. Targ, Harry, "Bush Bashing vs. Class Struggle: the Two Sides of Fahrenheit 9/11," Contemporary 4
Sociology, Vol. 33, No.5, xi-xii. 2005. Targ, Harry, "Class and Race in the USA Labor Movement: The Case of the Packinghouse Workers" in Greg Moses ed. Liberation between Selves, Sexualities, and War, Radical Philosophy Association, Vol. 3, 2006, pp. 33-45. Cormier, David and Harry Targ, "Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the "Precarious Classes": The Next Phase," Philosophy Against Empire, Radical Philosophy Association, Vol. 4, 2006, pp. 59-81. Targ, Harry, "Notes on the Afghanistan War Today," The Peace Chronicle, Spring-Summer, 2009, pp. 8-9. Targ, Harry, "Higher Education Today: Theory and Practice," MRZine, October 8, 2009. Targ, Harry, "A Mentor s Mentor: Remembering Harold Guetzkow," Simulation and Games, forthcoming. Targ, Harry, "Peace Profiles, Paul Robeson and Anne Braden," Peace Review, 2011. Books: Beres, Louis R.,* Targ, Harry R.,* ed. Planning Alternative World Futures, Praeger, 1975. Beres, Louis R.,* Targ, Harry R.* Reordering the Planet: Constructing Alternative World Futures, Allyn and Bacon, 1974, pp. 276. Revised edition issued as Constructing Alternative World Futures, Schenkman, 1977. Stohl, Michael* and Targ, H.,* ed. Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982. Targ, Harry R., International Relations in a World of Imperialism and Class Struggle: An Essay on the History of Ideas, Schenkman, 1983, pp. 216. Targ, Harry R., Cold War II: Strategy of an Empire in Decline, Marxist Educational Press, 1986, pp. 294. Perrucci, C., Perrucci, R., Targ, D., and Targ, Harry R., Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs. Aldine 1988, pp. 250. Targ, Harry R., People's Nicaragua, International Publishers 1989, pp. 128. Targ, Harry R., Cuba and The United States: A New World Order? International Publishers, 1992. Polychroniou, Chronis and Harry R. Targ ed. Marxism Today: Essays on Capitalism, Socialism, and Strategies for Social Change, (Praeger, 1996). 5
Targ Brill, Marlene and Harry Targ, Guatemala, Children s Press, Chicago, 1993. Targ, Harry R. and Marlene Targ Brill, Honduras Chidren s Press, Chicago, 1995. Harry Targ, Challenging Late Capitalism, Neo-Liberal Globalization and Militarism: Building a Progressive Majority, www. lulu.com/changemaker, 2006. Targ,Harry, Diary of a Heartland Radical, www.lulu.com/changemaker, 2011. Duncan McFarland, Paul Krehbiel, Harry Targ editors, Vietnam: From National Liberation to 21st Century Socialism, Changemaker, 2013, pp. 90. Lectures and Conference Presentations: National Science Foundation; Panels reviewing Graduate Fellowship Applications, most recently in January, 2013. 2013 Panel Presentations at Working Class Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin and the Radical Philosophy Association/University of Havana Conference, June, 2013. Participant member in the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Radical Philosophy Association. Blogger at www.heartlandradical.blogspot.com. Teacher recognition: Chosen for the Purdue Book of Great Teachers. 6