Klinghoffer, Arthur Jay 1941-

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Klinghoffer, Arthur Jay 1941-


PERSONAL:

Born July 30, 1941, in New York, NY; son of Sidney and Libby Klinghoffer; married Judith Apter (a teacher), May 18, 1969; children: Joella. Education: University of Michigan, B.A., 1962; Columbia University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1966.

ADDRESSES:

Home—103 Wayside Dr., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. Office—Department of Political Science, Camden Campus, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in political science, 1965-66; Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, assistant professor of political science, 1966-70; Rutgers University, Camden Campus, Camden, NJ, associate professor, 1970-78, professor of political science, 1978—.

MEMBER:

American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma.

WRITINGS:


Soviet Perspectives on African Socialism, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (East Brunswick, NJ), 1969.

Soviet Oil Politics in the Middle East and Soviet American Relations, Russian and East European Research Center, Tel-Aviv University (Tel-Aviv, Israel), 1976.

The Soviet Union and International Oil Politics, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1977.

The Angolan War: A Study in Soviet Policy in the Third World, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1980.

The Political Economy of Soviet Gold: Some Implications for American Foreign Policy, Soviet and East European Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel), 1983.

(With wife, Judith Apter Klinghoffer) Israel and the Soviet Union: Alienation or Reconciliation?, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1985.

Oiling the Wheels of Apartheid: Exposing South Africa's Secret Oil Trade, Lynn Rienner (Boulder, CO), 1989.

(With Michael Radu) The Dynamics of Soviet Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, Holmes & Meier (New York, NY), 1991.

Red Apocalypse: The Religious Evolution of Soviet Communism, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1996.

The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda, New York University Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Judith Apter Klinghoffer) International Citizens' Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2002.

The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 2006.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September, 1982, review of The Angolan War: A Study in Soviet Policy in the Third World, p. 158.

Choice, November, 1999, review of The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda, p. 612.

Foreign Affairs, spring, 1981, review of The Angolan War, p. 963; fall, 1985, review of Israel and the Soviet Union: Alienation or Reconciliation?, p. 190.