Larry George

Larry George

Office: SSPA 239

Phone: (562) 985-5289

Email: Larry.George@csulb.edu

I am Professor Emeritus of Political Science at 做厙TVState University, Long Beach, and currently a Visiting Research Scholar at UCLA.  I specialize in theories of international politics and the construction of political identities through the scapegoating of vulnerable groups.  I received my B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the Princeton University Program in Political Philosophy.  I am currently writing on what I call pharmacotic politics: the way that political scapegoating functions as medicine, poison, and addictive drug for the body politic.

Select Publications

  • Aggie Hirst and Larry N. George, Pharmacotic Wargames: Military Play as Ritual Sacrifice, Security Dialogue Volume 55, Issue 1 (2024).
  • Public lecture on Thucydides, Democracy, and Empire at St. Johns College:
  • Larry George, Commentary on Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative,' Great Transition Initiative (September 2014)
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  • Larry N. George, Leo Strauss Squid Ink: Zetetic Political Philosophy and Esoteric Reading in Tony Burns and James Connelly, The Legacy of Leo Strauss (2010)
  • Larry N. George, American Insecurities and the Ontopolitics of US Pharmacotic Wars in Francois Debrix and Mark Lacy, Eds., The Geopolitics of American Insecurity (2009)
  • Larry N. George, Review of Anne Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, Political Theory, Vol. 34, No. 3, June, 2006
  • Larry N. George, Pharmacotic War and the Ethical Dilemmas of Engagement, International Relations, Vol 19, No. 1 (2005): 115-25
  • Larry N. George, On Pharmacotic War, Chapter 11 of Bulent Gokay and R.B.J. Walker, Eds., 11 September 2001: War, Terror, and Judgement (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003, pp. 155-75.
  • Larry N. George, The Pharmacotic War on Terrorism, Theory, Culture, and Society Vol. 19, No. 4, August, 2002
  • Larry N. George, 9-11: Pharmacotic War, Theory and Event (Johns Hopkins University Press) Vol. 6, No. 1 (2001)
  • Larry N. George, Seguid Vuestro Jefe: The Polemic Supplement and the Pharmacotic Presidency. Theory and Event (Johns Hopkins University Press) Vol. 2, No. 3 (1998).
  • The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy (Coedited with David Adler), Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996)
  • Democratic Theory and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy, Ch. 2 of Adler and George, Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy, pp. 57-81
  • The Fair Fame of the Dead: The Precession of War Simulacra and the Reconstruction of Post-Cold War Conservatism, Ch. 3 of Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm, Eds., Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993)
  • Larry N. George, Tocquevilles Caveat: Centralized Executive Foreign Policy & American Democracy, Polity, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Spring, 1990), pp. 419-441
  • Realism and Internationalism in the Gulf of Venezuela, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 30, Issue 4 (Winter, 1988-89), pp. 139-70
  • La Decadencia del Dragon: U.S. Hegemonic Decline and the Future of Interamerican Relations, International Relations, Vol. IX, No. 3, May, 1988