Harlan Cleveland
Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American diplomat, educator, and author.[1] He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965. He was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Cleveland also served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.[2]
Harlan Cleveland | |
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Harlan Cleveland in DC, 2006 | |
| 6th United States Permanent Representative to NATO | |
| In office September 1, 1965 – June 11, 1969 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Thomas K. Finletter |
| Succeeded by | Robert Ellsworth |
| Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs | |
| In office February 23, 1961 – September 18, 1965 | |
| President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | Francis O. Wilcox |
| Succeeded by | Joseph J. Sisco |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 19, 1918 New York City, New York |
| Died | May 30, 2008 (aged 90) Sterling, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
He was born in New York City to Stanley Matthews Cleveland and Marian Van Buren. His siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland, an economist, Anne Cleveland White, an artist, and Stanley Cleveland, a diplomat. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1930s. He was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Global Citizenship edit
Harlan Cleveland was president of the University of Hawaii. During 1969-1974, the university added a medical school, a law school and an international astronomy project. [3]
During the 1980s Cleveland was elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS) and a member of the Club of Rome and served actively in both organization for more than a quarter century. He served as president of the World Academy of Art Science (1990–1998) and remained a member of the board of trustees until his death in 2008.
After participating in the final meeting of the International Commission on Peace & Food (ICPF) at the Carter Presidential Center in October 1993, Cleveland released ICPF's report to the UN entitled Uncommon Opportunities: Agenda for Peace & Equitable Development at the Minneapolis General Assembly in October 1994 and then served as chairman of the commission's successor organization International Center for Peace and Development in California through the rest of his lifetime.[4][5]
He also represented both WAAS and ICPD at the 10th anniversary conference of ICPF in Delhi in October 2004. During this period, the academy took up a number of the research programs initiated by ICPF, including its work on nuclear abolition, cooperative security, employment and theory of social development.[6]
Future Thought Leadership edit
He authored twelve books, among his best-known are The Knowledge Executive (1985) and Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership (2002).[7] He also published hundreds of journal and magazine articles.
He wrote the final chapter of ‘’The Bretton Woods-GATT System Retrospect and Prospect After Fifty Years’’ (1996).[8] His final published writing was the opening chapter for "Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice" (2004) entitled, "Leading and learning with nobody in charge."[9]
He was awarded 22 honorary degrees, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award, and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. He was the co-winner (with Bertrand de Jouvenel) of the 1981 Prix de Talloires, an international award for "accomplished generalists". He was a trustee of the Chaordic Commons. [10]
True North Influencer edit
He served as director of international affairs at the Aspen Institute from 1974 to 1980 before becoming the first dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. [3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis (13 June 2008). "Harlan Cleveland, Diplomat and Scholar, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ Nishimoto, Warren; Cleveland, Harlan (1996). "Interview with Harlan Cleveland" (PDF). 25-1-1-96, 25-2-1-96, 25-3-2-96, 25-4-2-96, 25-5-3-96, 25-6-4-96, 25-7-4-96, 25-8-5-96, 25-9-5-96, 25-10-6-26, 25-11-7-96, 25-12-7-96, 25-13-8-96, 25-14-8-96. hdl:10125/30683. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Harlan Cleveland; Dean, Author, Statesman and Lifelong Learner". Washington Post. 2008. Retrieved Nov 30, 2023.
- ^ International Commission on Peace and Food, Uncommon Opportunities: An Agenda for Peace and Equitable Development, Zed Books, UK, 1994.
- ^ "International Center for Peace and Development". www.icpd.org.
- ^ "Human Choice: The Genetic Code for Social Development". www.icpd.org/development_theory/Human%20Choice--booklet%20.htm.
- ^ "Harlan Cleveland". www.goodreads.com.
- ^ The “Informatization” of World Affairs. Routledge. July 17, 2015. ISBN 9781315700212.
- ^ "Creating a Learning Culture: History of economic thought and methodology". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
- ^ "Chaordic Commons History". 2005. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
- Obituary in The Washington Post
- University of Hawaiʻi press release
- In Memory of Harlan Cleveland by Patrick Mendis in The Minnesota Post 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
External links edit
- The Futurist magazine archives
- InOp Cleveland on Leadership, an article from THE FUTURIST magazine 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- International Leadership Forum