Robert M. Lawrence
Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
rlaw@colostate.edu
(970) 223-2940

Education:

Elementary and secondary schools, Emporia, Kansas
B.S. Kansas State University, Journalism, 1954
M.A. University of Kansas, Political Science, 1959
Ph.D University of Kansas, Political Science, 1962

Military Service:

United States Air Force. Second lieutenant; First lieutenant, 1954-1957. 326th Fighter Squadron

Professional Experience:

Hudson Institute Research Staff, 1962-1963
Texas Tech University Assistant Professor, 1963-1965
Texas Tech University Tenured Associate Professor, 1965-1967
Stanford Research Institute Research Staff, 1967-1968
University of Arizona Tenured Associate Professor, 1968-1971
Colorado State University Associate Professor, 1971-1973
Colorado State University Tenured Professor, 1973-2006
University of Colorado Visiting Professor, 1985-1996

Security Clearances: Top Secret; Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information; Atomic Energy Commission Restricted Data.

Publications-Books:

  1. A Study of Escalation, with Herman Kahn, Morris Isom, William Pfaff and Edmunc Stillman, (New York: Hudson Institute, 1953), 340 pages. Portions of the above were republished in On Escalation, Metaphors, and Scenarios, (New York: Frederick A. Prager, 1965), 308 pages.
  2. American Government Today, with Gaylon Caldwell, (New York: Norton, 1969), 515 pages.
  3. Teoria v Practica del Gobierno Actual de los Estados Unidos, with Gaylon Caldwell, (Mexico City: Editorial Diana Press, 1972), 462 pages. This book was distributed by the Department of State via the United States Information Agency’s Spanish Language Libraries.
  4. Arms Control and Disarmament: Practice and Promise, (Minneapolis: Burgess, 1973), 72 pages.
  5. Nuclear Proliferation: Phase II, with Joel Larus, eds. (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1974) 256 pages.
  6. New Dimensions to Energy Policy, ed., (Lexington, Maine: Lexington Books, 1979), 231 pages.
  7. International Energy Policy, with Martin O. Heisler, eds., (Lexington, Maine, Lexington Books, 1980), 218 pages.
  8. The Strategic Defense Initiative, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and the Center for Space Law and Policy, University of Colorado, 1987), 352 pages.

Publications-Monographs, articles , government studies, and book chapters:

  1. “Defense Expenditures and the Kansas Economy”, Your Government, Bulletin of the Government Research Center, University of Kansas, March 15, 1961, pp, 1-4.
  2. “Space Denial---An Amplification”, Air Force & Space Digest, October, 1962, pp. 54-56.
  3. “Should the US Pull Out of Europe?”, War/Peace Report, June-July, 1966, pp. 22-23.
  4. “A Frame of Reference for Studying the Political and Economic Impacts Caused by the Closure of Military Installations”, Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, October, 1966, pp. 135-147.
  5. Nth Nation Threat Analysis: West Germany, Sweden, Canada, Israel, and Selected Other Countries, with William Van Cleave, (Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1956), pp. 135-147.
  6. “Economic Effects of the Announced Closure of Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas”, with Theodore Taylor, Civilian Manpower and Community Impact Analysis: Change in Status of Military Installations, (Washington, D. C.: United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1968), 43 pages.
  7. “Assertive Disarmament”, with William Van Cleave, National Review, September, 10, 1968, pp. 898-905.
  8. “The Strategic and Political Environment”, with J. L. Kangus, John H. Morse, and Harold Rood, Air Missile, and Space Threat---1985, (Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1969), 98 pages. Classified Top Secret and Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information.
  9. Communist China and Clandestine Nuclear Weapons, with Mark Earle, Phillip Dolan, Edwin Kindeman, Terenik Koujakian, and Harold Rood, (Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1970) 143 pages. Classified Atomic Energy Commission Restricted Data.
  10. Contributor to National Security Study Memorandum No. 69, White House, 1970. Classified Top Secret.
  11. “An American National Energy Policy?”, In Growing Against Ourselves: The Energy Environment Tangle, S.L. Kwee and J.S. R. Mullander, eds, (D.C. Heath, 1972), pp. 175-191.
  12. Implications of Indian and/or Japanese Nuclear Proliferation for the U.S. Defense Policy Planning, with William Van Cleave and S. R. Young, (Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1973), 84 pages.
  13. “Research Possibilities in the Area of the Formulation and Implementation of Energy Policy---Institutions”, Energy and the Social Sciences---A Compendium of Research Needs, (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1973), Section IV, pp. 329-369.
  14. The Energy Crisis: Reality or Myth, co-edited with Norman Wengert, Fall 1973 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Social Science, 168 pages.
  15. “Energy Policy Research”, Policy Sciences Journal, Winter, 1973, pp. 141-146.
  16. “Energy and the Environment”, Environment and Colorado, Philip O. Foss, ed., (Fort Collins, Colorado: Environmental Research Center, Colorado State University, 1974, pp. 141-146.
  17. “Political-Military Factors Influencing Nuclear Proliferation”, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation regarding Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Pakistan, and Nationalist China, (Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1975), pp. 23-58.
  18. “Higher Prices, Insecurity, and Deregulation: Tradeoffs in U.S. Energy Policy”, American Behavioral Scientist, September-October, 1975, pp. 8-16.
  19. “The Nonproliferation Treaty and the Nuclear Aspirants: The Strategic Context of the Indian Ocean”, chapter three, Nuclear Proliferation and the Near-Nuclear Countries, Omi Marwah and Ann Schultz, (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1976), pp. 59-77.
  20. Regional Factors in Sitting and Planning Energy Facilities in Eleven Western States, with Norman Wengert, published by the Western Interstate Nuclear Board, funded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, November, 1976, 236 pages.
  21. Policy Studies Journal, special issue on energy policy, ed., Autumn, 1978, 131 pages.
  22. Lowery Hazardous Waste Report, ed., Colorado Governor’s Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1981, 17 pages.
  23. “Energy Policy”, chapter 32, Encyclopedia of Policy Sciences, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1983), pp. 775-804. This book was reproduced by the Peoples Republic of China Government in 1985.
  24. Deterrence v War-Fighting: Policy and Weaponry Options in 1984, and Beyond, with Stephen J. Sidorak, Jr. Colorado Consortium on International Policy, Graduate School of International Studies & the Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, 1984, 10 pages.
  25. Report of the Rocky Flats Employees Health Assessment Group, ed. Colorado Governor’s Science and Technology Advisory Council, March 21, 1984, 15 pages.
  26. Estimating Soviet Responses to BMD, co-authored with Jefferson Hofgard, Center for Space Law and Policy, University of Colorado, funded by Rockwell International, 1987, 39 pages.
  27. “UNSATS---Merging Classical Political Theory with Advanced Space Surveillance: Technology for the Post Cold War World, The High Frontier: Acquisition, Development, and Utilization, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993, pp. 111-127.
  28. “Energy Policy”, chapter 32, Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994), pp. 769-793.
  29. “Space Policy”, chapter 34, Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994) pp. 815-853.
  30. “The Interface of National Security Policy and Federal Land Policy, or The Greening of the Pentagon”, with R. McGregor Cawley, chapter 11, Post-Cold War Policy---The Social and Domestic Context, William Crotty, ed., (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1995), pp 274-292.
  31. “Military Affairs” and “Arms Control” articles in the Encyclopedia Americana Annuals from 1973 to 2001, when the publication of the Annuals, ceased.
  32. “The Preventive/Preemptive War Doctrine Cannot Justify the Iraq War”, Denver Journal of Law and Policy, University of Denver, Winter, 2004, pp. 16-30.

Publications-Other:

  1. “Salt---With China?”, published as a letter to the editor, New York Times, August 1, 1971, editorial page.
  2. “Solving the Problem with Midgetman (the small ICBM)”, op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor, June 24, 1983, editorial page.
  3. “Precedent-Setting Opposition to the MX”, op-ed in The Denver Post, March 10, 1984, editorial page.
  4. “Reagan Has Rare Chance to Control the Arms Race”, op-ed in The Rocky Mountain News, November 23, 1984, editorial page.
  5. “The Academic Facts of Life”, op-ed in The Denver Post, September 30, 1987, editorial page.
  6. “Peace in the Global Greenhouse”. with Jefferson Hofgard, op-ed in The Denver Post, November 12, 1988, editorial page.
  7. “The Cold War is Over and We Won”, op-ed in The Denver Post, June 3, 1999, editorial page.
  8. “New Dawn Breaks Over the UN”, with Andrei Piontkowsky, op-ed in The Rocky Mountain News, October 24, 1990, editorial page.
  9. “Ghost of Lenin Haunts Modern USSR”, with Andrei Piontkowsky and Christine Ferguson, op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor, January 14, 1991.
  10. Essay on Walter Roberts, Remembering Walt Roberts, (Boulder, Colorado: University Corporation for Atmospheric Science, 1991), pp. 167-168.
  11. “Atomic Bombing Held a Lesson of Life, and We Must Learn It”, op-ed in The Denver Post, August 5, 1995, editorial page.
  12. “Kosovo is No Vietnam”, op-ed in The Denver Post, April 10, 1999, editorial page.
  13. “A Call to Action for Democrats, Republicans”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, October, 23, 2001, editorial page.
  14. “Plato and the President”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, February, 1, 2001, editorial page.
  15. “Tough Times for Democrats”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, March 29, 2001, editorial page.
  16. “Taxes and the Good Life”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Forum, May 3, 2001.
  17. “Women---the Next Generation”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Forum, May 31, 2001.
  18. “A Story for the Fourth of July”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Forum, June 28, 2001
  19. “The Marketplace of Ideas is a Good Idea”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Forum, August 16, 2001.
  20. “College Football and Sheepishness”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Forum, September 6, 2001.
  21. “The War on Terrorism Breeds both Heroes and Scoundrels” op-ed in the Northern Colorado Courier, January 28, 2002.
  22. “August 29, 1945---September 11, 2001: What Has Changed?” op-ed in the Northern Colorado Courier, February 28, 2002.
  23. “Let’s Debate, Not Hate”, op-ed in the Northern Colorado Courier, April 2002.
  24. “Déjà vu---A Warning Worth Repeating”, op-ed in the Northern Colorado Courier, May 30, 2002.
  25. “By their net worth ye shall know them” with Sue O’Brien, op-ed in The Denver Post, January 12, 2003, editorial page.
  26. “Governor Has Much to Learn”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 13, 2003, editorial page.
  27. “Keep Progressive Income Tax System”, op-ed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 11, 2003, editorial page.
  28. “Big governments benefit the West”, with R. McGregor Cawley, Perspective Section, pp. 1d and 6d in The Denver Post, June 28, 2009.

Awards:

  1. United States Air Force Commendation Medal, 1957.
  2. University Daily “Teaching and Service Award”, Texas Tech University, 1967.
  3. “Twenty Best Teachers Award”, Associated Students of the University of Arizona, Course Evaluation, 1970.
  4. “University Honors Prof”, Honors Program, Colorado State University, 1978.
  5. “Charles A. Lory Award for Excellence in Teaching”, Colorado State University, 1980.
  6. “Outstanding Teacher Award”, Pi Sigma Alpha/Political Science Department, Colorado State University, 1985.
  7. “Appreciation Award”, 90th Cadet Group, USAF ROTC, Colorado State University, 1985.
  8. “Teacher of the Month Award”, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, February, 1988.
  9. “Gender Neutral Language Award”, Women’s Caucus, University of Colorado, 1992.
  10. “Outstanding Educator Award”, Chi Omega Sorority, University of Colorado, 1994.
  11. “Outstanding Teacher Award”, Pi Sigma Alpha/Political Science Department, Colorado State University, 1997.
  12. “Thomas R. Dye Award”, Policy Studies Organization, 1997.
  13. “US West Excellence in Education Award”, 1998.
  14. “John N. Stern Award for Teaching”, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, 1999.

    15. Current Activities:

    1. Fort Collins Rotary Club
    2. Director, “Burning Issues” Summer Lecture Series, Estes Park Center YMCA of the Rockies.
    3. Lecturer in OSHER Adult Learning Program, Colorado State University