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Edward Mead Earle
1894–1954
A historian of war, diplomacy, and strategy, he helped shape early thinking about security studies in the United States. His work connected military power to foreign policy at a moment when those questions were becoming urgently modern.
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Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialism
by Edward Mead Earle
About the author
Born in New York City in 1894, Edward Mead Earle studied at Columbia and served during World War I before building his career as a historian, lecturer, and public intellectual. He became known for studying how military institutions and ideas influence international relations, a theme that ran through much of his writing and teaching.
Earle spent many years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was associated with the School of Economics and Politics. During World War II he also advised parts of the U.S. government, bringing scholarly analysis to practical questions of policy and strategy.
He is especially remembered as the editor of Makers of Modern Strategy, a landmark collection on military thought that helped introduce generations of readers to the history of strategy. He died on June 23, 1954.