Email: gquest at umd * edu

Education

• Columbia College 1954-58, A.B. History
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1958-59, Meteorology (while on active duty, US Air Force)
• Harvard University 1961-65 M.A., Ph.D. Political Science

Positions

Aside from the University of Maryland, George Quester has taught at Cornell and Harvard Universities, at UCLA, in the Department of Military Strategy at the National War College, and as the John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy.

Fields of Study

• International Politics
• American Foreign Policy
• International Military Security

Classes

• GVPT 409H: Honors Seminar on "Taiwan, Mainland China, and the World"
• GVPT 457: "American Foreign Policy"   

Deterrence Before Hiroshima (New York: Wiley, 1966) (Reissued, New Brunswick, New Jersey:  Transaction Books, 1986)

Nuclear Diplomacy: The First Twenty-five Years (New York: Dunellen, 1970) 

The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1973)

The Continuing Problem of International Politics (New York: Dryden Press, 1974)

Offense and Defense in the International System (New York: Wiley, 1976) (Reissued, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1988)

American Foreign Policy:  The Lost Consensus (New York: Praeger, 1982)

The Future of Nuclear Deterrence (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1986)   

 The International Politics of Television (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990)

 Nuclear Monopoly (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books: 2000)