Edward Buehrig

Buehrig was born in Minier, Illinois, and attended Illinois State University where he served as an editor of the Vidette student newspaper.[1][2] He subsequently transferred to the University of Chicago, from which he graduated. Buehrig went on to receive a M.A. in International relations, also from Chicago, with a thesis titled "Why the United States took the Philippines Islands", and later earned a Ph.D. from the same institution with his dissertation, "American Intervention in Europe, 1917".[3][1][4]

In 1934 Buehrig began teaching at Indiana University, where he would remain – except for three, short interludes – until his retirement in 1981. During World War II Buehrig worked in the United States Department of State and served as Secretary-General of the Italo-Yugoslav Boundary Commission;[1][5] after the war he again departed Indiana to spend a year at Princeton University researching the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. A third hiatus came in 1957 when he spent one year teaching at the American University of Beirut (AUB).[1] According to Elsa Marston, she met her husband Iliya Harik at an AUB lecture given by Buehrig.[6]

Buehrig served as acting president of the Midwest Political Science Association during 1955.[7] On being appointed chair of the political science department at Indiana in 1980, Elinor Ostrom recalled that she "realized that Professor Buehrig would be retiring within a year [and] I shuddered to think of all the memory and insight about the Department that might be lost to future generations". At Ostrom's request, Buehrig wrote "Political Science at Indiana: An Historical Essay", chronicling the history of the department up to that point.[8]

In May 1986, three months before his death, Illinois State University awarded Buehrig an honorary degree.[9]

• Buehrig, E (1950). "Wilson's Neutrality Re-Examined". World Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1–19
• Buehrig, E (1950). "The United States, the United Nations and Bi-Polar Politics". International Organization, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 573–584
• Buehrig, E (1955) Woodrow Wilson and the Balance of Power Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Buehrig, E (1957) Wilson's Foreign Policy in Perspective Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Buehrig, E (1965). "The International Pattern of Authority". World Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 369–385
• Buehrig, E (1966) Essays in Political Science Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Buehrig, E (1986) The Perversity of Politics Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm.