KINGSVILLE, TX, April 24, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Richard Eric Hartwig, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Hartwig celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Hartwig was greatly influenced by his father, Dr. H.A. Hartwig, Professor of the German language at Southern Illinois University (SIU). One of the younger Hartwig's undergraduate years at SIU was spent at the University of Hamburg in Germany (1962-63). He graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and Government in 1965.
Hartwig went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study Latin American Politics with the noted Latin Americanist Charles W. Anderson. After his first year of graduate school, Hartwig was given a Rotary International Ambassadorial Fellowship to study and work on his M.A. thesis at the National University of La Plata in Argentina. He received his M.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. He took preliminary examinations in Comparative Politics/Latin America, Public Administration, and Political Philosophy. After a series of short-term positions at several universities, Hartwig completed his studies at the U.W.-Madison. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science in 1980. Charles W. Anderson was Hartwig's Ph.D advisor.
Hartwig began his professional career with a one-year teaching job at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville, Hartwig decided to re-organize his dissertation, using a framework of types of rationality developed by the philosopher of the social sciences Paul Diesing. This delayed completion of his doctorate, but added significance to his work. (A revised version of Hartwig's dissertation was ultimately published as Roads to Reason: Transportation, Administration and Rationality in Colombia, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983.
Hartwig taught replacement semesters at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he published his first journal article with colleague Thomas Halper: "'Politics' & 'Politicization': An Exercise in Definitional Bridge-Building." Political Studies 23 [March 1975]: 71-79. Hartwig served Texas A&M University-Kingsville as Visiting Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1981. Subsequently, he was Charles E. Culpepper fellow at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1981-82). Soon thereafter, he served as Assistant Professor at Illinois State University (1982-1985). Hartwig taught Public Administration for a year on Air Force bases in four European countries with Troy State University in Alabama (1985-1986). His next stop in his years as academic gypsy scholar was at Valdosta State University in Georgia, from 1986 to 1990. While at Valdosta State, Hartwig traveled to Nicaragua with Ed Hula of Peach State Public Radio to cover the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1990. The Hula/Hartwig co-production of Nicaragua Journal received a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America.
From 1990 to 1991, Dr. Hartwig served as Fulbright-Hayes Fellow at The University of Monterrey (UDEM) in Monterrey, Mexico. He then moved across town to The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) for the following two years, where he was promoted to "Professor Titular" (Full Professor).
In the latter half of his career, Dr. Hartwig taught at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), until retiring as Emeritus Professor in 2017. He served as Chair of the Political Science Department from 1994 to 2001. During his tenure at TAMUK, Dr. Hartwig taught courses such as "The U.S. Confronts Revolution in Latin America"; "The U.S. and Revolution in Latin America;" "Latin American Politics"; "Government and Politics of Central America and the Caribbean"; "International Relations"; and "Technology & Society"--in addition to "Introduction to Political Science" and the survey class "American Government & Politics".
Hartwig's teaching at TAMUK was twice interrupted by developmental leaves. One semester, he taught at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) on a Rotary International Teaching Scholarship. Hartwig spent a second developmental leave semester at the National University of Australia in Canberra. He also received a Vaughan Park Residency in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013.
Sitting on the TAMUK Honors Program Task Force from 1999 to 2001, Hartwig was primarily responsible for the successful Political Science Department's response to the SACS requirements in 2005. He was the founder and secretary of the International Affairs Group (1995-2017), which organized up to twelve lectures per year. In his inal years at the university, he was the program director of the Political Science Program (2013-2016).
Alongside his primary endeavors, Hartwig served as Consultant at the World Bank's Transportation Department and reviewed grants for the National Endowment for the Humanities. As International Service Director for the Rotary Club of Kingsville, Texas, he organized and arranged financing for a scholarship program in Monterrey, Mexico and a rabbit-raising project in Nepal (with TAMUK professor Steven Lukefahr and Ujjwal Chapagain, owner of the Himalayan Rabbit Farm).
It is ironic, Hartwig says, that as an undergraduate, he thought he would help write constitutions for developing countries. It did not tum out that way. Hartwig's major "constitutional" proposals have been for a change in the U.S. constitution and for changes in the Charter of the United Nations. He has proposed dealing with the rural bias in U.S. politics by giving states an extra U.S. Senator for each ten million citizens. (It makes no sense for North Dakota, for example, to have the same representation in the U.S. Senate as California.) (footnote #1) Hartwig made a "Regional Economic Proposal (REP)" in Critical Currents, the on-line journal of the Dag Hammarkjöld Foundation. In this paper, he proposes that representation in the U.N. Security Council be by ten World Regions, rather than by individual countries. This would solve the legitimacy problem of former great-powers Great Britain and France having permanent representation on the Security Council--plus the veto power--while larger and more powerful countries such as Germany, Japan and India are relegated to second-class status. (footnote #2) Hartwig has also proposed a political strategy for implementing his proposal and has attempted to find political support for doing so--for example, by testifying before the Parliament of New Zealand.
Hartwig's other publications include: "Rationality and the Problems of Administrative Theory," Public Administration 56 (Summer 1978): 159-180; "Ethics & Organization," The Bureaucrat 9 (Winter 1980-81): 48-56; "Rationality & Voting," Journal of Political Science 9 (Fall 1981): 1-16; "The Dover Project." News for Teachers of Political Science 41 (Spring 1984): 2-4; "Paradox of Malevolent/Benevolent Bureaucracy," Administration & Society 22 (August, 1990): 206-227 [Reprinted in The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought, Vol. I, Bill Jenkins & Edward Page, eds. Elgar Reference Collection, 2004, pp. 49-70]; "The Gulf War and the Mexican War: "Teaching International Relations in Mexican Universities," The Texas Journal of Political Studies 19 (Fall/Winter, 1997): 1-9; "The Politics and Sociolinguistics of Foreign Language Advocacy in a South Texas University," Urbana 7, No.1 (Autumn Spring, 2002), pp. 1-27; "A Tiny Ring of Power: The Department Chair and Golden Rule Management," Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 10, No.1, January, 2004, pp. 31-42; "Paul Diesing and Social Science," Urbana VIII (Autumn 2003-4), pp. 1-22 [Reprinted as the Introduction to Paul Diesing, Science & Ideology in the Policy Sciences, Aldine/Transaction edition, 2005, pp. ix-xxiii]; "Las Contradicciones en la Educacion Superior Mexicana," Urbana, Autumn, 2006, Vol. VIII, pp. 1-10; and "Winning is Everything: The Presidency of George W. Bush", CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Polftica (ITESM). Hartwig has also written a yet-unpublished memoir entitled "South of Eden: An Expatriate in Mexico", about his years in Monterrey, Mexico between 1990 and 1993.
1 "Rebalancing Act," The Economist, July 28, 2018, p. 11.
2 "Squaring the Circle: Reforming the United Nations Security Council: A Regional/Economic Proposal (REP)". Critical Currents 4 May: 41-75, 2008
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