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Johan Karel de Vree (April 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017) was a Dutch
political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
, and professor Theory of International Relations at
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,Prof.mr.dr. J.K. de Vree (1938 - 2017)
at Catalogus Professorum Utrecht University. Accessed 12.02.2021.
known for his "scientists" approach to political science.Hand Daudt.
De wetenschap der politiek II
" in: Bart Tromp. ''De wetenschap der politiek.'' 2002. p.53-73.


Biography

De Vree started the
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study in 1959 at the
Delft University of Technology The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
. The next year in 1960 he moved to
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...
, where he obtained his MA in political and social sciences in 1967. He continued his graduate study and obtained his PhD in 1972 under Hans Daudt with the thesis ''Political integration: the formation of theory and its problems.'' After his graduation in 1967 De Vree started his academic career as lecturer at the Europa Institute of the University of Amsterdam. In 1973 he was appointed Professor Theory of International Relations at the Utrecht University, where he retired in 1999. De Vree was na active member of the Dutch Political Science Association, where he was president from 1975 to 1983. He was also a member of the
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and of the
New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), originally founded as the Lyceum of Natural History in January 1817, is a nonprofit professional society based in New York City, with more than 20,000 members from 100 countries. It is the fourth-oldes ...
. De Vree is particularly known for the comprehensive formal theory of human behavior, that he had built on throughout his career. He felt related to the theoretical physicists, who strived for a
theory of everything A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical physics, theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links togeth ...
. He is looking for the systems that underlay human behavior. This approach he thought would eventually lead to "a kind of socio-political weather forecast".


Selected publications

* De Vree, Johan K. ''Political integration: the formation of theory and its problems,'' PhD thesis University of Amsterdam, 1967. * De Vree, Johan K. ''Het stervensuur van Leviathan? Beschouwingen over de ontwikkeling van staat en internationale samenleving.'' Inaugural lecture Utrecht University, 1973. * De Vree, Johan K. ''Foundations of social and political processes: the dynamics of human behavior, politics and society.'' Bilthoven : Prime Press, 1982. * De Vree, Johan K. ''Order and disorder in the human universe: the foundations of behavioral and social science.'' 3 Volumes. Bilthoven : Prime Press, 1990. was published. ;Articles, a selection * De Vree, Johan K. "The behavioral function: An inquiry into the relation between behavior and utility." Theory and Decision 15.3 (1983): 231–245. * De Vree, Johan K., and Johan C. Dagevos. "The structure of action and interaction: The structural similarity of systems in social science." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 19.2 (1994): 91–127. * De Vree, Johan K. "A note on information, order, stability and adaptability." BioSystems 38.2-3 (1996): 221–227. ;About his work * Dagevos, J.C., ''Towards a model of social interaction : on the dynamics of science, power, and dependence.'' PhD thesis Utrecht University, Bilthoven : Prime Press, 1994.


References

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