Robert W-Tucker-Obituary

Robert W Tucker

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Aug 25, 1924 – Feb 7, 2025

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BORN
August 25, 1924
DIED
February 7, 2025
LOCATION
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Robert Warren Tucker, the distinguished scholar of American foreign policy and international relations, died of natural causes on February 7, 2025. He was 100 years old. Tucker, called Bob or Robertus by his friends, was born in Inspiration, Arizona on August 25, 1924 and grew up in Hemet,...

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Stephen and I did not know Bob well, but we have good memories of the grace with which he and Judith handled his last years. We can still see him walking down Camino de Cruz Blanca in his later years.

This obituary is a wonderful summary of the remarkable life and career of Robert W. Tucker and his extraordinary contributions as a foreign policy expert, professor, and author of many books and essays. I was fortunate to know Bob through his marriage to my oldest and dearest friend, Judith Seltzer. Judith and I studied together in college during the mid to late 1960s, spent our junior year in Italy in 1968, received our M.A. in Sociology/Demography at Georgetown University, worked together...