Dr. Dawoody Publishes New Books

Marywood faculty member Alexander Dawoody, Ph.D., Director of Marywood University’s Ph.D. Program in Strategic Leadership and Administrative Studies, recently published eight new books spanning topics in public administration, history, philosophy, and the arts.

Scholarly Works

The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Complexity Reading
In this work, Dr. Dawoody introduces the paradigms of the new sciences of complexity and applies them to policy analysis. Drawing on data from Allison and Zelikow’s Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1999), the book presents a conceptual analysis of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis through the lens of complexity science. It also incorporates a Constructive Metaphorical Model for complexity-based data interpretation.
ISBN: 9798292669401 (Hardcover) | 9798292671299 (Paperback)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025915132

The Quantum Metaphors
This book discusses the use of quantum and chaos theories as metaphors in the social sciences. It emphasizes intentionality, flux, uncertainty, emergence, relations, non-linearism, irrationality, and process.

History of Iraq: From Inventing Civilization to the Modern Failed State
This book examines the history and political trajectories in Iraq, from early Mesopotamia and the invention of civilization to the shaping of the modern Iraqi state. It traces events from the creation of writing, astronomy, laws, and administration through Islamic conquests, the Abbasid Caliphate, Ottoman-Persian conflicts, the Gulf Wars, and the U.S. invasion of 2003, concluding with Iraq’s ongoing political challenges and future prospects.

Creative Works

Purple Strokes: A Collection of Oil and Acrylic Paintings
A collection of 46 oil and acrylic paintings from Dr. Dawoody’s “Purple Period,” a phase in which purple predominates in his neoimpressionist style. Each title reveals the intended meaning behind brush strokes, compositions, and structural forms.
ISBN: 9798315979609 (Hardcover) | 9798319258939 (Paperback)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025907252

The Yellow Period: A Collection of Oil Paintings
This collection highlights works from Dr. Dawoody’s “Yellow Period,” featuring yellow as the central color in his neoimpressionist approach.
ISBN: 9798310457270 (Hardcover) | 9798310624313 (Paperback)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025902760

The Train Station
Written in the form of a play, this book explores character, personality, archetypes, myth, ego, suppressed feelings, and existential questions. Through elements of philosophy, comedy, and poetry, it considers how human imagination constructs meaning and examines the role of God in human consciousness.
ISBN: 9798310257214 (Paperback) | 9798310255760 (Hardcover)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025902684

The Administrative State on Trial
Also written in play form, this work explores theories and debates that shaped the American administrative system. It covers pluralism, rationality, scientific management, the Hawthorne experiment, models of governance, and constitutional foundations, while also addressing liberty, property, and reputation.
ISBN: 9798311013321 (Paperback) | 9798312116854 (Hardcover)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025903189

Reflections
A collection of notes and reflections that explore issues of life, morality, philosophy, metaphysics, art, and aspiration. It includes seven short stories and four essays.
ISBN: 9798287463533 (Hardcover) | 9798287465018 (Paperback)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025912231

All eight books are available for purchase on Amazon.