The ebb and flow of history does not revolve solely around the material power of states. Nor is it exclusively the purview of institutions. And it is not based entirely on identity or anarchy. Instead it is about ideas and how those ideas are translated into actions. From the rise and fall of empires and […]
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I had a interesting thought today as I was reading the newspaper – what is it that connects the many different groups in a society. What is so strong that people who, for all intents and purposes, are complete opposites are still somehow connected…what is this thing called nationality? What is culture? What is civilization?
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Ideas as the motivation for International Action Abstract Paper presented at IAIS 2011 conference This paper discusses the role of ideas in political theory and practice. Politics has often been delineated by the research perspective taken, realist, liberal, constructivist, rational choice, etc. While each of these tries to differentiate itself from the other by examining
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PhD Abstract This dissertation examines whether “the West” acted as a cohesive unit in response to weapons of mass destruction proliferation (WMD) from 1989 – 2005. Adapting organizational psychology’s followership framework I examine if Britain, Australia and Israel accepted the Western leadership antiproliferation goals and if they responded with similar action to WMD proliferation. This
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Abstract Paper for presentation at ISA – South Regional Conference, October 25 – 27 2007: David Leitner.Followership.ISA South. Post Conference Rewrite This work furthers our understanding of alliance formation and intra-alliance dynamics while establishing a new means of examining alliance follower – leader relations. It proposes the use of state responses to non-state actor non-conventional weapons