The Realism of Hans Morgenthau - Scholar Commons
... when it perceives that breaking any agreement with other states is in its interests. Morgenthau did not suggest that the international legal order of conventions, treaties, agreements, understandings and common shared practices of states have no effect but rather that their effect is contingent upo ...
... when it perceives that breaking any agreement with other states is in its interests. Morgenthau did not suggest that the international legal order of conventions, treaties, agreements, understandings and common shared practices of states have no effect but rather that their effect is contingent upo ...
After Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and
... defeated by Nazi and Communist totalitarianism, it was also in a sense realized in those regimes. In exploring their ambivalent attitude toward the tradition, this dissertation aims to illuminate how Arendt and Berlin contributed to the postwar imperative to think afresh about the Western tradition ...
... defeated by Nazi and Communist totalitarianism, it was also in a sense realized in those regimes. In exploring their ambivalent attitude toward the tradition, this dissertation aims to illuminate how Arendt and Berlin contributed to the postwar imperative to think afresh about the Western tradition ...
A Liberal Theory of Federalism
... government. By offering a liberal theory of federalism that can equip us with both an account of legitimacy and an institutional structure capable of effectively navigating the diversity endemic to human society, this thesis seeks to carry forward the liberal project of doing justice to what John Ra ...
... government. By offering a liberal theory of federalism that can equip us with both an account of legitimacy and an institutional structure capable of effectively navigating the diversity endemic to human society, this thesis seeks to carry forward the liberal project of doing justice to what John Ra ...
THEORY BUILDING AND DEMOCRACY: AN APPRAISAL AND
... are created to implement the rule of the people; and economies are restructured to facilitate the creation of a free political and economic society. All this in the name of democracy (Rejai 1967:202, Holden 1993: xi). Yet, democracy as a concept and how it applies to a human society is a bone of aca ...
... are created to implement the rule of the people; and economies are restructured to facilitate the creation of a free political and economic society. All this in the name of democracy (Rejai 1967:202, Holden 1993: xi). Yet, democracy as a concept and how it applies to a human society is a bone of aca ...
Machiavelli`s Morals - Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation
... This is Machiavelli’s most direct attack on the religion in which he was baptized. Significantly, it is not an attack on the Church’s attempt to subjugate politics to ethics, but on the distinction the Church made between the two. The Church’s withdrawal from, and contempt towards, this world in the ...
... This is Machiavelli’s most direct attack on the religion in which he was baptized. Significantly, it is not an attack on the Church’s attempt to subjugate politics to ethics, but on the distinction the Church made between the two. The Church’s withdrawal from, and contempt towards, this world in the ...
Machiavelli`s Morals
... comprehensive and authoritative account. Berlin explains that in the polis, politics is not an instrument for attaining a different, higher end, but a supreme value in itself. It defines man as a rational being, and leads to a fuller and happier life. Accordingly, man and politics—that is, the priv ...
... comprehensive and authoritative account. Berlin explains that in the polis, politics is not an instrument for attaining a different, higher end, but a supreme value in itself. It defines man as a rational being, and leads to a fuller and happier life. Accordingly, man and politics—that is, the priv ...
Development Studies and Global Political Economy
... o Environmental Issues: Writing (L82 350W) o Urban Ecology (L82 375) o Applications in GIS (L82 380) o Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (L82 539) History o Historical Methods (L22 301A) * depends on section o Historical Methods: Latin American History (L97 301L) o Historical Methods: Middle Ea ...
... o Environmental Issues: Writing (L82 350W) o Urban Ecology (L82 375) o Applications in GIS (L82 380) o Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (L82 539) History o Historical Methods (L22 301A) * depends on section o Historical Methods: Latin American History (L97 301L) o Historical Methods: Middle Ea ...
Skeletons in White House Closets: A Discussion of Modern
... A proper, operational definition of presidential scandals must identify three dimensions: who, what, and when. The primary issue in determining a definition of political scandals is what types of misbehavior should and should not be classified as scandalous. A secondary issue, which is relevant to i ...
... A proper, operational definition of presidential scandals must identify three dimensions: who, what, and when. The primary issue in determining a definition of political scandals is what types of misbehavior should and should not be classified as scandalous. A secondary issue, which is relevant to i ...
IV Conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis
... contextually-oriented and actor-related types of analysis. On the other hand, ethnography has also recently changed its meaning to become much more of a description of certain style (rather than just a method) of research. It is now being increasingly analytically mobilised as a research practice wh ...
... contextually-oriented and actor-related types of analysis. On the other hand, ethnography has also recently changed its meaning to become much more of a description of certain style (rather than just a method) of research. It is now being increasingly analytically mobilised as a research practice wh ...
The London Corresponding Society And The Ascension Of Popular
... citizens in attendance. Image from the British Museum…………………..211 Figure 9. The Reformers Dinner, 1809, by Samuel de Wilde. This is a depiction of the interior of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, where many of the early LCS meetings were held, particularly in 1793 and 1794. The Tavern was actually quite ...
... citizens in attendance. Image from the British Museum…………………..211 Figure 9. The Reformers Dinner, 1809, by Samuel de Wilde. This is a depiction of the interior of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, where many of the early LCS meetings were held, particularly in 1793 and 1794. The Tavern was actually quite ...
Moral Inscriptions: Politics and the Rhetoric of Responsibility
... Responsibility Blog under the very literal, if not revealing, headline, “The BP Oil Spill: Who’s Responsible?”3 By May 1st, the Obama Administration named British Petroleum (BP), the company in charge of the drilling, as the responsible party.4 Shortly thereafter, US Attorney General, Eric Holder, a ...
... Responsibility Blog under the very literal, if not revealing, headline, “The BP Oil Spill: Who’s Responsible?”3 By May 1st, the Obama Administration named British Petroleum (BP), the company in charge of the drilling, as the responsible party.4 Shortly thereafter, US Attorney General, Eric Holder, a ...
“Political parties cause divisions”: Exploring Support for
... working only to find more reason to stay. This thesis means something to me, and I am grateful to all who helped in compiling, refining, rethinking, and reworking it. First, I am grateful to the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) library staff for their tremendous help with my research and for generou ...
... working only to find more reason to stay. This thesis means something to me, and I am grateful to all who helped in compiling, refining, rethinking, and reworking it. First, I am grateful to the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) library staff for their tremendous help with my research and for generou ...
Assessing the risks of corruption to state legitimacy and stability
... The popular uprisings in North Africa are a powerful reminder that failure to curb corruption can directly affect the legitimacy and stability of political regimes. In theory, addressing corruption should be in the interest of every government as a means to ensure social peace and avoid internal con ...
... The popular uprisings in North Africa are a powerful reminder that failure to curb corruption can directly affect the legitimacy and stability of political regimes. In theory, addressing corruption should be in the interest of every government as a means to ensure social peace and avoid internal con ...
Herbert Marcuse: The Critique of Bourgeois Civilization and its
... work are complicated by a circumstance which has attended discussions of civilization throughout. However civilization has been conceived it has usually involved the idea of a new and perfected philosophical method congruent with the findings and procedures of the new natural sciences. Critics of ci ...
... work are complicated by a circumstance which has attended discussions of civilization throughout. However civilization has been conceived it has usually involved the idea of a new and perfected philosophical method congruent with the findings and procedures of the new natural sciences. Critics of ci ...
Foundations of Effective Influence Operations
... • Influencing Individuals. There is an abundance of theories and models that seek to explain individual-level attitudes, persuasive communications, and behavioral change, and although several appear to be relatively generalized and empirically robust, even the best of these have relatively modest e ...
... • Influencing Individuals. There is an abundance of theories and models that seek to explain individual-level attitudes, persuasive communications, and behavioral change, and although several appear to be relatively generalized and empirically robust, even the best of these have relatively modest e ...
THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF DISASTER AND
... The work presented here would not have been possible without the support of several institutions and individuals. I thank the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the University of Florida’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and this same institution’s Graduate Minority Office for funding t ...
... The work presented here would not have been possible without the support of several institutions and individuals. I thank the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the University of Florida’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and this same institution’s Graduate Minority Office for funding t ...
Strategic Translations: The Zapatistas from Silence to Dignity
... The emergence of a movement advocating radical political and social change from one of the poorest states in Mexico—a country considered to be the most stable in Latin America—at a time when most of the region’s guerrilla movements had been subdued took many by surprise. The fact that the uprising c ...
... The emergence of a movement advocating radical political and social change from one of the poorest states in Mexico—a country considered to be the most stable in Latin America—at a time when most of the region’s guerrilla movements had been subdued took many by surprise. The fact that the uprising c ...
Hollywood Left and Right
... FBI leaders William J. Burns and J. Edgar Hoover were so worried about the power of movie stars to affect the political consciousness of a nation that they ordered secret agents to maintain close surveillance over suspected Hollywood radicals. Four years later, Bureau agents confirmed their worst fe ...
... FBI leaders William J. Burns and J. Edgar Hoover were so worried about the power of movie stars to affect the political consciousness of a nation that they ordered secret agents to maintain close surveillance over suspected Hollywood radicals. Four years later, Bureau agents confirmed their worst fe ...
Terrorism Warnings as Strategic Appeals
... allegations. For example, when CBS News reported on President Bush‘s August 2001 daily intelligence briefing warning of a possible attack involving hijacked airplanes congressional Democrats were ―gravely concerned‖ and demanded to know ―what the president...knew.‖ Republicans saw the suggestion tha ...
... allegations. For example, when CBS News reported on President Bush‘s August 2001 daily intelligence briefing warning of a possible attack involving hijacked airplanes congressional Democrats were ―gravely concerned‖ and demanded to know ―what the president...knew.‖ Republicans saw the suggestion tha ...
Unlocking the Latino Vote: Civic Organizations As Tools for Latino
... largely undecided about their political party affiliations. They have supported both Democratic and Republican candidates in the past, and have taken both liberal and conservative stances on a variety of social issues. Another factor is that a good number of Latinos live in important swing districts ...
... largely undecided about their political party affiliations. They have supported both Democratic and Republican candidates in the past, and have taken both liberal and conservative stances on a variety of social issues. Another factor is that a good number of Latinos live in important swing districts ...
MYANMAR: THE POLITICS OF HUMANITARIAN AID 2 April 2002
... spin out of control. As part of this shift, there appears to be a new willingness to consider an expansion of certain kinds of assistance – more specifically, ‘humanitarian assistance’. Yet, many donors still harbour concerns going back to 1988 and subsequent political developments, which hinder a d ...
... spin out of control. As part of this shift, there appears to be a new willingness to consider an expansion of certain kinds of assistance – more specifically, ‘humanitarian assistance’. Yet, many donors still harbour concerns going back to 1988 and subsequent political developments, which hinder a d ...
Democratic Deliberation Procedures : Theoretical and Practical
... deliberative events that took place in the New Haven metropolitan area, organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the League of Women Voters aided by Yale’s Institutions for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas. Beginning ...
... deliberative events that took place in the New Haven metropolitan area, organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the League of Women Voters aided by Yale’s Institutions for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas. Beginning ...
Rousseau and the Ancients Rousseau et les Anciens
... Rousseau believed that no fonnal principles of political legitimacy could be defended without concurrent consideration of how human beings will be moved to observe those principles. In fact, it was this very issue upon which Rousseau distinguished his version of the general will from the reigning ve ...
... Rousseau believed that no fonnal principles of political legitimacy could be defended without concurrent consideration of how human beings will be moved to observe those principles. In fact, it was this very issue upon which Rousseau distinguished his version of the general will from the reigning ve ...
The Return of Political Patronage
... are not as good at this as politically partisan advisers who have been selected because ministers know they can rely on them to support their political programme. Why would ministers believe that objectivity and impartiality constitute a bar, or at least a handicap, to the effective implementation o ...
... are not as good at this as politically partisan advisers who have been selected because ministers know they can rely on them to support their political programme. Why would ministers believe that objectivity and impartiality constitute a bar, or at least a handicap, to the effective implementation o ...
Name - professormartin
... wide array of logical techniques. To prove that rationality and reverence go hand in hand, Dobbs compares numerous characters to Odysseus and conducts a comprehensive coverage of all conflicting aspects. In addition, to prove that Homer’s epic is relevant to today’s politics, Dobbs intentionally str ...
... wide array of logical techniques. To prove that rationality and reverence go hand in hand, Dobbs compares numerous characters to Odysseus and conducts a comprehensive coverage of all conflicting aspects. In addition, to prove that Homer’s epic is relevant to today’s politics, Dobbs intentionally str ...