Rohan Mukherjee. 2022. Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
In: The review of international organizations, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 177-180
ISSN: 1559-744X
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In: The review of international organizations, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 177-180
ISSN: 1559-744X
In: Journal of political science education, Volume 17, Issue sup1, p. 40-50
ISSN: 1551-2177
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Power Transition Theory and the Essence of Revisionism" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 438-458
ISSN: 1528-3585
National Security Council is a real-time, semester-long simulation of the senior advisory group to the US President on national security and foreign policy. The simulation requires undergraduate students to role-play policymakers charged with long-range security planning and responding to actual events and crises as they happen. Students are encouraged to exercise their own judgment, but must operate within the political, bureaucratic, and organizational confines of the office (for example, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc.). Students conduct briefings, develop initiatives, and debate policy positions and proposals. Weekly meetings are supplemented with occasional special sessions to deal with real-world developments (for example, Arab Spring protests, military crisis with North Korea, major humanitarian emergency). The simulation course promotes accountability, independent and team learning, and oral communications skills, and forces students to grapple with bureaucratic turf battles, time pressure, and rapidly changing real-world situations. Several iterations between 2007 and 2012 yield insights into best practices for pedagogy and assessment, but also raise questions about the appropriate roles of technology, social networking, and the Internet. Adapted from the source document.
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 438-458
ISSN: 1528-3585
In: Foreign policy analysis, Volume 7, Issue 3, p. 253-274
ISSN: 1743-8594
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 131-144
ISSN: 1468-2478
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"International Organizations and Preventing War" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Journal of contingencies and crisis management, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 60
ISSN: 0966-0879
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Volume 43, Issue 6, p. 675-704
ISSN: 1552-8766
This article analyzes the evolution of power transition theory from the perspective of Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programs. The authors reconstruct the development of the power transition research program by analyzing its hard core of irrefutable assumptions, its negative and positive heuristics, and exemplary works contributing to its protective belt of testable auxiliary hypotheses. It is argued that some developments (e.g., Lemke's multiple hierarchy model) constitute progressive problemshifts, but other areas of the research program exhibit signs of degeneration. These include the treatment of the timing and initiation of wars associated with power transitions and causal mechanisms driving such wars. Findings show that the evolution of the power transition research program has generally been progressive in Lakatosian terms, but its future vitality will require continued efforts to explain the above-mentioned theoretical and empirical anomalies in a way that is consistent with the hard core of the research program and that generates new testable propositions.
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Volume 43, Issue 6, p. 675-704
ISSN: 0022-0027, 0731-4086
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Volume 64, Issue 2
ISSN: 1938-274X
Multimethod analysis of earthquakes' effects in two enduring rivalries demonstrates that natural disaster can promote rapprochement, political steps toward warmer relations that make it difficult for interstate rivalry to continue. Public expression of compassion and support for rapprochement create audience costs for leaders who otherwise would maintain hostile policies toward the rival state. However, routine violence, including communal violence, discourages public support for postdisaster cooperation and rapprochement. Content analysis and time-series analysis of rivalry change in two cases, India-Pakistan and Greece-Turkey, demonstrate these phenomena, and comparative case study analysis shows that communal violence helps account for divergent outcomes between the two cases. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Southern California Political Science Association, Northern California Political Science Association, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 260-276
ISSN: 1065-9129
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 260-275
ISSN: 1938-274X
Multimethod analysis of earthquakes' effects in two enduring rivalries demonstrates that natural disaster can promote rapprochement, political steps toward warmer relations that make it difficult for interstate rivalry to continue. Public expression of compassion and support for rapprochement create audience costs for leaders who otherwise would maintain hostile policies toward the rival state. However, routine violence, including communal violence, discourages public support for postdisaster cooperation and rapprochement. Content analysis and time-series analysis of rivalry change in two cases, India—Pakistan and Greece—Turkey, demonstrate these phenomena, and comparative case study analysis shows that communal violence helps account for divergent outcomes between the two cases.