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Robert G. Patman

Bio: Robert G. Patman is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foreign policy & National security. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 32 publications receiving 144 citations.

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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In the last three and half decades, major structural changes in the international system have raised a big question mark over the Westphalian principle of state sovereignty that assumes that a state exercises legal, unqualifi ed and exclusive control over a designated territory and population.
Abstract: Major structural changes in the international system over the last three and half decades have raised a big question mark over the Westphalian principle of state sovereignty that assumes that a state — subject to international recognition — exercises legal, unqualifi ed and exclusive control over a designated territory and population. The end of the Cold War in the late 1980s and the process of deepening globalization served to profoundly alter the global political context. These changes seem to make the world a much smaller and more interconnected place, but one that is seemingly fragmented by the erosion of the autonomy of the sovereign state and the rise of intra-state confl ict. These changes seem to make the world a much smaller and more interconnected place, but one that is seemingly fragmented by the erosion of the autonomy of the sovereign state and the rise of intrastate confl ict. In this new environment where shared challenges — such as food security, water availability, health management — require strong interactions between the science and technical communities across borders, science has taken on a role of greater importance in the international system. As a consequence, a globalizing world has eroded the old dichotomy between science and diplomacy, and helped to facilitate the emergence of science diplomacy whereby scientifi c collaborations among nations are necessary to tackle increasingly common challenges. In this introductory chapter, we explore the evolving relationship between science and diplomacy. The chapter proceeds in fi ve stages. The fi rst section delineates the concept of Science diplomacy. The second considers

27 citations

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01 Feb 2015
TL;DR: Turekian et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the role of science communication in science diplomacy and used science co-operation to improve relations between countries, and proposed a model for international science cooperation.
Abstract: Introduction: Entering a New Era of Science Diplomacy (Vaughan Turekian) Diplomacy for Science - Facilitating International Science Co-operation: Advancing Science Diplomacy with Muslim-majority Nations Diplomacy (Cathleen Campbell) Globalization, Science Diplomacy and the Media: WikiLeaks, "Cablegate" and the Implications for International Relations (Daryl Copeland) An American Perspective on Science Diplomacy (David Huebner) Antarctic Science: A Model for International Co-operation (Gary Wilson) Global Health Research Diplomacy (Edison Liu) Science in Diplomacy - Informing Foreign Policy Objectives with Scientific Advice: International Collaboration on Climate Change, Research, and Science Diplomacy (Borjiginte Ailikun) The Clash of Corporations and the Irrelevance of World Order: The Diplomacy Gap in the Oil and Mining Sectors (Sefton Darby) The Role of Science Communication in Science Diplomacy (Joan Leach) Science for Diplomacy - Using Science Co-operation to Improve Relations between Countries: Triangulating Science, Security and Society: Power and Ethics in International Affairs (Jeffrey Boutwell) Diplomacy and Trade: A View from a Small OECD Agricultural Economy (Stephen Goldson) Science Diplomacy and the Australian - New Zealand Efforts to Host SKA (Brian Boyle) Conclusion: Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn? (Lloyd Davis and Robert G Patman).

25 citations

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26 Feb 2010
TL;DR: The authors argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.
Abstract: This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks. * 15 illustrations

15 citations

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TL;DR: This article explored the tension between the role of religious language as a domestic legitimizing device for the Bush administration and its adverse impact on Washington's foreign policy image, and argued that political fundamentalism after 9/11 has become a major obstacle to effectively addressing the challenge of international terrorism.
Abstract: This article explores the tension between the role of religious language as a domestic legitimising device for the Bush administration and its adverse impact on Washington's foreign policy image. It argues that President Bush's political fundamentalism after 9/11 has become a major obstacle to effectively addressing the challenge of international terrorism. It examines the interface between religion and the traditional idea of US exceptionalism, considers the political rise of the Christian right in American politics since the 1970s, shows how 9/11 served as a transformative event in the emergence of political fundamentalism in the White House and explores the impact of the construction of President Bush's ‘war on terror’ policies on the domestic and international environments. The conclusion acknowledges a substantial gulf between the domestic and international responses to President Bush's brand of political fundamentalism, but concedes that these differences have been narrowing over time.

11 citations

01 Jan 2014

10 citations


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TL;DR: This article found that natural disasters significantly increase the risk of violent civil conflict both in the short and medium term, specifically in low and middle-income countries that have intermediate to high levels of inequality, mixed political regimes, and sluggish economic growth.
Abstract: Does the occurrence of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami, flood, hurricane, epidemic, heat wave, and/or plague increase the risk of violent civil conflict in a society? This study uses available data for 187 political units for the period 1950–2000 to systematically explore this question that has received remarkably little attention in the voluminous literature on civil war. We find that natural disasters significantly increase the risk of violent civil conflict both in the short and medium term, specifically in low- and middle-income countries that have intermediate to high levels of inequality, mixed political regimes, and sluggish economic growth. Rapid-onset disasters related to geology and climate pose the highest overall risk, but different dynamics apply to minor as compared to major conflicts. The findings are robust in terms of the use of different dependent and independent variables, and a variety of model specifications. Given the likelihood that rapid climate change will increase the incidence of some types of natural disasters, more attention should be given to mitigating the social and political risks posed by these cataclysmic events.

343 citations

01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Fukuyama's seminal work "The End of History and the Last Man" as discussed by the authors was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like, outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, and speculated what was going to come next.
Abstract: 20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

235 citations

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TL;DR: Curtin, Maureen F., and Cushman as mentioned in this paper, discuss the influence of free speech in the Mosaic of Mary McCarthy's Postmodern Affinities, in the context of Irish Revolutionary.
Abstract: “... friendship between the[m]... and an exchange... published in... Partisan Review...” Craven, Alice Mikal, William E. Dow, Yoko Nakamura, editors, Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020). Cronin, Sean, James Connolly: Irish Revolutionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2020). Connolly spent some years in the U.S. Crowe, David, Hemmingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris: The Art of Resistance, (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2020). Curtin, Maureen F., “Drag and the Aesthetics of Free Speech in the Mosaic of Mary McCarthy’s Postmodern Affinities,” Women’s Studies 49, no. 4 (2020), 374–90. Cushman, Barry, “The Judicial Reforms of 1937,” William & Mary Law Review 61, no. 4 (2020), 995–1051. Return to the beginning of the Biographical & Individuals-Based Works section. Return to the beginning of the Bibliography.

159 citations

01 Dec 2009

95 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual link between international crises such as the one following September 11, 2001, and processes of identity construction through foreign policy is proposed, where crisis and identity construction are conceptualized as constant political phenomena.
Abstract: The paper aims to shed light on the conceptual link between international crises such as the one following September 11, 2001, and processes of identity construction through foreign policy. Crisis and identity construction are conceptualized as constant political phenomena. The political process is constituted by meaningful acts of social agents, and can thus only be grasped by analyzing meaning. Meaning is transmitted by language. Meaningful language is never reducible to individual speakers; it is a social act. The sum of articulatory practices in a social field is called discourse. Linking Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with the theory of hegemony developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, I will be able to show how hegemonic discourses serve as the nexus between the discursive construction of crises and identity change. A number of problems will be acknowledged when linking these two strands of thinking, as CDA and Laclauian theory work with tentatively different conceptions of discourse. The construction of the “war on terror” by the Bush administration between September 2001 and May 2003 is used as a case to illustrate the theoretical argument.

90 citations