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In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History
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The article was published on 2018-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Humanity & Enlightenment.read more
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From Mercenary to Citizen Armies: Explaining Change in the Practice of War
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the politics behind the new reliance on citizen armies and argue that material and ideational turmoil provided important antecedent conditions for change, and conclude that the interaction between domestic politics and path dependency provides a promising source of hypotheses for explaining the conditions under which new ways of war emerge and spread.
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Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
TL;DR: In this paper, Kolla traces how French revolutionary diplomats and leaders gradually applied principles derived from new domestic political philosophy and law to the international stage, and how these principles opened up new justifications for aggressive conquest, and this history foreshadowed some of the most controversial questions in international relations.
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The Politics of Political Science: "Value-free" Theory and the Wolin-Strauss Dust-Up of 1963
TL;DR: The relationship between political theory and political science has been fraught with ambiguity and weighed down by epistemological tensions in a manner that suggests an old and extremely prickly marriage as discussed by the authors.
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Africa Between the Ages
TL;DR: The second largest continent in the world, Africa, is the most populous continent and has the largest number of states represented at the United Nations as discussed by the authors, which has advantages and disadvantages for Africans.
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The Politics of Enlightenment: From Peter Gay to Jonathan Israel
TL;DR: According to the textbook version of history, the Enlightenment played a crucial role in the creation of the modern, liberal democracies of the West as mentioned in this paper. Yet, as this paper shows, it continues to survive in postwar history, in particular in the Anglophone world.