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The Canon and the Cannon: A Review Essay@@@Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism and Socialism.
John M. Owen,Michael W. Doyle +1 more
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The authors argue that history has provided the theoretical tools to meet modern challenges, and that great political minds of the past can still guide modern politicians through the confusion of current events, and recommend that they be applied to today's fundamental international dilemmas.Abstract:
He explores their enduring theories, and recommends that they be applied to today's fundamental international dilemmas. Although no one school has all the answers, this analysis maintains that history has provided the theoretical tools to meet modern challenges, and that great political minds of the past can still guide modern politicians through the confusion of current events.read more
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International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
TL;DR: The authors argue that norms evolve in a three-stage "life cycle" of emergence, cascades, and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics.
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The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders
James G. March,Johan P. Olsen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the tendency of students of international political order to emphasize efficient histories and consequential bases for action leads them to underestimate the significance of rule-and identity-based action and inefficient histories.
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The Stability of a Unipolar World
TL;DR: In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the sole surviving superpower as mentioned in this paper, and a new grand strategy was proposed to preserve unipolarity by preventing the emergence of a global rival.
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Is Anybody Still a Realist
TL;DR: Realism, the oldest and most prominent theoretical paradigm in international relations, is in trouble as discussed by the authors, and the problem is not lack of interest, but the lack of empirical support for simple realist predictions, such as recurrent balancing; or the absence of plausible realist explanations of certain salient phenomena.
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A Cultural Theory of International Relations
TL;DR: In this article, the spirit and its expression in the ancient world, from Sun King to Revolution, and World War II to the present day, are discussed, and a survey of the results is presented.