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Theory of International Politics
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.read more
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Democracy and Military Effectiveness A Deeper Look
Stephen Biddle,Stephen B. Long +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that superior human capital, harmonious civil-military relations, and Western cultural background are largely responsible for the success of democracies in war, and that these traits correlate positively with democracy.
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Between Celebration and Despair: Constructive Suggestions for Future International Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline what they perceive to be the positive and destructive features of "dissident" perspectives and propose a series of constructive guidelines for progress in theory that involve rejection of various "mainstream" approaches including realism.
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Institutional Balancing and International Relations Theory: Economic Interdependence and Balance of Power Strategies in Southeast Asia:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate elements of neorealist and neoliberal theories with a model of institutional balancing that identifies the conditions under which this form of soft balancing occurs, and integrate the two theories into a single model.
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Explaining the non-proliferation regime: anomalies for contemporary international relations theory
TL;DR: This paper argued that the system of international cooperation on non-proliferation does constitute a regime, but that such a regime presents a serious anomaly for contemporary theory and concluded that power and egoistic self-interest are inadequate to account for the regime's formation and maintenance.
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The Effects of Political Similarity on the Onset of Militarized Disputes, 1816-1985:
TL;DR: The authors used a hazard model that evaluates the risk that peace ends with the onset of a militarized dispute for all dyads in the international system from 1816 to 1985, and found strong support for the hypothesis, even when they control for the pacifying effects of similar democratic states and exclude data from...
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Democracy in America.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Introduction to cybernetics
TL;DR: This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, Theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theoryof image recognition, etc.