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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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Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power
TL;DR: The question "What causes alignment?" is a central issue in debates on American foreign policy, and the choices that are made often turn on which hypotheses of alliance formation are endorsed as mentioned in this paper.
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Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference
TL;DR: For instance, King's "Unifying Political Methodology" as discussed by the authors is an introduction to the likelihood theory of statistical inference and an evangelist's call for us to change our ways of doing political methodology.
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The Capitalist Peace
TL;DR: In this article, a contrarian account based on liberal political economy is proposed to explain why democracies are less conflict prone, if only with other democracies, and the effect of regime type in standard statistical tests of democratic peace.
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Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?: Three Models in Search of a Bomb
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the consensus view, focusing on national security considerations as the cause of proliferation, is dangerously inadequate because nuclear weapons programs also serve other, more parochial and less obvious objectives.
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Socialization and hegemonic power
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop the notion of socialization in the international system and examine three hypotheses about the conditions under which it occurs and can function effectively as a source of power.
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Democracy in America.
Donald J. Pierce,Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville,Phillips Bradley,Harold J. Laski +3 more
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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.