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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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When Right Makes Might: How Prussia Overturned the European Balance of Power
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Prussia's legitimation strategies undermined balancing coalitions through three mechanisms: by signaling constraint, laying rhetorical traps, and increasing ontological security.
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Does International Law Promote the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes? Evidence from the Study of Territorial Conflicts since 1945
TL;DR: In this article, the role of international law in the resolution of territorial disputes from 1945 to 2000 is discussed. But the authors focus on three outcomes of interest: when states choose to revise the territorial status quo through negotiations instead of force, when are states able to reach a final settlement, and when states prefer a process of legal dispute resolution (i.e., adjudication or arbitration) to bilateral negotiations.
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The Physical Modelling of Human Social Systems
TL;DR: It is shown, with examples ranging from pedestrian dynamics to social choice theory, economics, demography, and the formation of businesses and alliances, that modelling the behaviour of individuals and social and political institutions according to the viewpoint of statistical physics does seem capable of capturing some of the important features of social systems.
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Toward a Network Theory of Alliance Formation
TL;DR: The proposed network-based theory of alliance formation argues that closed triangles in the alliance network produce synergy effects in which state-level utility is greater than the sum of its dyadic parts.
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Scarcity and Cooperation Along International Rivers
TL;DR: In this article, an inverted U-shaped curve was suggested for the relationship between water scarcity and cooperation, and it was shown that formal coordination in the form of an international water treaty is most likely to ensue at levels of moderate (or relative) scarcity.
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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.