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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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The Preventive Use of Force: A Cosmopolitan Institutional Proposal
Allen Buchanan,Robert O. Keohane +1 more
TL;DR: This essay proposes a scheme that would make those promoting and those rejecting the preventive use of force more accountable, and contains the following crucial features: States proposing preventive war are required to enter into a contract with a diverse body of states as a condition for authorization of their actions.
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Political Culture and State Behavior: Why Germany Confounds Neorealism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the failure of neorealism to predict German security policy after unification and assess the various cultural approaches used in recent years to explain state behavior, and discuss the important differences that mark them and identify the reasons for the greater utility of political culture.
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Reinvigorating the Study of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Toward a Constructivist Approach
TL;DR: For many years, the study of foreign policy analysis (FPA) has been a kind of free-floating enterprise, logically unconnected to the main theories of international relations as discussed by the authors.
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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe: List of Wars Involving Great Powers in Early Modern Europe (1495–1815)
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Testing Theories of Alliance Formation: The Case of Southwest Asia
TL;DR: The balance-of-threat theory as mentioned in this paper predicts that states balance against the most threatening state, rather than the most powerful, which is an important refinement of structural balance of power theory.
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