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How I started to like Swefieh...
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To all Jordanian men...
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A Message to a Wiser One...
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Posted: February 5th, 2007, 10:03am UTC
Rousseau and Marx in Comparative Perspective Introduction
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Max shared a hesitation about the liberal project articulated in part by John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. But ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2006, 12:23pm UTC
Bridging the Ancient and Modern: Thoughts on Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke
Introduction
Plato and Aristotle’s concerns in The Republic and Politics was understanding virtue and ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2006, 12:15pm UTC
The First Conservative: Contrasting Plato and Aristotle
Introduction
Plato and Aristotle are our oldest political thinkers. Surprisingly, the same debates that guided Plato and Aristotle’s ...
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Posted: June 15th, 2006, 5:48am UTC
Do Individuals Matter?: Great Men, Individual Interaction and Ideas in IR Theory
Introduction
International Relations theory, in general, has ignored the role individual actors play ...
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Posted: April 5th, 2006, 2:24pm UTC
G. John Ikenberry’s After Victory: Order and Power in International Politics
Introduction
The extent to which international institutions ‘matter’ in world politics has been a ...
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Posted: March 30th, 2006, 5:04am UTC
Ruggie, John G. “Reconstituting the Global Public Domain – Issues, Actors and Practices” 2004.
“My aim in this article is to provide a more comprehensive set of ...
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Posted: March 30th, 2006, 4:55am UTC
Randall Stone’s Lending Credibility: A Review and Critique
Introduction
The extent to which the IMF is a benefit or a detriment to countries trying to develop is one ...
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Posted: March 19th, 2006, 4:36am UTC
Have Europeanization and globalization eroded the autonomy of the state as a political unit?
Introduction
The political unit known as the state has received increased ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 7:12am UTC
Gilpin, Robert “Global Political Economy.” 2001
“Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been the most outstanding characteristic of international economic affairs and, to a ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 6:27am UTC
What Should We Expect?: Theorizing Towards a Normative IR Theory
Introduction
I might be what E.H. Carr would have called a “utopian”. Not because I ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 6:23am UTC
Neoliberal Institutionalism: A Summary and Critique Introduction
In the study of international relations, the concept of power has been given preeminence. E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau and Kenneth Waltz argued ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 6:17am UTC
Poststructuralism in IR: an Assessment and Critique
Introduction
Much of international relations theory is centered on debates of realism and liberalism and its many variants. These theories explained ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 6:13am UTC
Introduction
Nationalist sentiment in the past decade became prominent in the Yugoslavian wars, Rwandan genocide, Quebec separatism, and Chechnya rebellion. Trouble in these regions proved the profound impact nationalism ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 6:06am UTC
Bringing Legitimacy Back In: An Analysis of Institutionalized Myth Introduction
Political science as a discipline has been critiqued for its seeming inability to produce clear conclusions on the most ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 5:56am UTC
Introduction
Although many political scientists wear their methodological badge on their sleeve, others are less obvious and more eclectic in their approach. While the former might be said of ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 1:13pm UTC
Me and my wife Joanna in New York ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 1:00pm UTC
Against Empiricism: The ‘Enduring Nature’ of the Power Relationship
Introduction
The power debate dominated political science for much of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Coinciding with this debate ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:55am UTC
As the Discipline Turns: A Comparison of the Michigan and Downs’ Models Introduction
Two methodologies in political science altered the landscape of the discipline. The “behavioral revolution” — a ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:52am UTC
Through Gramsci’s Eyes: Civil Society and the Creation of the Marxist State Introduction
One of the dominant political questions of the early 20th century for political scientists was determining ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:40am UTC
Interest-based Regime Theory in International Relations
Introduction
Over the last twenty-five years, IR has studied more closely issues of regime formation and regime change in international politics. This ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:36am UTC
Compliance and Legitimacy: Looking Back at Thomas Franck’s The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations
Introduction
The concept of legitimacy has been understudied in international relations theory, and moreover, ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:33am UTC
Harry Eckstein’s “Congruence Theory Explained”:
Basic Hypothesis:
H1: Governments perform well to the extent that their authority patterns are congruent with the authority patterns of ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:23am UTC
Is There Anything New About Neoconservatism? Conservatism and Neoconservatism in Comparative Perspective Introduction
With the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and his reelection in 2004, some have ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2006, 10:19am UTC
The American Way: the Power of Liberalism in American Political Development
Introduction
The political traditions of liberalism, republicanism and ascriptivism have been used to explain, in various ways, ...