Harvey Starr : pioneer in the study of conflict processes and international relations / / Harvey Starr

• Autore: Starr Harvey
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.510924
• Soggetto topico: Political scientists - United States; Political science - History
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I On Harvey Starr -- 1 Getting from Then to Now: A Personal Intellectual Autobiography -- 1.1 Some Early Autobiographical Context -- 1.2 The Beginnings of an Intellectual Autobiography -- 1.3 The Foundations for The Intellectual Journey: SUNY Buffalo -- 1.4 Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Yale -- 1.4.1 Yale: Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Process -- 1.4.2 Bruce Russett: Initial Interactions and Mentoring -- 1.4.3 The Dissertation -- 1.5 Scotland and After -- 1.6 Scholarship: Career Themes -- 1.6.1 Conflict: Consequences and Processes -- 1.6.2 Opportunity and Willingness as Central to a Scholarly Agenda -- 1.6.3 O/W and My Major Scholarly Projects -- 1.6.3.1 World Politics: The Menu for Choice -- 1.6.3.2 Inquiry, Logic and International Politics [ILIP] -- 1.6.3.3 Two-Level Security Management Project -- 1.6.3.4 GIS Project on Reconceptualizing the Nature of Borders -- 1.6.3.5 Democracy and the Democratic Peace -- 1.6.3.6 Decision-Making, Cognitive Behaviorism, and Willingness: The Kissinger Project -- 1.6.4 An Overview of My Research Process -- 1.7 Concluding Thoughts -- 1.7.1 "I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends" -- 1.7.2 Back to Intellectual Autobiography and Trajectories -- References -- 2 A Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Harvey Starr -- 2.1 Books -- 2.2 Journal Articles -- 2.3 Book Chapters -- Part II Texts by Harvey Starr -- 3 Cumulation from Proper Specification: Theory, Logic, Research Design, and 'Nice' Laws -- Abstract -- 3.1 Applying the Research Triad: Theory, Nice Laws, and Substitutability -- 3.2 Illustrations with Ray's Guidelines -- References -- 4 Opportunity, Willingness and the Diffusion of War, 1816-1965 -- 4.1 Opportunity and Willingness in the Diffusion of War -- 4.2 Research Design and Data Generation -- 4.3 Findings. ; 4.4 Do Opportunity and Willingness Influence War Diffusion? -- 4.5 How Much Do the Variables Contribute to War Diffusion? -- 4.6 A Problem? -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Democratic Dominoes: Diffusion Approaches to the Spread of Democracy in the International System -- 5.1 Democracy, Dominoes, and Diffusion -- 5.2 Governmental Transitions -- 5.3 Diffusion Approaches to Governmental Changes -- 5.4 Neighbor Effects and the Interaction Opportunity Model -- 5.5 Data and Descriptives -- 5.6 Analysis and Design: Global Effects -- 5.6.1 Poisson Analyses -- 5.7 Global Trends Toward Democracy -- 5.8 Regional Effects -- 5.9 Bordering Governmental Transitions: Neighbor Effects -- 5.10 Neighbor Effects: A First Cut -- 5.11 Neighbor Effects: A Second Cut -- 5.12 Conclusion -- References -- 6 On Geopolitics: Spaces and Places -- 6.1 Context: Time, Space, and Determinism -- 6.2 Context: Space and Spatiality -- 6.3 Relative Spaces -- 6.4 To Conclude -- References -- 7 Opportunity, Willingness and Geographic Information Systems: Reconceptualizing Borders in International Relations -- Abstract -- 7.1 Geopolitics, Borders and IR: A Brief Introduction -- 7.2 Conceptualizing (and Re-conceptualizing) Borders -- 7.3 Methodology: ARC/INFO and the Conceptualization-Operationalization of Borders -- 7.3.1 Opportunity for Interaction (Ease of Interaction) -- 7.3.2 Salience (Willingness) -- 7.3.3 A New Dataset on the 'Nature' of Borders -- 7.4 The Scientific Utility of a GIS-Generated Border Data Base -- 7.4.1 Revisiting IR Hypotheses with More Fully Specified Borders -- 7.4.2 Revisiting Borders as Part of the War Puzzle -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Democracy and Integration: Why Democracies Don't Fight Each Other -- 8.1 What Is to Be Explained? -- 8.2 The Confusion -- 8.3 Integration: Security Communities and the Democratic Peace. ; 8.4 What Does Democracy Mean? -- 8.4.1 Democracy and Transparency -- 8.4.2 Lesser Forms of Conflict -- 8.5 Conclusion: Democracy and Integration -- References -- 9 The Kissinger Years: Studying Individuals and Foreign Policy -- 9.1 Kissinger, His Memoirs, and the Kissinger Industry -- 9.2 The Problem of Access -- 9.3 Psychological Approaches to the Study of Kissinger -- 9.4 Memoirs, Access, and Confidence: Some Specific Areas of Comparison -- 9.5 Kissinger and Richard M. Nixon: Nixon the Individual/Nixon the Statesman -- 9.6 Kissinger, Nixon, and the 'Obstacle' of the Bureaucracy -- 9.7 Dealing with the Soviet Union -- 9.8 Conclusion -- References -- About the University of South Carolina -- University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science.
• Titolo autorizzato: Harvey Starr
• ISBN: 3-030-78907-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502662403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice