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Erratum to the front cover of International Studies Quarterly 51:1 (March 2007)

Erratum to the front cover of International Studies Quarterly 51:1 (March 2007)

Back to the Future? Behavioral IR as a Case of Arrested Development

Alex Mintz calls in his essay in this Forum for recognizing “Behavioral IR” as a subfield in the study of IR. He rests his case on the existence of “numerous anomalies from the traditional analytic, rational, expected utility model of choice” in research in political science and IR. A combination of favorable methodological developments and historical conditions has combined to create a bright future for Behavioral IR as a subfield. If this future promise is fulfilled, then Behavioral IR as a subfield may come to focus on the dyad as a micro-structural unit of analysis with models of bounded strategic rationality informed by content analyses of the beliefs and other psychological characteristics of the leaders of these dyads (Herrmann and Fischerkeller 1995; Lake and Powell 1999; Wendt 1999; Walker 2004). Some will point out no doubt that Behavioral IR has existed since the 1960s with its members publishing in outlets such as the Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Interactions, Journal of Peace Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science , and International Studies Quarterly . What is new is the opportunity to increase the explained variance in Behavioral IR studies by including the explicit measurement and analysis of psychological characteristics of political leaders in the contextual models tested in this literature. It is now cost effective to combine within a single research design the independent variables from contextual models and the psychological characteristics of leaders to achieve more robust results (Schafer 2000; Walker 2000; Post 2005; Walker and Schafer 2006). The gap between rational choice models and empirical studies of decision making may also shrink as a result of the use of the new methodological tools that are available for gathering information about individual decision makers. The “world in their minds” has now …

Gender and Journal Authorship in Eight Prestigious Political Science Journals

How well are women authors represented in the most-recognized journals in political science? To what degree does the presence of women authors mirror women's presence in the discipline? Although a few studies have sought to provide data on the presence of women authors in political science journals (Young 1995; Kelly et al. 1994), more recent work on the visibility of women in the discipline has focused on gender and authorship of edited volumes (Mathews and Andersen 2001), on the participation of women in the APSA annual meetings (e.g., Gruberg 2006; 2004), and on the status of women in the discipline (Sarkees and McGlen 1992; 1999; Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession 2001). All are useful endeavors. This paper analyzes the presence of women authors in six volume years (1999–2004) of eight prestigious political science journals—American Political Science Review (APSR), American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Journal of Politics (JOP), World Politics (WP), International Organization (IO), Comparative Politics (CP), Comparative Political Studies (CPS), and International Studies Quarterly (ISQ).

ISQ Turns Fifty

This issue marks the beginning of the second half-century of publication of International Studies Quarterly . The idea to create a journal to inform international studies educators arose at a meeting of scholars, convened at the University of Iowa by Vernon Van Dyke in the summer of 1955. 1 First published in 1957 at Wayne State University under the name Background , in its first incarnation it was a digest, consisting mainly of summaries of recent scholarly research. A key moment in the history of the journal occurred five years later, when Background was brought into the fold of the then recently formed International Studies Association (ISA). The ISA has been its organizational sponsor ever since. The name of the journal was changed to International Studies Quarterly in 1967, when it also assumed its current form as an outlet for the best original scholarship of interest to the international studies discipline. Vernon Van Dyke was the president of ISA at that time, and editorship of the journal moved from Charles McClelland, then of the University of Southern California, to Fred A. Sondermann of The Colorado College. Among the authors in the first issue of the new International Studies Quarterly were Irving Louis Horowitz, William R. Caspary, and Bruce M. Russett. Clearly much has changed in world politics and in the international studies community since the birth …

Education Professionals and the Construction of Human Rights Education

The UN Decade for Human Rights Education began in 1995, and since that time many nations have reported activities and programs in line with the decade (United Nations 1998; UNHCHR 2005). While 1995 was a pivotal year in the history of human rights education, the curricular movement neither began nor ended with the UN Decade. Human rights education has been developing for several decades, and efforts to introduce human rights into formal school curricula have included diverse and ongoing activities by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and dedicated individuals throughout the world. Beyond advocating for human rights education in schools, the actors involved in promoting human rights education also have been involved in creating and developing a curricular movement. This article builds on previous comparative education research by analyzing the current discourse surrounding this emerging education model— human rights education. The first section provides a brief history of human rights education in formal education. The second section reviews research on international reforms, emphasizing analyses of processes in global diffusion and variation at national or local levels. Closely related, the third section discusses linkages and relational and associational processes that spread ideas and construct new models such as human rights education. The fourth section focuses on the current state of human rights education, ex-

Feminists Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin, 1945; Yugoslavia, 1992–1993

Previous articleNext article No AccessFeminists Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin, 1945; Yugoslavia, 1992–1993Pascale R. BosPascale R. BosDepartment of Germanic StudiesUniversity of Texas at Austin Search for more articles by this author Department of Germanic StudiesUniversity of Texas at AustinPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 31, Number 4Summer 2006 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/505230 Views: 451Total views on this site Citations: 14Citations are reported from Crossref © 2006 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kathleen Zeidler The End of Silencing? Dealing with Sexualized Violence in the Context of the Kosovo Conflict (1998/99–2019), Comparative Southeast European Studies 70, no.22 (Jul 2022): 310–336.https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0015Michelle Benson, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?, Journal of Conflict Resolution 64, no.11 (May 2019): 167–198.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002719841125Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż The Truth (?) of Wartime Rape: Memory, Form, and Meaning in Helke Sander’s Liberators Take Liberties and Wojciech Tochman’s Today We’re Going to Draw Death, Violence Against Women 25, no.1313 (Sep 2019): 1594–1612.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869546Josephine DeCarlo Female Crimes Against Humanity, (Aug 2019): 1–7.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118929803.ewac0120Katherine Stone The mass rapes of 1945 in contemporary memory culture: The (gender) politics of metaphor and metonymy, European Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no.66 (Jul 2017): 707–723.https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417718207Elisabeth Krimmer German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust, 5 (Aug 2018).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563758Maria Eriksson Baaz, Maria Stern , International Feminist Journal of Politics 20, no.33 ( 2018): 295.https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2018.1459197Janine Natalya Clark Untangling Rape Causation and the Importance of the Micro Level: Elucidating the Use of Mass Rape during the Bosnian War, Ethnopolitics 16, no.44 (Apr 2016): 388–410.https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2016.1165919Sara Meger The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security, International Studies Quarterly 60, no.11 (Feb 2016): 149–159.https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqw003Elisabeth Krimmer Philomela's Legacy: Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading, The German Quarterly 88, no.11 (Feb 2015): 82–103.https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.10227K. H Adler Indigènes after Indigènes : post-war France and its North African troops, European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire 20, no.33 (Jun 2013): 463–478.https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2013.770826S. B. Rottmann, M. M. Ferree Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 15, no.44 (Dec 2008): 481–513.https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxn017Niamh Reilly Seeking gender justice in post-conflict transitions: towards a transformative women’s human rights approach, International Journal of Law in Context 3, no.22 (Sep 2007): 155–172.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552307002054Dagmar Herzog Partnerships and practices 1980???2010, (): 176–217.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511997075.006

Epistemic Partiality in Friendship

Analytic moral philosophers have been taking a renewed interest in friendship in recent years. They have been especially liable to consider friendship in connection with debates over partiality and impartiality in ethics. Many important styles of ethical theory hold up impartiality and equal treatment—under one or another interpretation—as central moral concepts and ideals. Yet friendship and other close relations between persons seem to involve partiality and differential treatment. We care more about what befalls our friends than about what happens to strangers, and we are more motivated to advance our friends’ interests than those of strangers. We seem even to have special responsibilities toward our friends which we don’t have toward strangers. If friendship necessarily involves such partiality, then there is a tension, at least, between the constitutive elements and dispositions of friendship and those of morality: they seem to pull in opposite directions. Contemporary moral theorists have responded to this tension in a variety of ways. Some have sought to bring the apparent partiality of friendship under the wing of a more fundamental impartiality, thus reconciling friendship and the moral. Others have insisted on the primacy of friendship, and partiality, over impartial moral conceptions—

Promise and Performance: An Evaluation of Journals in International Relations

What kind of international relations research gets published in the field’s most recognized journals? Who are its authors? This study investigates the subject matter, methodology, and origin of recent research published in top international relations journals, building on earlier work that has investigated the contents of journals. This study investigates the contents of three international relations journals—International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, and World Politics— which have been consistently ranked as the top three journals in international relations. Data are for the ten most recent completed volume years, 1995–2004. This study finds that international relations scholarship in these three journals focuses on a relatively narrow range of subjects and is produced by a rather homogeneous group of scholars.

Coral Bell and the classical realist tradition

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The policy statement of International Studies Quarterly, each issue. 2. For her own comments on her ‘marked resistance to the use of the word “theory”’, see Bell (1989 Bell Coral , 1989 . ‘Journey with Alternative Maps’ , in Kruzel , Joseph and Rosenau , James N. (eds) , Journeys through World Politics: Autobiographical Reflections of Thirty-four Academic Travelers ( Lexington, MA : Lexington Books ), pp. 339 – 50 . [Google Scholar]: 347–8). For Wight's scepticism, see Wight (1966 Wight , Martin , 1966 . ‘Why is there no International Theory?’ , in Butterfield , Herbert and Wight , Martin (eds) , Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics ( London : George Allen & Unwin ), pp. 17 – 34 . [Google Scholar]). 3. On Australia, see for example, Bell (1993 Bell Coral , 1993 . ‘Introduction’ , in Bell , Coral , Dependent Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy , 3rd edn ( St Leonards : Allen & Unwin ). [Google Scholar]: 3–4).

Dissolving Distance: Technology, Space, and Empire in British Political Thought, 1770–1900

Next article No AccessDissolving Distance: Technology, Space, and Empire in British Political Thought, 1770–1900*Duncan S. A. Bell Duncan S. A. BellChrist’s College, Cambridge University Search for more articles by this author Christ’s College, Cambridge UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 77, Number 3September 2005 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/497716 Views: 465Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref ©2005 by The University of Chicago. PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Duncan Bell, David Armitage, Jessica Blatt, Desmond Jagmohan, Fabian Hilfrich, Menaka Philips Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. 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ARTICLE WITHDRAWN From a Punitive to a Bargaining Model of Sanctions: Lessons from Iraq

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The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia

The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia

Politics or markets? The determinants of cross‐border financial integration in the NAFTA and the EU

One of the most striking political developments of the past two decades has been the heightened interest at both a practical and theoretical level in new institutional arrangements that may be driv...

(Mis)constructing the Third World? Constructivist analysis of norm diffusion

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes This review discusses ‘mainstream’ constructivism as distinct from feminist constructivism and other critical variants. See E Adler, ‘Seizing the middle ground: constructivism in world politics,’ European Journal of International Relations, 3 (3), 1997, p 334. H Gould, ‘What is at stake in the agent–structure debate?’, in V Kubalkova et al (eds), International Relations in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: ME Sharpe, 1998, p 81. S Whitworth, Feminism and International Relations: Towards a Political Economy of Gender in Interstate and Non‐Governmental Institutions, New York: St Martin's Press, 1994, p 67. J Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization, New York: Routledge, 1998, p 4. J Sterling‐Folker notes that pre‐existing state motivations to adopt new norms, such as the desire for legitimacy, are actually exogenous interests smuggled in on the sly. Sterling‐Folker, ‘Competing paradigms or birds of a feather? Constructivism and neoliberal institutionalism compared’, International Studies Quarterly, 40, 2000, p 108. A Florini, ‘The evolution of international norms’, International Studies Quarterly, 40, 1996, p 377. usaid, ‘A history of foreign assistance’, no date, at http://www.usaid.gov/about/usaidhist.html, accessed 22 November 2002. Whitworth, Feminism and International Relations, p 67. This debate is far from ‘sterile’—indeed, as it has raged within ngo fora at UN Women and Population Conferences during the past two decades, the debate has resulted in greater interest in, if not full implementation of, grassroots organising and client‐driven development policy among some Northern ngos. Scholte notes that ‘fewer than 15 per cent of the ngos with consultative status at the UN are based in the so‐called South’. JA Scholte, ‘The globalization of world politics’, in J Baylis & S Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, p 30. JT Checkel, ‘Norms, institutions, and national identity in contemporary Europe’, International Studies Quarterly, 43, 1999, pp 89–91. JT Checkel, ‘International norms and domestic politics: bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide’, European Journal of International Relations, 3 (4), 1997, p 483. Ibid, pp 103, 105. Ibid, p 108. T Risse, ‘Constructivism and international institutions: toward conversations across paradigms’, in I Katznelson & HV Milner (eds), Political Science: State of the Discipline, New York: WW Norton, 2002, p 620. According to Risse, an additional division of labour ‘between the two institutionalisms could emerge. Constructivists would be in charge of explaining actors’ preferences, while rationalist approaches would explain how agents act on the basis of these preferences'. Risse, ‘Constructivism and international institutions’, p 609. JT Checkel, ‘Review of the power of human rights’, Comparative Political Studies, 33 (10), 2000, pp 1339–1340. Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura K Landolt Laura K Landolt is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA. Email: landolt@ email.arizona.edu. Laura K Landolt is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA. Email: landolt@ email.arizona.edu.

Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia

Previous articleNext article No AccessGlobal Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in RussiaJulie HemmentJulie HemmentDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for more articles by this author Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Massachusetts, AmherstPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 29, Number 3Spring 2004 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/381104 Views: 418Total views on this site Citations: 35Citations are reported from Crossref © 2004 by The University of Chicago. 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Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Introduction More than a decade ago, the World Bank argued that “underlying the litany of Africa’s development problems is a crisis of governance.” Poor quality institutions, weak rule of law, an absence of accountability, tight controls over information, and high levels of corruption still characterize many African states today. Aid levels have been reduced in many parts of Africa during the past decade. Yet in many of the countries with poor governance records, aid continues to contribute a very high percentage of government budgets. This article explores the institutional impact of these high levels of aid and the way that large amounts of aid are delivered. There are many reasons why governance is poor in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Colonialism did little to develop strong, indigenously rooted institutions that could tackle the development demands of modern states. Economic crisis and unsustainable debt, civil wars, and political instability have all taken their toll over the past 2 decades and more. It is difficult to separate the impact of these problems from the possible impact of foreign aid, which is often high in countries that suffer from precisely these problems. Theory provides conflicting guidance here. On the one hand, aid can release governments from binding revenue constraints, enabling them to strengthen domestic institutions and pay higher salaries to civil servants. Aid can provide training and technical assistance to build legal systems and accounting offices. In many countries, aid personnel (sometimes expatriate) manage important government programs, and the infusion of resources and technical assistance can give an important boost to the efficiency and effectiveness of governance, if only in a partial sense. Yet despite these likely benefits, it is also possible that, continued over

Private Pain/Public Peace: Women’s Rights as Human Rights and Amnesty International’s Report on Violence against Women

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Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory. Edited by Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 242p. $65.00.

Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory, edited by Kevin Dunn and Timothy Shaw, offers a timely reflection on the content and nuance of international relations theory in an era of “the new inequality” (Craig Murphy, “Political Consequences of the New Inequality,” International Studies Quarterly 45 [September 2001]: 347–56). The central question posed by the authors is: How international is international relations theory? In the authors' view, not very much. As a consequence, their objective in the volume is “to replace the dominant/dominating denotative reading of the IR text with a more pluralist connotative reading” (p. 8; my emphasis). Drawing on African experiences in the discipline of international relations, all 13 chapters of this engaging volume take aim at various manifestations of the Eurocentricity and “provincialism” of international relations theory then and now. Very early in the volume, Dunn sets the stage for a deliberate and systematic engagement with the discipline for its relegation of Africa to the footnote of international relations theory (p. 4).

Missile defense: More may be better—for China

Dr. Wade L. Huntley is a visiting fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His publications on a variety of Asian and global security issues include articles in The Nonproliferation Review, Asian Survey, International Studies Quarterly, and Millennium: Journal of International Affairs. Dr. Huntley, formerly Director of the Peace and Security Program at the Nautilus Institute, is currently researching long-term Asian implications of recent U.S. strategic policy initiatives.

Institutional Determinants of the Impact ofCommunity‐Based Water Services:Evidence from Sri Lanka and India

The objective of this article is to start unravelling that question by analyzing selected institutional determinants of the impact and performance of community-based water services. Using quantitative and qualitative data from 1088 rural households and 50 water committees this study investigates how service rules and practices social capital and governmental and nongovernmental organization institutions affect the impact and performance of services supported by three projects in Sri Lanka and India that are financed by the World Bank. In this article we focus on measuring and econometrically analyzing selected aspects of project design and implementation such as the importance of community participation in service design and decision making. This article is also one of the first to measure and econometrically analyze the effect of social capital on the impact of community-based water services. (excerpt)