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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Anarchy"”.
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Commitment and conflict
War is an inefficient outcome and therefore states ought to prefer to bargain over areas of conflict instead of fighting. However, in the anarchy of international relations there is no actor with a monopoly of power to enforce contracts between states. States then face a commitment problem when …
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Edmund Burke's German readers at the end of Enlightenment, 1790-1815
Amidst the upheaval of the French Revolution, the British parliamentarian and political theorist Edmund Burke received a vibrant reception in German-speaking Europe. Anxious to uncover the ideological roots of the anarchy that enveloped France – and worried that their own society might be …
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
Young people go to college not merely to equip themselves for competition in the workplace, but also to construct new identities and find a home in the world. This dissertation shows how, in the midst of wrenching social change, communities, too, use colleges in their struggle to reinvent and …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
<p>This work seeks to examine the role of the state in international relations. While international relations treat states as institutions endowed with agency, they lack any means of explaining how the state can gain agency, autonomy, and rationality.</p> <p>My dissertation seeks to reorient the …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
This thesis suggests that four twelfth-century English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering …