Arie M Kacowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 906076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arie M Kacowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kacowicz |
| SIGNATURE | KACOWICZ A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7403-4751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sovereignty, self-determination and the contending logics of territorial distribution
This article discusses the interplay between territorial sovereignty and national self-determination in international politics. It starts by drawing parallels between historical events such as the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and previous incidents of territorial snatching. The central argument is that the variance in international responses to these events can be explained by the extent to…
Vanni PettinÁ, La Guerra Fría en América Latina. Ciudad de México
This relatively concise but dense history offers an extraordinary synopsis of the chronology, dynamics, and major events of the Cold War in Latin America between 1946 and 1989.Prof. Pettinà presents a critical reflection about the Cold War that, with masterful prose, takes us through the intricacies of the period, with an emphasis on the impact and effects of the Cold War, a largescale geopolitical process in the second half of the past century, …
Mauricio Rubilar Luengo & Agustin SÁNCHEZ ANDRÉS (COORDS.), Relaciones internacionales y construcción nacional
Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows in the Americas
This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows as evidenced by drug trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, weapons trafficking, and terrorism in the Americas, a region characterized by international peace, domestic peace, and regional integration. Under the assumption that peaceful relations among neighboring countries enable the incursion of transnational nons…
The Problem of Peaceful Change Revisited
In this paper, we examine the perennial problem of peaceful change (how to bring about a change in the status quo by means other than war?) by reflecting on the post-Cold War order from 1991 to 2017. We examine the problem at three different levels of analysis: systemic (great power interactions), interactive (peaceful territorial change), and domestic (democratization efforts). At the interactive level, we assess the record of successes and fail…
The quest for regional legitimation
The topic of international legitimacy has returned to centre stage during the Arab Spring, in which the Arab League has apparently assumed a prominent legitimation role. Although some scholarship has studied how international organizations are decisive in legitimizing actors and their actions during conflicts, relatively scant attention has been focused at constructing a comprehensive analytical framework for this kind of assessment that could be…
Regional Governance and Global Governance
This article examines the possible links between regional governance and global governance from a regional perspective. It presents and develops a typology of linkages that include: (1) irrelevance; (2) conflict; (3) cooperation; and (4) harmonic relations. Moreover, it suggests three alternative explanations to make sense of the linkages as a function of the nature of the issue area of regional and global governance, the role of pivotal states, …
Why Don’t We Have Coherent Theories of International Relations About Globalization
This article offers a systematic and critical attempt to consider the question of why the discipline of international relations is at something of a loss to deal with the concept of globalization at a theoretical level. The article discusses this theoretical deficit by raising the following questions: How should we cope with globalization from an IR perspective? Why don't we have coherent theories of IR about globalization? What should we do abou…
From Rivalry to Rapprochement
In this brilliant book, Christopher Darnton from the Catholic University at Washington, DC, offers an elegant theory to explain the transition from conflict to cooperation, and from rivalry to rapprochement, in the case of several Latin American dyads of countries that aligned with the United States during the Cold War. In empirical terms, he examines the successful rapprochement between Argentina and Brazil in 1980 (in juxtaposition to previous …
Book Notes
Rashomon in Jerusalem
To understand the complexities and dilemmas of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict this paper maps the divergent Israeli positions along the route of the “Oslo” peace process of 1993–2001, including the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000), and Taba (January 2001). This paper is based upon a qualitative content analysis of 20 in-depth interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003 at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew Uni…
Rashomon in the Middle East
This article presents the contending narratives of the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The narratives refer to the ‘Oslo’ peace process of 1993-2000, the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000) and Taba (January 2001), and the ongoing asymmetrical war between Israel and the Palestinians since September 2000.They encompass the ‘official’ social reconstructions of how the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and th…
Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn
Journal Article Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy Get access Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy by Etel Solingen. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 334 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $18.95. Arie M. Kacowicz Arie M. Kacowicz The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Geopolitics and territorial issues
This paper surveys the impact of geopolitical thinking as applied to issues of territory in Latin America, with special emphasis upon its Southern Cone. The relevance of geopolitics is examined as an ideological doctrine and as a normative framework to understand territorial changes, territorial conflicts that have not escalated into fully‐fledged wars, and rare cases of actual wars fought in the twentieth century in South America. I question the…
Regionalization, Globalization, and Nationalism
This paper examines the interaction among the three forces that shape world politics in the contemporary system: globalization, regionalization, and nationalism. The main thesis suggested here is that these three forces cannot be assessed in isolation, independently from one another, nor from a perspective of either convergence or divergence among them. Rather, globalization, regionalization, and nationalism should be captured and studied as forc…
Third World zones of peace
International relations scholars have traditionally sought to explain war rather than peace. As a result, explanations for peace have been understudied. Most international security research has emphasized the genesis of peace or the beginning of wars. In contrast, we should do more to examine the maintenance of international peace over extended periods. We can focus, as illustrations, on peace in two regions of the Third World: South America and …
Negative' International Peace and Domestic Conflicts, West Africa, 1957-96
Since the decolonisation process in the continent began after World War II, West Africa stands out as the only zone of ‘negative’ peace. This terminology merely implies that the formal absence of international wars has been precariously maintained on an unstable basis by threats, deterrence, and/or a lack of will or capability to enter into interstate hostilities. Leaving aside the liberation struggle waged by Guinea-Bissau against Portugal 1965–…
The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change
Arie M. Kacowicz, The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Comparative Perspective, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 215-245
Explaining Zones of Peace
In the ongoing debate on explaining why democracies do not fight each other, an attempt to establish a correlation between democracies and territorial demands is made by posing the hypothesis that well-established democracies do not fight each other since they are conservative powers, usually satisfied with the territorial status quo within and across their borders. If this hypothesis is corroborated by the historical evidence, then it is possibl…
The Problem of Peaceful Territorial Change
This article deals with the process of change in the international status quo of territories, and how such changes may be brought about "peacefully," by means other than war. The main question I address is: Under what conditions and circumstances will alterations in the status quo of territories take place without warfare or other unilateral coercive means? In order to answer the above question, this study identifies three background conditions t…
Teaching International Relations in a Changing World
Explaining Zones of Peace
In the ongoing debate on explaining why democracies do not fight each other, an attempt to establish a correlation between democracies and territorial demands is made by posing the hypothesis that well-established democracies do not fight each other since they are conservative powers, usually satisfied with the territorial status quo within and across their borders. If this hypothesis is corroborated by the historical evidence, then it is possibl…
Rashomon in the Middle East
This article presents the contending narratives of the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The narratives refer to the ‘Oslo’ peace process of 1993-2000, the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000) and Taba (January 2001), and the ongoing asymmetrical war between Israel and the Palestinians since September 2000.They encompass the ‘official’ social reconstructions of how the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and th…
The Problem of Peaceful Territorial Change
This article deals with the process of change in the international status quo of territories, and how such changes may be brought about "peacefully," by means other than war. The main question I address is: Under what conditions and circumstances will alterations in the status quo of territories take place without warfare or other unilateral coercive means? In order to answer the above question, this study identifies three background conditions t…
The quest for regional legitimation
The topic of international legitimacy has returned to centre stage during the Arab Spring, in which the Arab League has apparently assumed a prominent legitimation role. Although some scholarship has studied how international organizations are decisive in legitimizing actors and their actions during conflicts, relatively scant attention has been focused at constructing a comprehensive analytical framework for this kind of assessment that could be…
Regionalization, Globalization, and Nationalism
This paper examines the interaction among the three forces that shape world politics in the contemporary system: globalization, regionalization, and nationalism. The main thesis suggested here is that these three forces cannot be assessed in isolation, independently from one another, nor from a perspective of either convergence or divergence among them. Rather, globalization, regionalization, and nationalism should be captured and studied as forc…
Negative' International Peace and Domestic Conflicts, West Africa, 1957-96
Since the decolonisation process in the continent began after World War II, West Africa stands out as the only zone of ‘negative’ peace. This terminology merely implies that the formal absence of international wars has been precariously maintained on an unstable basis by threats, deterrence, and/or a lack of will or capability to enter into interstate hostilities. Leaving aside the liberation struggle waged by Guinea-Bissau against Portugal 1965–…
The Problem of Peaceful Change Revisited
In this paper, we examine the perennial problem of peaceful change (how to bring about a change in the status quo by means other than war?) by reflecting on the post-Cold War order from 1991 to 2017. We examine the problem at three different levels of analysis: systemic (great power interactions), interactive (peaceful territorial change), and domestic (democratization efforts). At the interactive level, we assess the record of successes and fail…
Regional Governance and Global Governance
This article examines the possible links between regional governance and global governance from a regional perspective. It presents and develops a typology of linkages that include: (1) irrelevance; (2) conflict; (3) cooperation; and (4) harmonic relations. Moreover, it suggests three alternative explanations to make sense of the linkages as a function of the nature of the issue area of regional and global governance, the role of pivotal states, …
Geopolitics and territorial issues
This paper surveys the impact of geopolitical thinking as applied to issues of territory in Latin America, with special emphasis upon its Southern Cone. The relevance of geopolitics is examined as an ideological doctrine and as a normative framework to understand territorial changes, territorial conflicts that have not escalated into fully‐fledged wars, and rare cases of actual wars fought in the twentieth century in South America. I question the…
Third World zones of peace
International relations scholars have traditionally sought to explain war rather than peace. As a result, explanations for peace have been understudied. Most international security research has emphasized the genesis of peace or the beginning of wars. In contrast, we should do more to examine the maintenance of international peace over extended periods. We can focus, as illustrations, on peace in two regions of the Third World: South America and …
Rashomon in Jerusalem
To understand the complexities and dilemmas of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict this paper maps the divergent Israeli positions along the route of the “Oslo” peace process of 1993–2001, including the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000), and Taba (January 2001). This paper is based upon a qualitative content analysis of 20 in-depth interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003 at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew Uni…
Teaching International Relations in a Changing World
Why Don’t We Have Coherent Theories of International Relations About Globalization
This article offers a systematic and critical attempt to consider the question of why the discipline of international relations is at something of a loss to deal with the concept of globalization at a theoretical level. The article discusses this theoretical deficit by raising the following questions: How should we cope with globalization from an IR perspective? Why don't we have coherent theories of IR about globalization? What should we do abou…
The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change
Arie M. Kacowicz, The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Comparative Perspective, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 215-245
Teaching International Relations in a Changing World
The Problem of Peaceful Territorial Change
This article deals with the process of change in the international status quo of territories, and how such changes may be brought about "peacefully," by means other than war. The main question I address is: Under what conditions and circumstances will alterations in the status quo of territories take place without warfare or other unilateral coercive means? In order to answer the above question, this study identifies three background conditions t…
Explaining Zones of Peace
In the ongoing debate on explaining why democracies do not fight each other, an attempt to establish a correlation between democracies and territorial demands is made by posing the hypothesis that well-established democracies do not fight each other since they are conservative powers, usually satisfied with the territorial status quo within and across their borders. If this hypothesis is corroborated by the historical evidence, then it is possibl…
The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change
Arie M. Kacowicz, The Process of Reaching Peaceful Territorial Change: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Comparative Perspective, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 215-245
Third World zones of peace
International relations scholars have traditionally sought to explain war rather than peace. As a result, explanations for peace have been understudied. Most international security research has emphasized the genesis of peace or the beginning of wars. In contrast, we should do more to examine the maintenance of international peace over extended periods. We can focus, as illustrations, on peace in two regions of the Third World: South America and …
Negative' International Peace and Domestic Conflicts, West Africa, 1957-96
Since the decolonisation process in the continent began after World War II, West Africa stands out as the only zone of ‘negative’ peace. This terminology merely implies that the formal absence of international wars has been precariously maintained on an unstable basis by threats, deterrence, and/or a lack of will or capability to enter into interstate hostilities. Leaving aside the liberation struggle waged by Guinea-Bissau against Portugal 1965–…
Regionalization, Globalization, and Nationalism
This paper examines the interaction among the three forces that shape world politics in the contemporary system: globalization, regionalization, and nationalism. The main thesis suggested here is that these three forces cannot be assessed in isolation, independently from one another, nor from a perspective of either convergence or divergence among them. Rather, globalization, regionalization, and nationalism should be captured and studied as forc…
Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn
Journal Article Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy Get access Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy by Etel Solingen. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 334 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $18.95. Arie M. Kacowicz Arie M. Kacowicz The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Geopolitics and territorial issues
This paper surveys the impact of geopolitical thinking as applied to issues of territory in Latin America, with special emphasis upon its Southern Cone. The relevance of geopolitics is examined as an ideological doctrine and as a normative framework to understand territorial changes, territorial conflicts that have not escalated into fully‐fledged wars, and rare cases of actual wars fought in the twentieth century in South America. I question the…
Rashomon in Jerusalem
To understand the complexities and dilemmas of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict this paper maps the divergent Israeli positions along the route of the “Oslo” peace process of 1993–2001, including the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000), and Taba (January 2001). This paper is based upon a qualitative content analysis of 20 in-depth interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003 at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew Uni…
Rashomon in the Middle East
This article presents the contending narratives of the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The narratives refer to the ‘Oslo’ peace process of 1993-2000, the negotiations at Camp David (July 2000) and Taba (January 2001), and the ongoing asymmetrical war between Israel and the Palestinians since September 2000.They encompass the ‘official’ social reconstructions of how the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and th…
Book Notes
From Rivalry to Rapprochement
In this brilliant book, Christopher Darnton from the Catholic University at Washington, DC, offers an elegant theory to explain the transition from conflict to cooperation, and from rivalry to rapprochement, in the case of several Latin American dyads of countries that aligned with the United States during the Cold War. In empirical terms, he examines the successful rapprochement between Argentina and Brazil in 1980 (in juxtaposition to previous …
Why Don’t We Have Coherent Theories of International Relations About Globalization
This article offers a systematic and critical attempt to consider the question of why the discipline of international relations is at something of a loss to deal with the concept of globalization at a theoretical level. The article discusses this theoretical deficit by raising the following questions: How should we cope with globalization from an IR perspective? Why don't we have coherent theories of IR about globalization? What should we do abou…
The Problem of Peaceful Change Revisited
In this paper, we examine the perennial problem of peaceful change (how to bring about a change in the status quo by means other than war?) by reflecting on the post-Cold War order from 1991 to 2017. We examine the problem at three different levels of analysis: systemic (great power interactions), interactive (peaceful territorial change), and domestic (democratization efforts). At the interactive level, we assess the record of successes and fail…
The quest for regional legitimation
The topic of international legitimacy has returned to centre stage during the Arab Spring, in which the Arab League has apparently assumed a prominent legitimation role. Although some scholarship has studied how international organizations are decisive in legitimizing actors and their actions during conflicts, relatively scant attention has been focused at constructing a comprehensive analytical framework for this kind of assessment that could be…
Regional Governance and Global Governance
This article examines the possible links between regional governance and global governance from a regional perspective. It presents and develops a typology of linkages that include: (1) irrelevance; (2) conflict; (3) cooperation; and (4) harmonic relations. Moreover, it suggests three alternative explanations to make sense of the linkages as a function of the nature of the issue area of regional and global governance, the role of pivotal states, …
Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows in the Americas
This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows as evidenced by drug trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, weapons trafficking, and terrorism in the Americas, a region characterized by international peace, domestic peace, and regional integration. Under the assumption that peaceful relations among neighboring countries enable the incursion of transnational nons…
Vanni PettinÁ, La Guerra Fría en América Latina. Ciudad de México
This relatively concise but dense history offers an extraordinary synopsis of the chronology, dynamics, and major events of the Cold War in Latin America between 1946 and 1989.Prof. Pettinà presents a critical reflection about the Cold War that, with masterful prose, takes us through the intricacies of the period, with an emphasis on the impact and effects of the Cold War, a largescale geopolitical process in the second half of the past century, …
Mauricio Rubilar Luengo & Agustin SÁNCHEZ ANDRÉS (COORDS.), Relaciones internacionales y construcción nacional
Sovereignty, self-determination and the contending logics of territorial distribution
This article discusses the interplay between territorial sovereignty and national self-determination in international politics. It starts by drawing parallels between historical events such as the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and previous incidents of territorial snatching. The central argument is that the variance in international responses to these events can be explained by the extent to…
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