Neil A Englehart
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 752727 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil A Englehart |
| NOMBRES | Neil A |
| APELLIDO | Englehart |
| FIRMA | ENGLEHART N A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Myanmar’s Non-State Armed Groups and the Prospects for Peace
Myanmar has suffered the world’s longest civil war, with continuous combat since shortly before the country’s independence from the UK in 1948. A new National Ceasefire Agreement has raised hopes that peace may finally be in sight. However, optimism should be tempered by a recognition the peace process has not built much trust, reduced the number of non-state armed groups in the country, their total size, or significantly improved their human rig…
Women's Rights in International Law
Widespread adoption of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) represents a puzzle. It cannot be described as serving the interests of any state as understood in conventional theories of international relations because it commits countries to radical social change. Yet all but six UN member states have ratified it. We argue that the case can only be explained by reference to Waltz’ first image, the …
Non-state Armed Groups as a Threat to Global Security
What kind of security threats do non-state armed groups pose, and to whom? The literature has tended to take the state as a reference point for the study of non-state armed groups: insurgents have long been regarded as domestic military threats, and since 9/11, terrorism has been increasingly treated as a major transnational military threat. Because literature on armed non-state actors typically situates them in the context of war or protracted c…
Governors, Governance, and Insurgency in Karzai’s Afghanistan
Critics claim that lack of professionalism among Afghan provincial leaders undermines the government’s legitimacy, creating opportunities for the insurgency. Data on provincial governors show that those most effective at deterring insurgent attacks tend to have qualities associated with “warlords” rather than professionalism. Decentralization could harness these characteristics to improve governance
The Cedaw Effect
Evidence of demonstrable, positive effects for the United Nations’ international human rights treaties has generally eluded researchers. However, the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has a statistically significant and positive effect on women's rights, even when other key factors are controlled. This result is counterintuitive, given that CEDAW's enforcement mechanisms were initially weaker than…
Two Cheers for Burma’s Rigged Election
Burma’s recent election was clearly not free and fair. However, it can also be seen as improving a uniquely unrepresentative government, creating greater pluralism, and institutionalizing differences within the ruling junta. Even the rigged election may have created opportunities for further opening in the future
What Makes Civil Society Civil? The State and Social Groups
Many scholars use "civil society" to denote a realm of peaceful social organization independent from and often antagonistic to the state. The mass demonstrations that peacefully brought down Eastern European governments in the late 1980s legitimized this understanding. At the same time, however, governments were falling in less developed countries, and the social groups that emerged were decidedly uncivil. In these places competing groups preyed …
A Tale of Two Afghanistans
Afghanistan is often depicted as a failing state, but its failures display distinctive patterns over time and space. Regional variations in governance have been important in shaping the ways the Afghan state has failed and the consequences of these failures. This article argues that a history of better governance in the north facilitated the disarmament of militia warlords and comparative stability. By contrast, the south has a long history of mi…
Liberal Leviathan or Imperial Outpost? J. S. Furnivall on Colonial Rule in Burma
J. S. Furnivall, in his influential account of the impact of British rule in Burma 1824–1948, argues that British officials laid down a Liberal administration that exposed the colony to market forces, monetized the economy and devastated communities. However, there is little evidence that British administrators actually thought in Liberal terms: they relied heavily on institutions inherited from the Burmese monarchy, and when they introduced new …
Representing civilization
Although norms are important in various schools of international relations theory, there has been relatively little effort to integrate their various uses of the term. Here I seek to bring together the Constructivist use of norms based on individual human agency with the English School’s concept of solidarism. This perspective helps make sense of the expansion of international society, a point demonstrated through a study of the apparently anomal…
State Capacity, State Failure, and Human Rights
While it is universally recognized that states are responsible for human rights conditions in their jurisdictions, it is less often noticed that this responsibility has two dimensions, one normative and one empirical. Normatively, most people agree that states ought to prevent human rights abuses. Empirically, however, states may not always be able to do so. In weak and failing states, agency loss and the inability to police effectively can lead …
Resource conflict and ethnic peace in northern Thailand
Although northern Thailand has experienced both ethnic discrimination and resource conflicts, neither has produced significant organised violence. The relative absence of ethnically mobilised natural resource conflict in northern Thailand is due in part to the historical pattern of state formation, and in part to the Thai state's capacity to deter and mediate conflicts before they escalate into organised violence
Governments Against States
Although state failure has assumed considerable importance in the post-cold-war world, attempts to predict its occurrence statistically have not been very successful. Such attempts rely on off-the-shelf data collected for other purposes. To predict state failure, we need data more specific to the problem. A better body of theory is required to identify causal patterns, and case studies are a promising way to proceed. Case studies of paradigmatic …
Welcome to World Peace
Englehart and Kurzman examine several articles on the study of terrorism. Each study focuses on four distinct contexts for decisions to engage in terrorist activities, which include socio-political, ideological, local network and motivational
Is Regime Change Enough for Burma? The Problem of State Capacity
The U.S. and the EU employ sanctions to encourage regime change in Burma. This policy ignores serious problems of state capacity that impede a transition to democracy and would plague any transitional regime. Engagement with the current regime on issues of state capacity would improve the chances for a transition
Democracy and the Thai Middle Class
Although democratization in Thailand is often seen as an illustration of modernization theory, the extent of middle class support for democracy is actually unclear. The greatest advance for Thai democracy in the 1990s was the passage of the 1997 Constitution, more closely linked to economic globalization than modernization
Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government
State Capacity, State Failure, and Human Rights
While it is universally recognized that states are responsible for human rights conditions in their jurisdictions, it is less often noticed that this responsibility has two dimensions, one normative and one empirical. Normatively, most people agree that states ought to prevent human rights abuses. Empirically, however, states may not always be able to do so. In weak and failing states, agency loss and the inability to police effectively can lead …
The Cedaw Effect
Evidence of demonstrable, positive effects for the United Nations’ international human rights treaties has generally eluded researchers. However, the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has a statistically significant and positive effect on women's rights, even when other key factors are controlled. This result is counterintuitive, given that CEDAW's enforcement mechanisms were initially weaker than…
Is Regime Change Enough for Burma? The Problem of State Capacity
The U.S. and the EU employ sanctions to encourage regime change in Burma. This policy ignores serious problems of state capacity that impede a transition to democracy and would plague any transitional regime. Engagement with the current regime on issues of state capacity would improve the chances for a transition
Two Cheers for Burma’s Rigged Election
Burma’s recent election was clearly not free and fair. However, it can also be seen as improving a uniquely unrepresentative government, creating greater pluralism, and institutionalizing differences within the ruling junta. Even the rigged election may have created opportunities for further opening in the future
Democracy and the Thai Middle Class
Although democratization in Thailand is often seen as an illustration of modernization theory, the extent of middle class support for democracy is actually unclear. The greatest advance for Thai democracy in the 1990s was the passage of the 1997 Constitution, more closely linked to economic globalization than modernization
What Makes Civil Society Civil? The State and Social Groups
Many scholars use "civil society" to denote a realm of peaceful social organization independent from and often antagonistic to the state. The mass demonstrations that peacefully brought down Eastern European governments in the late 1980s legitimized this understanding. At the same time, however, governments were falling in less developed countries, and the social groups that emerged were decidedly uncivil. In these places competing groups preyed …
Liberal Leviathan or Imperial Outpost? J. S. Furnivall on Colonial Rule in Burma
J. S. Furnivall, in his influential account of the impact of British rule in Burma 1824–1948, argues that British officials laid down a Liberal administration that exposed the colony to market forces, monetized the economy and devastated communities. However, there is little evidence that British administrators actually thought in Liberal terms: they relied heavily on institutions inherited from the Burmese monarchy, and when they introduced new …
Governments Against States
Although state failure has assumed considerable importance in the post-cold-war world, attempts to predict its occurrence statistically have not been very successful. Such attempts rely on off-the-shelf data collected for other purposes. To predict state failure, we need data more specific to the problem. A better body of theory is required to identify causal patterns, and case studies are a promising way to proceed. Case studies of paradigmatic …
Non-state Armed Groups as a Threat to Global Security
What kind of security threats do non-state armed groups pose, and to whom? The literature has tended to take the state as a reference point for the study of non-state armed groups: insurgents have long been regarded as domestic military threats, and since 9/11, terrorism has been increasingly treated as a major transnational military threat. Because literature on armed non-state actors typically situates them in the context of war or protracted c…
Women's Rights in International Law
Widespread adoption of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) represents a puzzle. It cannot be described as serving the interests of any state as understood in conventional theories of international relations because it commits countries to radical social change. Yet all but six UN member states have ratified it. We argue that the case can only be explained by reference to Waltz’ first image, the …
Representing civilization
Although norms are important in various schools of international relations theory, there has been relatively little effort to integrate their various uses of the term. Here I seek to bring together the Constructivist use of norms based on individual human agency with the English School’s concept of solidarism. This perspective helps make sense of the expansion of international society, a point demonstrated through a study of the apparently anomal…
Governors, Governance, and Insurgency in Karzai’s Afghanistan
Critics claim that lack of professionalism among Afghan provincial leaders undermines the government’s legitimacy, creating opportunities for the insurgency. Data on provincial governors show that those most effective at deterring insurgent attacks tend to have qualities associated with “warlords” rather than professionalism. Decentralization could harness these characteristics to improve governance
Resource conflict and ethnic peace in northern Thailand
Although northern Thailand has experienced both ethnic discrimination and resource conflicts, neither has produced significant organised violence. The relative absence of ethnically mobilised natural resource conflict in northern Thailand is due in part to the historical pattern of state formation, and in part to the Thai state's capacity to deter and mediate conflicts before they escalate into organised violence
Welcome to World Peace
Englehart and Kurzman examine several articles on the study of terrorism. Each study focuses on four distinct contexts for decisions to engage in terrorist activities, which include socio-political, ideological, local network and motivational
Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government
Democracy and the Thai Middle Class
Although democratization in Thailand is often seen as an illustration of modernization theory, the extent of middle class support for democracy is actually unclear. The greatest advance for Thai democracy in the 1990s was the passage of the 1997 Constitution, more closely linked to economic globalization than modernization
Is Regime Change Enough for Burma? The Problem of State Capacity
The U.S. and the EU employ sanctions to encourage regime change in Burma. This policy ignores serious problems of state capacity that impede a transition to democracy and would plague any transitional regime. Engagement with the current regime on issues of state capacity would improve the chances for a transition
Welcome to World Peace
Englehart and Kurzman examine several articles on the study of terrorism. Each study focuses on four distinct contexts for decisions to engage in terrorist activities, which include socio-political, ideological, local network and motivational
Governments Against States
Although state failure has assumed considerable importance in the post-cold-war world, attempts to predict its occurrence statistically have not been very successful. Such attempts rely on off-the-shelf data collected for other purposes. To predict state failure, we need data more specific to the problem. A better body of theory is required to identify causal patterns, and case studies are a promising way to proceed. Case studies of paradigmatic …
Resource conflict and ethnic peace in northern Thailand
Although northern Thailand has experienced both ethnic discrimination and resource conflicts, neither has produced significant organised violence. The relative absence of ethnically mobilised natural resource conflict in northern Thailand is due in part to the historical pattern of state formation, and in part to the Thai state's capacity to deter and mediate conflicts before they escalate into organised violence
State Capacity, State Failure, and Human Rights
While it is universally recognized that states are responsible for human rights conditions in their jurisdictions, it is less often noticed that this responsibility has two dimensions, one normative and one empirical. Normatively, most people agree that states ought to prevent human rights abuses. Empirically, however, states may not always be able to do so. In weak and failing states, agency loss and the inability to police effectively can lead …
A Tale of Two Afghanistans
Afghanistan is often depicted as a failing state, but its failures display distinctive patterns over time and space. Regional variations in governance have been important in shaping the ways the Afghan state has failed and the consequences of these failures. This article argues that a history of better governance in the north facilitated the disarmament of militia warlords and comparative stability. By contrast, the south has a long history of mi…
Liberal Leviathan or Imperial Outpost? J. S. Furnivall on Colonial Rule in Burma
J. S. Furnivall, in his influential account of the impact of British rule in Burma 1824–1948, argues that British officials laid down a Liberal administration that exposed the colony to market forces, monetized the economy and devastated communities. However, there is little evidence that British administrators actually thought in Liberal terms: they relied heavily on institutions inherited from the Burmese monarchy, and when they introduced new …
Representing civilization
Although norms are important in various schools of international relations theory, there has been relatively little effort to integrate their various uses of the term. Here I seek to bring together the Constructivist use of norms based on individual human agency with the English School’s concept of solidarism. This perspective helps make sense of the expansion of international society, a point demonstrated through a study of the apparently anomal…
What Makes Civil Society Civil? The State and Social Groups
Many scholars use "civil society" to denote a realm of peaceful social organization independent from and often antagonistic to the state. The mass demonstrations that peacefully brought down Eastern European governments in the late 1980s legitimized this understanding. At the same time, however, governments were falling in less developed countries, and the social groups that emerged were decidedly uncivil. In these places competing groups preyed …
Two Cheers for Burma’s Rigged Election
Burma’s recent election was clearly not free and fair. However, it can also be seen as improving a uniquely unrepresentative government, creating greater pluralism, and institutionalizing differences within the ruling junta. Even the rigged election may have created opportunities for further opening in the future
The Cedaw Effect
Evidence of demonstrable, positive effects for the United Nations’ international human rights treaties has generally eluded researchers. However, the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has a statistically significant and positive effect on women's rights, even when other key factors are controlled. This result is counterintuitive, given that CEDAW's enforcement mechanisms were initially weaker than…
Governors, Governance, and Insurgency in Karzai’s Afghanistan
Critics claim that lack of professionalism among Afghan provincial leaders undermines the government’s legitimacy, creating opportunities for the insurgency. Data on provincial governors show that those most effective at deterring insurgent attacks tend to have qualities associated with “warlords” rather than professionalism. Decentralization could harness these characteristics to improve governance
Non-state Armed Groups as a Threat to Global Security
What kind of security threats do non-state armed groups pose, and to whom? The literature has tended to take the state as a reference point for the study of non-state armed groups: insurgents have long been regarded as domestic military threats, and since 9/11, terrorism has been increasingly treated as a major transnational military threat. Because literature on armed non-state actors typically situates them in the context of war or protracted c…
Myanmar’s Non-State Armed Groups and the Prospects for Peace
Myanmar has suffered the world’s longest civil war, with continuous combat since shortly before the country’s independence from the UK in 1948. A new National Ceasefire Agreement has raised hopes that peace may finally be in sight. However, optimism should be tempered by a recognition the peace process has not built much trust, reduced the number of non-state armed groups in the country, their total size, or significantly improved their human rig…
Women's Rights in International Law
Widespread adoption of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) represents a puzzle. It cannot be described as serving the interests of any state as understood in conventional theories of international relations because it commits countries to radical social change. Yet all but six UN member states have ratified it. We argue that the case can only be explained by reference to Waltz’ first image, the …
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