Akan Malici
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akan Malici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akan |
| FAMILY NAME | Malici |
| SIGNATURE | MALICI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Furman University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Washington responded with economic sanctions and significant military arms and intelligence in the most dangerous situation between the two superpowers since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Our analysis presents models from binary role theory, which allow us to identify the respective roles of the United States and Russia as agents in a strategic dyad during the diagnostic and prescriptive s…
Foreign Policy Belief Systems and Operational Code Analysis
Henry Kissinger once remarked, “As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.” It is common sense that a state’s foreign policy cannot be explained without reference to the beliefs of such leaders as Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, or Kim Jong Un, to name a few. It is, therefore, ironic that leaders have mattered litt…
Political Science Research in Practice
Before trying to answer this question, we need to empirically examine some new and unique international phenomena in the post-cold war era. Yes, we certainly experienced some relative peace in world politics since we have not observed another World War in three decades although there are some regional conflicts, such as in the Middle East. In Europe, the Kosovo and Bosnia wars are basically ethnic conflicts in nature but with external interventio…
Political science research in practice
U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes
Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations
Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the internal world of beliefs and the external world of events provide th…
Empathizing with Rogue Leaders: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Asad
The conventional wisdom regarding Iran and Syria is that these are belligerent states headed by hostile leaders. Rarely is an effort made to imagine how international politics are perceived from the Iranian or the Syrian perspectives, or consider how these perceptions are part of an interactive crisis in which the USA may be implicated as deeply as the regimes in Tehran and Damascus. In this article, we investigate the United States' ongoing cris…
Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War
Observing the evolution of international relations theory, one scholar wrote “Students coming of age in the post-cold war era seem to grasp intuitively that the study of international relations ... is ultimately about human beings, and that the way in which human beings engage in such relations ...” is difficult to comprehend through the lenses of theories that dominated throughout the cold war era (Gaddis 1992/1993, 55). Conventional internation…
Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior
Journal Article Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior Get access Akan Malici Akan Malici Furman University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 37–62, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00019.x Published: 13 January 2006
Discord and Collaboration between Allies: Managing External Threats and Internal Cohesion in Franco-British Relations during the 9/11 Era
Why did France and Great Britain cooperate in Operation Enduring Freedom after September 11, 2001, and fail to achieve cooperation in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003? Operational code analysis is used to test the threat-cooperation proposition that common perceptions of a security externality and common prescriptions toward it lead to cooperation, whereas an absence of common perceptions or prescriptions leads to a lack of cooperation. Oper…
The Operational Codes of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung: The Last Cold Warriors
Although the end of the Cold War brought the transformation of the communist bloc, some states have resisted the ensuing wave of democratization. This study assumes that important mechanisms of continuity and change in communist states are situated in the belief systems of their leaders and that the years between 1985 and 1991 were a catalytic period. What did Fidel Castro of Cuba and Kim Il Sung of North Korea learn from the end of the Cold War?…
The Operational Codes of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung: The Last Cold Warriors
Although the end of the Cold War brought the transformation of the communist bloc, some states have resisted the ensuing wave of democratization. This study assumes that important mechanisms of continuity and change in communist states are situated in the belief systems of their leaders and that the years between 1985 and 1991 were a catalytic period. What did Fidel Castro of Cuba and Kim Il Sung of North Korea learn from the end of the Cold War?…
Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior
Journal Article Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior Get access Akan Malici Akan Malici Furman University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 37–62, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00019.x Published: 13 January 2006
Discord and Collaboration between Allies: Managing External Threats and Internal Cohesion in Franco-British Relations during the 9/11 Era
Why did France and Great Britain cooperate in Operation Enduring Freedom after September 11, 2001, and fail to achieve cooperation in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003? Operational code analysis is used to test the threat-cooperation proposition that common perceptions of a security externality and common prescriptions toward it lead to cooperation, whereas an absence of common perceptions or prescriptions leads to a lack of cooperation. Oper…
Empathizing with Rogue Leaders: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Asad
The conventional wisdom regarding Iran and Syria is that these are belligerent states headed by hostile leaders. Rarely is an effort made to imagine how international politics are perceived from the Iranian or the Syrian perspectives, or consider how these perceptions are part of an interactive crisis in which the USA may be implicated as deeply as the regimes in Tehran and Damascus. In this article, we investigate the United States' ongoing cris…
Discord and Collaboration between Allies: Managing External Threats and Internal Cohesion in Franco-British Relations during the 9/11 Era
Why did France and Great Britain cooperate in Operation Enduring Freedom after September 11, 2001, and fail to achieve cooperation in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003? Operational code analysis is used to test the threat-cooperation proposition that common perceptions of a security externality and common prescriptions toward it lead to cooperation, whereas an absence of common perceptions or prescriptions leads to a lack of cooperation. Oper…
The Operational Codes of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung: The Last Cold Warriors
Although the end of the Cold War brought the transformation of the communist bloc, some states have resisted the ensuing wave of democratization. This study assumes that important mechanisms of continuity and change in communist states are situated in the belief systems of their leaders and that the years between 1985 and 1991 were a catalytic period. What did Fidel Castro of Cuba and Kim Il Sung of North Korea learn from the end of the Cold War?…
Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War
Observing the evolution of international relations theory, one scholar wrote “Students coming of age in the post-cold war era seem to grasp intuitively that the study of international relations ... is ultimately about human beings, and that the way in which human beings engage in such relations ...” is difficult to comprehend through the lenses of theories that dominated throughout the cold war era (Gaddis 1992/1993, 55). Conventional internation…
Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior
Journal Article Germans as Venutians: The Culture of German Foreign Policy Behavior Get access Akan Malici Akan Malici Furman University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 37–62, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00019.x Published: 13 January 2006
Empathizing with Rogue Leaders: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Asad
The conventional wisdom regarding Iran and Syria is that these are belligerent states headed by hostile leaders. Rarely is an effort made to imagine how international politics are perceived from the Iranian or the Syrian perspectives, or consider how these perceptions are part of an interactive crisis in which the USA may be implicated as deeply as the regimes in Tehran and Damascus. In this article, we investigate the United States' ongoing cris…
U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes
Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations
Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the internal world of beliefs and the external world of events provide th…
Political Science Research in Practice
Before trying to answer this question, we need to empirically examine some new and unique international phenomena in the post-cold war era. Yes, we certainly experienced some relative peace in world politics since we have not observed another World War in three decades although there are some regional conflicts, such as in the Middle East. In Europe, the Kosovo and Bosnia wars are basically ethnic conflicts in nature but with external interventio…
Political science research in practice
Foreign Policy Belief Systems and Operational Code Analysis
Henry Kissinger once remarked, “As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.” It is common sense that a state’s foreign policy cannot be explained without reference to the beliefs of such leaders as Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, or Kim Jong Un, to name a few. It is, therefore, ironic that leaders have mattered litt…
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Washington responded with economic sanctions and significant military arms and intelligence in the most dangerous situation between the two superpowers since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Our analysis presents models from binary role theory, which allow us to identify the respective roles of the United States and Russia as agents in a strategic dyad during the diagnostic and prescriptive s…
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