Richard W Maa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1598762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard W Maa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Maa |
| SIGNATURE | MAA R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0057-3303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Racialization in history and theory
World War II was saturated by racialized dynamics including imperialism, racist ideologies, persecution of racial minorities, and genocide. It was also the foundational conflict that inspired modern international relations, a field that during the late 20th century grew notable for its colorblindness—refusing to reflect on the potential importance of racialized dynamics in world politics. Why did a field built to explain such racialized events co…
Whitewashing American Exceptionalism
s American exceptionalism is enjoying a revival of scholarly interest amid new approaches to studying foreign policy narratives and unease regarding how US policymakers will manage a less unipolar international system. That revival coincides temporally, though not yet substantively, with growing attention to racialized dynamics and Eurocentrism within international relations. This article examines how core strands of American exceptionalism—the p…
Racialization and International Security
Racialization—the processes that infuse social and political phenomena with racial identities and implications—is an assertion of power, a claim of purportedly inherent differences that has saturated modern diplomacy, order, and violence. Despite the field's consistent interest in power, international security studies in the United States largely omitted racial dynamics from decades of debates about international conflict and cooperation, nuclear…
DiploSim
Although educators increasingly appreciate the pedagogical benefits of active learning techniques including simulations, many still see implementing them in their own classroom as a daunting task. The formidable time investment required often deters instructors from designing new simulations, and many find published simulations to be an imperfect fit. This article seeks to reduce the barriers to entry for instructors who are interested in designi…
Power and Restraint
U.S. foreign policy history is experiencing a renaissance among scholars of international relations, who in the past too frequently spurned its rich volumes as either too American or too historical to be suitable for testing their theories. Building on landmark works by Fareed Zakaria and Scott Silverstone, Jeffrey W. Meiser has crafted a valuable study investigating “the puzzle of American underexpansion” between the Spanish-American War and Wor…
"Difficult to Relinquish Territory Which Had Been Conquered"
Journal Article “Difficult to Relinquish Territory Which Had Been Conquered”: Expansionism and the War of 1812 Get access Richard W. Maass Richard W. Maass Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 70–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht132 Published: 06 January 2014
Groupthink and Terrorist Radicalization
Why do groups adopt terrorism? Major theories of terrorist radicalization assume it to be a rational process whereby groups select terrorism as the policy most likely to advance their goals. Not all terrorism is rational, however, and these theories cannot explain cases when groups pursue terrorism despite it being self-defeating. We distinguish between rational and irrational terrorism, and explain the latter using social psychology's groupthink…
Political Society and Cicero's Ideal State
Quantitative methods of content analysis have become established in most subfields of political science, but remain relatively unutilized in studies of political theory, despite the exclusive focus of that subfield on textual sources. This article develops a variation of content analysis—termed usage analysis—and employs it to resolve a standing debate in scholarship on Cicero's political theory regarding the synonymy of the major Latin terms for…
Racialization and International Security
Racialization—the processes that infuse social and political phenomena with racial identities and implications—is an assertion of power, a claim of purportedly inherent differences that has saturated modern diplomacy, order, and violence. Despite the field's consistent interest in power, international security studies in the United States largely omitted racial dynamics from decades of debates about international conflict and cooperation, nuclear…
Whitewashing American Exceptionalism
s American exceptionalism is enjoying a revival of scholarly interest amid new approaches to studying foreign policy narratives and unease regarding how US policymakers will manage a less unipolar international system. That revival coincides temporally, though not yet substantively, with growing attention to racialized dynamics and Eurocentrism within international relations. This article examines how core strands of American exceptionalism—the p…
Groupthink and Terrorist Radicalization
Why do groups adopt terrorism? Major theories of terrorist radicalization assume it to be a rational process whereby groups select terrorism as the policy most likely to advance their goals. Not all terrorism is rational, however, and these theories cannot explain cases when groups pursue terrorism despite it being self-defeating. We distinguish between rational and irrational terrorism, and explain the latter using social psychology's groupthink…
DiploSim
Although educators increasingly appreciate the pedagogical benefits of active learning techniques including simulations, many still see implementing them in their own classroom as a daunting task. The formidable time investment required often deters instructors from designing new simulations, and many find published simulations to be an imperfect fit. This article seeks to reduce the barriers to entry for instructors who are interested in designi…
Political Society and Cicero's Ideal State
Quantitative methods of content analysis have become established in most subfields of political science, but remain relatively unutilized in studies of political theory, despite the exclusive focus of that subfield on textual sources. This article develops a variation of content analysis—termed usage analysis—and employs it to resolve a standing debate in scholarship on Cicero's political theory regarding the synonymy of the major Latin terms for…
Groupthink and Terrorist Radicalization
Why do groups adopt terrorism? Major theories of terrorist radicalization assume it to be a rational process whereby groups select terrorism as the policy most likely to advance their goals. Not all terrorism is rational, however, and these theories cannot explain cases when groups pursue terrorism despite it being self-defeating. We distinguish between rational and irrational terrorism, and explain the latter using social psychology's groupthink…
"Difficult to Relinquish Territory Which Had Been Conquered"
Journal Article “Difficult to Relinquish Territory Which Had Been Conquered”: Expansionism and the War of 1812 Get access Richard W. Maass Richard W. Maass Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 70–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht132 Published: 06 January 2014
Power and Restraint
U.S. foreign policy history is experiencing a renaissance among scholars of international relations, who in the past too frequently spurned its rich volumes as either too American or too historical to be suitable for testing their theories. Building on landmark works by Fareed Zakaria and Scott Silverstone, Jeffrey W. Meiser has crafted a valuable study investigating “the puzzle of American underexpansion” between the Spanish-American War and Wor…
DiploSim
Although educators increasingly appreciate the pedagogical benefits of active learning techniques including simulations, many still see implementing them in their own classroom as a daunting task. The formidable time investment required often deters instructors from designing new simulations, and many find published simulations to be an imperfect fit. This article seeks to reduce the barriers to entry for instructors who are interested in designi…
Racialization and International Security
Racialization—the processes that infuse social and political phenomena with racial identities and implications—is an assertion of power, a claim of purportedly inherent differences that has saturated modern diplomacy, order, and violence. Despite the field's consistent interest in power, international security studies in the United States largely omitted racial dynamics from decades of debates about international conflict and cooperation, nuclear…
Whitewashing American Exceptionalism
s American exceptionalism is enjoying a revival of scholarly interest amid new approaches to studying foreign policy narratives and unease regarding how US policymakers will manage a less unipolar international system. That revival coincides temporally, though not yet substantively, with growing attention to racialized dynamics and Eurocentrism within international relations. This article examines how core strands of American exceptionalism—the p…
Racialization in history and theory
World War II was saturated by racialized dynamics including imperialism, racist ideologies, persecution of racial minorities, and genocide. It was also the foundational conflict that inspired modern international relations, a field that during the late 20th century grew notable for its colorblindness—refusing to reflect on the potential importance of racialized dynamics in world politics. Why did a field built to explain such racialized events co…
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