Patrick J Mcgowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 188416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick J Mcgowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgowan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOWAN P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part II, Empirical Findings
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part I, Theoretical Perspectives
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
African military coups d'état, 1956-2001: Frequency, Trends and Distribution
Described here is a new data set including all successful coups d'état (80), failed coup attempts (108) and reported coup plots (139) for all 48 independent sub-Saharan African (SSA) states for the 46-year period from January 1956 until December 2001. Elite political instability (PI) in this form remains widespread in SSA, in contrast to other regions of the global South. Military-led PI has been shown to adversely affect economic growth and huma…
Teaching International Studies from a Regional Perspective: An ISP Symposium on Power, Wealth and Global Order: An International Textbook for Africa
Thanks to a suggestion made by Tim Shaw (Dalhousie University), the Editors of ISP decided about a year ago to commission a discussion of the textbook Power, Wealth and Global Order: An International Relations Textbook for Africa. This symposium aims at increasing our understanding of the different, regionally specific perspectives that can be brought to bear when studying international relations outside of North America and Western Europe. We wa…
The EU-SA free trade arrangements
(1999). The EU‐SA free trade arrangements. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 101-112
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two
(1998). Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 165-195
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part One
The "new" South Africa: Ascent or descent in the world system
Focusing more on South Africa's international cultural‐political‐economic strengths and weaknesses than on current domestic affairs, as it moves away from apartheid, this article examines the new South Africa's chances for ascent (development) or descent (underdevelopment) within the world system. Politically, the State will remain weak by international standards. Economically, it is in decline, largely because it is uncompetitive internationally…
Imperialism in World-System Perspective: Britain 1870-1914
The origins of current world inequality are to be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the period 1870–1914. The development of the world economy in this period is described, including the unique political-economic role of Great Britain within the world-system. A theory of imperialism based on the laissez-faire capitalist business cycle is developed which is intended to explain both British expansion and the accumulation of capital in…
The Single Logic of the World System
The Single Logic of The World System Get access Patrick McGowan Patrick McGowan Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 5, 1 June 1981, Pages 515–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/800223 Published: 30 July 2014
Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Economic dependency in black Africa: An Analysis of Competing Theories
Current attempts to understand and remedy the underdevelopment and peripheral international roles of Third World states derive from three competing paradigms: conventional social science, Marxism, and dependency theory. Each paradigm claims to explain past history and to make relevant policy recommendations for Third World leaders. Yet, none of these approaches has so far been formulated as complex, well specified, causal models. One can build th…
Economic Dependence and Economic Performance in Black Africa
Samir Amin has recently argued that black African countries are all characterised by extreme forms of underdevelopment. In his view, this situation is produced by the dependency of African states on more developed countries that is a consequence of the continent's common historical experience of economic exploitation by European-organised mercantilism, the slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism. Moreover, via the mechanisms of western-based ne…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Politics in Rhodesia: White Power in an African State. Larry W. Bowman
Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, Vol. I
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Alliance Behavior in Balance of Power Systems: Applying a Poisson Model to Nineteenth-Century Europe
This paper is a partial systematic test of Morton A. Kaplan's “theory” of alliance behavior in balance of power international systems first proposed in his well-known System and Process in International Politics (1957). Three hypotheses are inferred from Kaplan's writings predicting that in a stable balance of power system, (a) alliances will occur randomly with respect to time; (b) the time intervals between alliances will also be randomly distr…
Small State Foreign Policies: A Comparative Study of Participation, Conflict, and Political and Economic Dependence in Black Africa
As a comparative study of the foreign policy behavior of 30 black African states in the middle 1960s, we present a typology of states and foreign policy patterns that permits testable, comparative hypotheses to be derived. These hypotheses relating size, level of modernization, and inner or other directedness to four patterns of foreign policy—participation, conflict, political and economic dependence—are operationalized by use of the AFRICA data…
The Evolution of Tanzanian Political Leadership
Equality implies the adoption of a universalistic legal order, the application of achievement criteria in recruitment in all sectors of society, and fair treatment for all citizens. However, like many other new states, Tanzania is culturally plural, is unevenly developed, and has skilled manpower shortages. In the drive to fill positions with nationals, it is doubtful that equality of opportunity can be achieved with any consistency in the immedi…
African Studies in Comparative Perspective
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The Pattern of African Diplomacy: A Quantitative Comparison
Africa and Non-Alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Journal Article Africa and Non-alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy Get access Patrick J. McGowan Patrick J. McGowan Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1968, Pages 262–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013507 Published: 01 September 1968
African military coups d'état, 1956-2001: Frequency, Trends and Distribution
Described here is a new data set including all successful coups d'état (80), failed coup attempts (108) and reported coup plots (139) for all 48 independent sub-Saharan African (SSA) states for the 46-year period from January 1956 until December 2001. Elite political instability (PI) in this form remains widespread in SSA, in contrast to other regions of the global South. Military-led PI has been shown to adversely affect economic growth and huma…
Economic dependency in black Africa: An Analysis of Competing Theories
Current attempts to understand and remedy the underdevelopment and peripheral international roles of Third World states derive from three competing paradigms: conventional social science, Marxism, and dependency theory. Each paradigm claims to explain past history and to make relevant policy recommendations for Third World leaders. Yet, none of these approaches has so far been formulated as complex, well specified, causal models. One can build th…
Alliance Behavior in Balance of Power Systems: Applying a Poisson Model to Nineteenth-Century Europe
This paper is a partial systematic test of Morton A. Kaplan's “theory” of alliance behavior in balance of power international systems first proposed in his well-known System and Process in International Politics (1957). Three hypotheses are inferred from Kaplan's writings predicting that in a stable balance of power system, (a) alliances will occur randomly with respect to time; (b) the time intervals between alliances will also be randomly distr…
Small State Foreign Policies: A Comparative Study of Participation, Conflict, and Political and Economic Dependence in Black Africa
As a comparative study of the foreign policy behavior of 30 black African states in the middle 1960s, we present a typology of states and foreign policy patterns that permits testable, comparative hypotheses to be derived. These hypotheses relating size, level of modernization, and inner or other directedness to four patterns of foreign policy—participation, conflict, political and economic dependence—are operationalized by use of the AFRICA data…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part I, Theoretical Perspectives
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
The Pattern of African Diplomacy: A Quantitative Comparison
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part II, Empirical Findings
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
Economic Dependence and Economic Performance in Black Africa
Samir Amin has recently argued that black African countries are all characterised by extreme forms of underdevelopment. In his view, this situation is produced by the dependency of African states on more developed countries that is a consequence of the continent's common historical experience of economic exploitation by European-organised mercantilism, the slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism. Moreover, via the mechanisms of western-based ne…
Imperialism in World-System Perspective: Britain 1870-1914
The origins of current world inequality are to be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the period 1870–1914. The development of the world economy in this period is described, including the unique political-economic role of Great Britain within the world-system. A theory of imperialism based on the laissez-faire capitalist business cycle is developed which is intended to explain both British expansion and the accumulation of capital in…
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part One
The "new" South Africa: Ascent or descent in the world system
Focusing more on South Africa's international cultural‐political‐economic strengths and weaknesses than on current domestic affairs, as it moves away from apartheid, this article examines the new South Africa's chances for ascent (development) or descent (underdevelopment) within the world system. Politically, the State will remain weak by international standards. Economically, it is in decline, largely because it is uncompetitive internationally…
Africa and Non-Alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Journal Article Africa and Non-alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy Get access Patrick J. McGowan Patrick J. McGowan Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1968, Pages 262–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013507 Published: 01 September 1968
The Single Logic of the World System
The Single Logic of The World System Get access Patrick McGowan Patrick McGowan Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 5, 1 June 1981, Pages 515–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/800223 Published: 30 July 2014
Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two
(1998). Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 165-195
The EU-SA free trade arrangements
(1999). The EU‐SA free trade arrangements. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 101-112
The Evolution of Tanzanian Political Leadership
Equality implies the adoption of a universalistic legal order, the application of achievement criteria in recruitment in all sectors of society, and fair treatment for all citizens. However, like many other new states, Tanzania is culturally plural, is unevenly developed, and has skilled manpower shortages. In the drive to fill positions with nationals, it is doubtful that equality of opportunity can be achieved with any consistency in the immedi…
Africa and Non-Alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Journal Article Africa and Non-alignment: A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy Get access Patrick J. McGowan Patrick J. McGowan Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1968, Pages 262–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013507 Published: 01 September 1968
The Pattern of African Diplomacy: A Quantitative Comparison
African Studies in Comparative Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Evolution of Tanzanian Political Leadership
Equality implies the adoption of a universalistic legal order, the application of achievement criteria in recruitment in all sectors of society, and fair treatment for all citizens. However, like many other new states, Tanzania is culturally plural, is unevenly developed, and has skilled manpower shortages. In the drive to fill positions with nationals, it is doubtful that equality of opportunity can be achieved with any consistency in the immedi…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Politics in Rhodesia: White Power in an African State. Larry W. Bowman
Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, Vol. I
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Alliance Behavior in Balance of Power Systems: Applying a Poisson Model to Nineteenth-Century Europe
This paper is a partial systematic test of Morton A. Kaplan's “theory” of alliance behavior in balance of power international systems first proposed in his well-known System and Process in International Politics (1957). Three hypotheses are inferred from Kaplan's writings predicting that in a stable balance of power system, (a) alliances will occur randomly with respect to time; (b) the time intervals between alliances will also be randomly distr…
Small State Foreign Policies: A Comparative Study of Participation, Conflict, and Political and Economic Dependence in Black Africa
As a comparative study of the foreign policy behavior of 30 black African states in the middle 1960s, we present a typology of states and foreign policy patterns that permits testable, comparative hypotheses to be derived. These hypotheses relating size, level of modernization, and inner or other directedness to four patterns of foreign policy—participation, conflict, political and economic dependence—are operationalized by use of the AFRICA data…
Economic Dependence and Economic Performance in Black Africa
Samir Amin has recently argued that black African countries are all characterised by extreme forms of underdevelopment. In his view, this situation is produced by the dependency of African states on more developed countries that is a consequence of the continent's common historical experience of economic exploitation by European-organised mercantilism, the slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism. Moreover, via the mechanisms of western-based ne…
Economic dependency in black Africa: An Analysis of Competing Theories
Current attempts to understand and remedy the underdevelopment and peripheral international roles of Third World states derive from three competing paradigms: conventional social science, Marxism, and dependency theory. Each paradigm claims to explain past history and to make relevant policy recommendations for Third World leaders. Yet, none of these approaches has so far been formulated as complex, well specified, causal models. One can build th…
Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
Imperialism in World-System Perspective: Britain 1870-1914
The origins of current world inequality are to be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the period 1870–1914. The development of the world economy in this period is described, including the unique political-economic role of Great Britain within the world-system. A theory of imperialism based on the laissez-faire capitalist business cycle is developed which is intended to explain both British expansion and the accumulation of capital in…
The Single Logic of the World System
The Single Logic of The World System Get access Patrick McGowan Patrick McGowan Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 5, 1 June 1981, Pages 515–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/800223 Published: 30 July 2014
The "new" South Africa: Ascent or descent in the world system
Focusing more on South Africa's international cultural‐political‐economic strengths and weaknesses than on current domestic affairs, as it moves away from apartheid, this article examines the new South Africa's chances for ascent (development) or descent (underdevelopment) within the world system. Politically, the State will remain weak by international standards. Economically, it is in decline, largely because it is uncompetitive internationally…
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two
(1998). Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part Two. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 165-195
Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa: Part One
The EU-SA free trade arrangements
(1999). The EU‐SA free trade arrangements. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 101-112
Teaching International Studies from a Regional Perspective: An ISP Symposium on Power, Wealth and Global Order: An International Textbook for Africa
Thanks to a suggestion made by Tim Shaw (Dalhousie University), the Editors of ISP decided about a year ago to commission a discussion of the textbook Power, Wealth and Global Order: An International Relations Textbook for Africa. This symposium aims at increasing our understanding of the different, regionally specific perspectives that can be brought to bear when studying international relations outside of North America and Western Europe. We wa…
African military coups d'état, 1956-2001: Frequency, Trends and Distribution
Described here is a new data set including all successful coups d'état (80), failed coup attempts (108) and reported coup plots (139) for all 48 independent sub-Saharan African (SSA) states for the 46-year period from January 1956 until December 2001. Elite political instability (PI) in this form remains widespread in SSA, in contrast to other regions of the global South. Military-led PI has been shown to adversely affect economic growth and huma…
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part I, Theoretical Perspectives
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004: Part II, Empirical Findings
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro stru…
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