Dan Skidmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 209844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Skidmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Skidmore |
| SIGNATURE | SKIDMORE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4955-1455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Searching for a “China model” along the Belt and Road
While China's own leadership offers their country's economic success as a model for other developing countries, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is instead promoting a very different path of development. Differences between China's own experience and the BRI path are stark in terms of the timing of infrastructure development, the sources of financing, the political conditions surrounding infrastructure investment and the roles of manufactur…
The Aiib in the Liberal International Order
The rise of China raises fundamental questions about the future of the liberal international order (LIO) at a time when it is under ever more strain. Although China’s focus for some years was on joining and participating in existing multilateral institutions, today China is increasingly building its own. Prominent among them is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), launched in late 2014. Against the background of contending theoretical…
The Obama Presidency and US Foreign Policy: Where’s the Multilateralism
Expectations that the presidential transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama would produce a multilateralist turn in American foreign policy have thus far proven misplaced. This is largely because the strategic environment of the post-Cold War era places structural constraints on the ability of any US president, of whatever ideological leanings, to pursue a consistently multilateralist foreign policy. Internationally, the absence of a shared…
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right – By Adam Clymer
The Clash Within
Samuel Huntington's latest book offers, in microcosm, a reprise on his famous “clash of civilizations” thesis. Only this time, the culture wars he describes take place, not on the killing fields of Bosnia, but on the streets of the United States where protectors of the republic's Anglo-Protestant heritage are pitted against immigrant interlopers and the secular prophets of multiculturalism. In his earlier book, Huntington (1996) warned against th…
Understanding the Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy
How should we explain the recent unilateralist turn in U.S. foreign policy? Some accounts treat growing American unilateralism as a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration. This paper, by contrast, traces U.S. unilateralism to the structural effects, at home and abroad, of the end of the Cold War. Internationally, the removal of the Soviet threat has undermined the “institutional bargain” that on…
The More Things Change
Should we celebrate the end of history, the obsolescence of major war, and the retreat of the state? Or must we cower before the coming chaos and clash of civilizations, while reminiscing fondly about the good old days of the Cold War? Whether dispensing good cheer or dour pessimism, many of the most widely read authors writing about international relations in recent years have agreed about one thing—the future will be discontinuous with the past…
Civil Society, Social Capital and Economic Development
In recent decades, debates over the determinants of economic development have routinely turned on disagreements over the proper boundaries between the state and the market. Statists argue that the imperfect and immature markets of most developing countries require the guidance of a strong, autonomous, Weberian state. Neo-liberals champion the ef® ciency of free markets in allocating resources toward their most productive uses and decry the distor…
Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Book reviewed in this article: Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on US Arms Control Policy by Jeffrey Knopf
Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
This volume offers a redefinition of the welfare state a power process that involves shifts in relative emphasis on both corporate and social welfare processes and expenditures. Through an analysis of the 1989 savings and loan bailout, the authors reveal the dynamics of the welfare process, and provide central case studies and a conceptual framework for policy debates on welfare as we know it
The Dialectics of White-Collar Crime: The Anatomy of the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Case of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association
TWO perspectives prevail in analyses of the savings and loan industry's crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s: on one hand are claims of individual fraud and greed; on the other are arguments focusing on organizational factors, particularly the deregulated environment in which lax or nonexistant oversight encouraged "collective embezzelment." Both approaches rely on a narrow conceptualization of the concept of white-collar crime that focuses on ide…
The Dialectics of State Economic Intervention: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
Much research has been devoted to analyses of the factors that influence the creation and implementation of state policy. Conventional theories of the state suggest interesting frameworks for understanding the savings and loan bailout legislation. However, they are limited because they have stalled in a debate predicated on the presumption of theoretically mutual exclusivity. While an increasing number of observers have begun to call for a synthe…
Carter and the Failure of Foreign Policy Reform
The 1970s were a period of aborted change in U.S. foreign policy. The pervasive post-World War II consensus among foreign policy elites crumbled under the weight of the Vietnam war and global economic travails. New policy paradigms such as detente and liberal internationalism not only stirred debate but often served as the basis for marked policy departures. Richard Nixon was the first American president to challenge past orthodoxy when he took b…
Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America, Zed Press
Understanding the Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy
How should we explain the recent unilateralist turn in U.S. foreign policy? Some accounts treat growing American unilateralism as a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration. This paper, by contrast, traces U.S. unilateralism to the structural effects, at home and abroad, of the end of the Cold War. Internationally, the removal of the Soviet threat has undermined the “institutional bargain” that on…
The Aiib in the Liberal International Order
The rise of China raises fundamental questions about the future of the liberal international order (LIO) at a time when it is under ever more strain. Although China’s focus for some years was on joining and participating in existing multilateral institutions, today China is increasingly building its own. Prominent among them is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), launched in late 2014. Against the background of contending theoretical…
Civil Society, Social Capital and Economic Development
In recent decades, debates over the determinants of economic development have routinely turned on disagreements over the proper boundaries between the state and the market. Statists argue that the imperfect and immature markets of most developing countries require the guidance of a strong, autonomous, Weberian state. Neo-liberals champion the ef® ciency of free markets in allocating resources toward their most productive uses and decry the distor…
The Obama Presidency and US Foreign Policy: Where’s the Multilateralism
Expectations that the presidential transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama would produce a multilateralist turn in American foreign policy have thus far proven misplaced. This is largely because the strategic environment of the post-Cold War era places structural constraints on the ability of any US president, of whatever ideological leanings, to pursue a consistently multilateralist foreign policy. Internationally, the absence of a shared…
Carter and the Failure of Foreign Policy Reform
The 1970s were a period of aborted change in U.S. foreign policy. The pervasive post-World War II consensus among foreign policy elites crumbled under the weight of the Vietnam war and global economic travails. New policy paradigms such as detente and liberal internationalism not only stirred debate but often served as the basis for marked policy departures. Richard Nixon was the first American president to challenge past orthodoxy when he took b…
The Dialectics of White-Collar Crime: The Anatomy of the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Case of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association
TWO perspectives prevail in analyses of the savings and loan industry's crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s: on one hand are claims of individual fraud and greed; on the other are arguments focusing on organizational factors, particularly the deregulated environment in which lax or nonexistant oversight encouraged "collective embezzelment." Both approaches rely on a narrow conceptualization of the concept of white-collar crime that focuses on ide…
The Dialectics of State Economic Intervention: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
Much research has been devoted to analyses of the factors that influence the creation and implementation of state policy. Conventional theories of the state suggest interesting frameworks for understanding the savings and loan bailout legislation. However, they are limited because they have stalled in a debate predicated on the presumption of theoretically mutual exclusivity. While an increasing number of observers have begun to call for a synthe…
Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America, Zed Press
Carter and the Failure of Foreign Policy Reform
The 1970s were a period of aborted change in U.S. foreign policy. The pervasive post-World War II consensus among foreign policy elites crumbled under the weight of the Vietnam war and global economic travails. New policy paradigms such as detente and liberal internationalism not only stirred debate but often served as the basis for marked policy departures. Richard Nixon was the first American president to challenge past orthodoxy when he took b…
The Dialectics of State Economic Intervention: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
Much research has been devoted to analyses of the factors that influence the creation and implementation of state policy. Conventional theories of the state suggest interesting frameworks for understanding the savings and loan bailout legislation. However, they are limited because they have stalled in a debate predicated on the presumption of theoretically mutual exclusivity. While an increasing number of observers have begun to call for a synthe…
Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
This volume offers a redefinition of the welfare state a power process that involves shifts in relative emphasis on both corporate and social welfare processes and expenditures. Through an analysis of the 1989 savings and loan bailout, the authors reveal the dynamics of the welfare process, and provide central case studies and a conceptual framework for policy debates on welfare as we know it
The Dialectics of White-Collar Crime: The Anatomy of the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Case of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association
TWO perspectives prevail in analyses of the savings and loan industry's crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s: on one hand are claims of individual fraud and greed; on the other are arguments focusing on organizational factors, particularly the deregulated environment in which lax or nonexistant oversight encouraged "collective embezzelment." Both approaches rely on a narrow conceptualization of the concept of white-collar crime that focuses on ide…
Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Book reviewed in this article: Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on US Arms Control Policy by Jeffrey Knopf
Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout
Civil Society, Social Capital and Economic Development
In recent decades, debates over the determinants of economic development have routinely turned on disagreements over the proper boundaries between the state and the market. Statists argue that the imperfect and immature markets of most developing countries require the guidance of a strong, autonomous, Weberian state. Neo-liberals champion the ef® ciency of free markets in allocating resources toward their most productive uses and decry the distor…
Understanding the Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy
How should we explain the recent unilateralist turn in U.S. foreign policy? Some accounts treat growing American unilateralism as a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration. This paper, by contrast, traces U.S. unilateralism to the structural effects, at home and abroad, of the end of the Cold War. Internationally, the removal of the Soviet threat has undermined the “institutional bargain” that on…
The More Things Change
Should we celebrate the end of history, the obsolescence of major war, and the retreat of the state? Or must we cower before the coming chaos and clash of civilizations, while reminiscing fondly about the good old days of the Cold War? Whether dispensing good cheer or dour pessimism, many of the most widely read authors writing about international relations in recent years have agreed about one thing—the future will be discontinuous with the past…
The Clash Within
Samuel Huntington's latest book offers, in microcosm, a reprise on his famous “clash of civilizations” thesis. Only this time, the culture wars he describes take place, not on the killing fields of Bosnia, but on the streets of the United States where protectors of the republic's Anglo-Protestant heritage are pitted against immigrant interlopers and the secular prophets of multiculturalism. In his earlier book, Huntington (1996) warned against th…
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right – By Adam Clymer
The Obama Presidency and US Foreign Policy: Where’s the Multilateralism
Expectations that the presidential transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama would produce a multilateralist turn in American foreign policy have thus far proven misplaced. This is largely because the strategic environment of the post-Cold War era places structural constraints on the ability of any US president, of whatever ideological leanings, to pursue a consistently multilateralist foreign policy. Internationally, the absence of a shared…
The Aiib in the Liberal International Order
The rise of China raises fundamental questions about the future of the liberal international order (LIO) at a time when it is under ever more strain. Although China’s focus for some years was on joining and participating in existing multilateral institutions, today China is increasingly building its own. Prominent among them is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), launched in late 2014. Against the background of contending theoretical…
Searching for a “China model” along the Belt and Road
While China's own leadership offers their country's economic success as a model for other developing countries, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is instead promoting a very different path of development. Differences between China's own experience and the BRI path are stark in terms of the timing of infrastructure development, the sources of financing, the political conditions surrounding infrastructure investment and the roles of manufactur…
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