Kenneth W Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 294670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth W Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth W |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 by John Yoo
Journal Article The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 by John Yoo Get access The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11by John Yoo. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2005. 378pp. $29.00. Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue…
Moral Panics
It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies.This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and reflected through the media over time. Using examples drawn from:* club …
The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs
Readings from Emile Durkheim
Editor's Foreword Preface Introduction Part 1: Sociology - It's Nature and Programme 1. Sociology and the Social Sciences 2. Review of Antonis Labriola: Essays on the Materialist Conception of History Part 2: Division of Labour, Crime and Punishment 3. The Division of Labour in Society 4. The Laws of Penal Evolution Part 3: Sociology Method 5. The Rules of Sociological Method Part 4: Suicide 6. Suicide Part 5: Religion and Knowledge 7. The Elemen…
Massenet, Jules (opera)
Moral Panics
Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy Get access Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy by William G. Hyland. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 1999. 230 pp. $24.95. Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 626–628, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657618…
Key Quotations in Sociology
The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K. E. Bruce, 1898- 1977
Journal Article The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K. E. Bruce, 1898–1977. By Nelson D. Lankford. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. xii, 484 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-51501-9.) Get access Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 301–302, https://doi.o…
An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics, by Donald W. Shriver, Jr
Paul Theodore David
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Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-structuralist critique
Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs
Journal Article Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs. By Robert W. McElroy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-08621-4. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-691-00078-6.) Get access Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice
Journal Article Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. By Kenneth W. Thompson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. xiv + 353 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-1742-0. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8071-1746-3.) Get access Joel H. Rosenthal Joel H. Rosenthal Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological Perspective
Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy
The Decline of International Studies
In a recent report by Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, “Education in U.S. Schools of International Affairs,” Princeton's former president Robert F. Goheen presents several crucial factors in the apparent decline of international studies in the U.S. The private sector, which at first demanded broadly-educated professionals, have recently shown little enthusiasm for students of international affairs. This has resulted in …
Morality among Nations: An Evolutionary View. Mary Maxwell
A Realist Response to the Appeal for Pacifism
Thinking Sociologically
This paper explores the significance of authenticity in nursing education and the development of authentic healthcare practitioners.Identifying a current lack of authenticity in the learning materials used in the Transdisciplinary Science module at University of Salford, the authors set out to explore methods that can empower nursing students to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and its practical application in clinical settings.We con…
Peace Studies: Social Movement or Intellectual Discipline
Introduced by a few small religious liberal-arts colleges in the 1940s, the reformist movement toward studying peace has recently gained momentum in larger academic auditoriums. The author cites prominent academicians currently examining this trend and presents the case for accepting grass-roots social activism as a crucial link to the closed world of policy-making elites. He places faith in individual thinkers to provide new insights and practic…
Ubiquity of power
The Literature of Decline
This article compares reflections from four sources on the state of the American democracy in the international community ( The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 , by Paul Kennedy; 1999: Victory Without War , by Richard Nixon; “Communism at Bay,” The Economist; Long Cycles in World Politics , by George Modelski) within the framework of the 1980s, which was portrayed by leaders as “an era of…
The Religious Transformation of Politics and the Political Transformation of Religion
This article deals with the introduction of strongly fundamental views into the theory and practice of politics. It also concerns the transformation of religion from a concern with religious faith to the creation of political religions. Thus forces have been at work in the past two decades seeking to make a religion of politics and transforming religion into a holy political crusade in the form of a particular version of partisan politics
The Nixon Presidency
Expectant Peoples: Nationalism and Development
Toward a Theory of International Politics
Recently a group of scholars, analysts, and diplomatists met for a weekend conference on theoretical approaches to international politics. Their discussion was inspired by the widespread and growing interest in conceptual and theoretical problems illustrated by parallel efforts in the study of politics, economics, law, and human relations. In the field of foreign relations the impulse toward theory comes from practitioners as well as philosophers…
Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological Perspective
Readings from Emile Durkheim
Editor's Foreword Preface Introduction Part 1: Sociology - It's Nature and Programme 1. Sociology and the Social Sciences 2. Review of Antonis Labriola: Essays on the Materialist Conception of History Part 2: Division of Labour, Crime and Punishment 3. The Division of Labour in Society 4. The Laws of Penal Evolution Part 3: Sociology Method 5. The Rules of Sociological Method Part 4: Suicide 6. Suicide Part 5: Religion and Knowledge 7. The Elemen…
The Study of International Politics: A Survey of Trends and Developments
The question was raised at the end of World War II as to whether or not international relations could stand as a separate field of study. Views were expressed by scholars and teachers in history and political science to the effect that in substance there was nothing peculiar to the subject matter of international relations which did not fall under other separate fields of social studies. At some universities and colleges there were dissenters to …
The New Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace
Parliamentary diplomacy in international organization has its roots in the movement toward “diplomacy by conference.” As early as 1928, Frederick S. Dunn could assert:The rapidity with which the conference method has come to the forefront in the conduct of international intercourse is one of the most striking developments in the present era of world affairs. Within the space of a very few years, this method has almost entirely supplanted bilatera…
Collective Security Reexamined
From one standpoint it is a truism to say that collective security is something new under the sun. In past eras and especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, war was conceived of as a duel in which contestants should be isolated and restrained by the rest of international society. When nations engaged in armed conflict their neighbors sought to localize the struggle and alleviate its poisonous effects. However short-sighted their act…
Religion and Politics in the United States: An Overview
This article seeks to examine the relationship between the sacred and the secular in the United States historically and in the present. It probes what the founding fathers intended and how church-state relations have changed over time. The tendency of contemporary leaders to inject their religious views into public policy positions is analyzed in some detail, and perils of abridging the principles of church-state relations that are enshrined in t…
Policy and theory in Quincy Wright's international relations
Looking back in personal recollection on the teaching of Quincy Wright, I am struck by the extent to which he combined broad theoretical interests and concern for policies and problem-oriented studies. The criticism is frequently made by reviewers of the corpus of international relations literature that theorists are indifferent to problems and students of foreign policy care little for scientific or philosophical generalizations. It is suggestiv…
Beyond National Interest: A Critical Evaluation of Reinhold Niebuhr's Theory of International Polities
Until more or less recently, few students of international affairs have been preoccupied with the theoretical aspects of their field. To the extent that theory is distinguished from history, law and science, this is especially true. Historians have sought to uncover the facts and recite them with the most fastidious regard for the circumstances of time and place. Lawyers have tried to detect in the case law of international agreements and treatie…
The Empirical, Normative, and Theoretical Foundations of International Studies
International relations have been the object of widespread study and review in the United States since World War I. Attention has focussed alternately on the flow of events, the goals and standards, and the underlying principles of world affairs. Primary emphasis has been directed to empirical, normative and theoretical problems. Along the way, scholars, statesmen and observers have singled out certain factors from the myriad dimensions of intern…
Toynbee and the Theory of International Politics
The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs
Moral Panics
Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy Get access Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy by William G. Hyland. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 1999. 230 pp. $24.95. Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 626–628, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657618…
An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics, by Donald W. Shriver, Jr
Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy
A Realist Response to the Appeal for Pacifism
The President, the Congress and Foreign Policy
Studies the formulation of American foreign policy by the executive and legislative branches of the government. This book recommends some reforms which could improve the working relationship between the two governmental branches. These constructive, though not sweeping, recommendations exhibit the volume's successful marriage of theory and practice. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States
Power, Force and Diplomacy
The present crisis has generated intense debate over the instruments of foreign policy the United States has at its disposal and controversy over their use in particular stages of a dispute or conflict. The debate has centered over the meaning and use of power and force. A little more than a decade ago, writing On Violence in an era when its primary manifestation was within national boundaries, the American political philosopher, the late Hannah …
Moral Reasoning in American Thought on War and Peace
It is said by some observers of politics and foreign policy that morality has nothing to do with the vital issues of national and international politics. Experienced practitioners note that seldom if ever are moral issues invoked in serious policy discussions; politics and foreign policy are a practical art in which interest and power prevail. Others take issue with this view claiming that from its history America has derived a high responsibilit…
The Green Revolution: Leadership and Partnership in Agriculture
In an era of profound social change, when all aspects of national and international life are under scrutiny and review, it is vital that successes and failures in international scientific and educational relations be examined. The most dramatic success story in recent times may be the cooperative programs in agriculture that have led to the “green revolution.” The history of this remarkable effort can be measured against the criteria of the devel…
The Internationalist's Dilemma: Relevance and Rigor
Journal Article The Internationalist's Dilemma: Relevance and Rigor Get access Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 1968, Pages 161–173, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013499 Published: 01 June 1968
The Making of Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Decision-Making, by Joseph Frankel
Joseph Frankel, Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, has established a model for analysing the process of foreign policy making in individual states. The aim , as he says, is not to formulate a theory of general application but rather to establish generalizations valid within the historically context of our times. The book is concerned with all the various factors which can impinge on a particular policy in foreign…
Mr. Toynbee and World Politics: War and National Security
I HE problem of war and national security, at one time conceived of as the province of almost anyone but the peace-minded international relationist, has come increasingly to occupy scholars and researchers. Arnold J. Toynbee, whose major concern is the philosophy of history, preserves a lively interest in international politics and particularly in the problem of war, the principles of foreign policy, and the quest for an applicable body of theory…
Principles and Problems of International Politics: Selected Readings
The Study of International Politics: A Survey of Trends and Developments
The question was raised at the end of World War II as to whether or not international relations could stand as a separate field of study. Views were expressed by scholars and teachers in history and political science to the effect that in substance there was nothing peculiar to the subject matter of international relations which did not fall under other separate fields of social studies. At some universities and colleges there were dissenters to …
Collective Security Reexamined
From one standpoint it is a truism to say that collective security is something new under the sun. In past eras and especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, war was conceived of as a duel in which contestants should be isolated and restrained by the rest of international society. When nations engaged in armed conflict their neighbors sought to localize the struggle and alleviate its poisonous effects. However short-sighted their act…
Man and Modern Society: Conflict and Choice in the Industrial Era
Ernest Bevin: Portrait of a Great Englishman . Francis Williams
Man and Modern Society
Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague, by Alfred Cobban
Journal Article Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague, by Alfred Cobban Get access Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague. By Alfred Cobban. London, Jonathan Cape, 1954.—255 pp. 215. net. Kenneth W. Thompson Kenneth W. Thompson New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
Beyond National Interest: A Critical Evaluation of Reinhold Niebuhr's Theory of International Polities
Until more or less recently, few students of international affairs have been preoccupied with the theoretical aspects of their field. To the extent that theory is distinguished from history, law and science, this is especially true. Historians have sought to uncover the facts and recite them with the most fastidious regard for the circumstances of time and place. Lawyers have tried to detect in the case law of international agreements and treatie…
Toward a Theory of International Politics
Recently a group of scholars, analysts, and diplomatists met for a weekend conference on theoretical approaches to international politics. Their discussion was inspired by the widespread and growing interest in conceptual and theoretical problems illustrated by parallel efforts in the study of politics, economics, law, and human relations. In the field of foreign relations the impulse toward theory comes from practitioners as well as philosophers…
Mr. Toynbee and World Politics: War and National Security
I HE problem of war and national security, at one time conceived of as the province of almost anyone but the peace-minded international relationist, has come increasingly to occupy scholars and researchers. Arnold J. Toynbee, whose major concern is the philosophy of history, preserves a lively interest in international politics and particularly in the problem of war, the principles of foreign policy, and the quest for an applicable body of theory…
Toynbee and World Politics: Democracy and Foreign Policy
The first two decades of the twentieth century witnessed the flowering of a philosophy of international politics that was unambiguously simple, straightforward and capable of engendering widespread popular appeal. This philosophy looked in a spirit of buoyant optimism to democracy and national self-determination as the twin sources of international peace and order. The creation of popular regimes on the Anglo-American model everywhere throughout …
Toynbee and the Theory of International Politics
Toynbee and World Politics: Basic Forces Underlying Contemporary International Relations
The search for more general truths in international relations leads to an examination of the basic forces that shape the conduct of foreign relations. This has been a major preoccupation of the new study of international relations. Scholarly observers holding up a mirror to international society note certain common features, some going back to the Greeks, others to the Treaty of Westphalia, others to the French Revolution, and still others to the…
Theory-making in international politics: A review of George Liska, International equilibrium: a theoretical essay on the politics and organization of security
It may be no more than a truism to ob-serve that the problems of international politics multiply so rapidly in number and bewildering complexity that sober minds among us despair altogether of man’s ca-pacity to meet them. To some reasonable men it appears that human resources are always in short supply; novel challenges are forever emerging on the horizon just when present difficulties seem under control. Per-plexities tend relentlessly to outru…
Statesmen as Philosophers: Written and Living Theories
The periods in American history when learned men and public leaders effectively join hands to face current problems are comparatively few and far between. The paucity and long intervals are not for want of the frequent, mutual exhortation of theorists and practitioners to cooperate and give aid that is sorely needed. The nature of the demands they lay upon each other are often beyond reach. Theorists would like full blueprints of the various elem…
The Limits of Principle in International Politics: Necessity and the New Balance of Power
National Security and Morality: An American View
NATIONAL a half primarily the concern of soldiers statesmen. In postwar American foreign policy, however, public opinion has engaged in a succession of great debates on military strategy. Collective security, support of NATO nuclear weapons policy appear on the agenda of successive public discussions. Yet significantly no discussion of defense policy has been free of reference to moral issues. It is as if Americans had reformulated Clemenceau's c…
Human Freedom and Social Order
Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics: An American Approach to Foreign Policy
Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics: An American Approach to Foreign Policy. By Kenneth W. Thompson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. xii + 261 pp. Notes, selected readings, and index. $5.00.) Get access Richard W. Van Alstyne Richard W. Van Alstyne University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 2, September 1960, …
Christian Ethics and the Dilemmas of Foreign Policy
The Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr
Christian Ethics and the Dilemmas of Foreign Policy
Conflict and Cooperation among Nations
The Making of Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Decision-Making, by Joseph Frankel
Joseph Frankel, Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, has established a model for analysing the process of foreign policy making in individual states. The aim , as he says, is not to formulate a theory of general application but rather to establish generalizations valid within the historically context of our times. The book is concerned with all the various factors which can impinge on a particular policy in foreign…
Expectant Peoples: Nationalism and Development
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