Frederic S Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 307466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederic S Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederic S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Speeding Up Success: Analyzing Factors Influencing the Duration of Nonviolent Movements
Background Resistance movements that challenge government authority appear to be on the rise. While they may use violent or non‐violent tactics, non‐violent movements have become the most prevalent type of government opposition mobilization, outperforming violent movements by a 2‐to‐1 success rate in obtaining objectives. Given this, the present study focuses intently on resistance movement duration, and specifically asks what factors predict how…
Analyzing Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Insights on Global Security During the Ukraine Conflict
International arms trade and transfers: Rising producers, advanced technology, and adapting regulations
The end of the Cold War era has ushered in a century in which great military powers like the US, China, and Russia continue to dominate the arms trade, yet minor powers are also investing heavily in arms manufacturing and technologies and profiting from lucrative arms transfers. Changes in the arms trade have fostered cooperative international regulatory practices and agreements, but recent conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and …
Major power politics and non-violent resistance movements
Non-violent movements are rarely confined to the borders of the societies in which they take place. International actors are prone to take a side in the face of such resistance. Yet knowledge is limited on external actors’ effects on outcomes of non-violent protests abroad. Thus, we zero in on the strategic logic behind major powers’ involvement decisions regarding such movements, and the impact those decisions have on campaign outcomes. We find …
How to de-escalate dangerous nuclear weapons and force deployments in Europe
Amidst the war in Ukraine, it is important to raise the prospect and vision of creating mutual security guarantees and ridding Europe of its dangerous nuclear weapon systems and provocative force deployments. In view of reckless Kremlin rhetoric and aggressive military action in Russia’s so-called near abroad, it is time for renewed approaches to arms control. As the Ukraine situation plays out, Russia, the United States, and allies in the North …
Conflict Settlement and Outcomes of Post‐Cold War International Military Interventions
Scholars noted a remarkable shift in the pattern and motives of international military intervention with the end of the Cold War, namely toward more multilateral and humanitarian missions, often leading to more negotiated conflict settlement. Yet just twenty years later, counter‐trends had already begun to emerge, with renewed major power competition, more complicated multi‐factional civil wars, and cross‐border insurgent/terrorist networks. Usin…
Civilian victimization and international military intervention in civil wars
Civil wars are particularly destructive and asymmetric in nature. As a result, humanitarian crises and episodes of one-sided violence against civilians are likely to emerge. In the post-Cold War era, human rights norms have been strengthened by a global commitment stating that nations have a responsibility to protect people against war crimes. Although the doctrine does not require military responses, as episodes of one-sided violence increase dr…
Weapons of War, Weapons of Peace: DDR Processes in Peacemaking
Recent trends in international responses to civil war and humanitarian crises highlight the growing importance of multilateral intervention by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Academics and practitioners agree that higher levels of cooperation should yield better outcomes, while the literature emphasizes the importance of commitment. Yet the question of how organizations collaborate with each other and local authorities remains largely unc…
Cultural factors in peace-making: The Israeli-Palestinian context
The importance of culture, while recognized, has received proportionately less attention than political and economic issues and objective interests in settling political disputes. Traditional ways of understanding conflict and approaches to reconciliation nevertheless appear to play a major role in the frequent breakdown of peace agreements, as parties’ underlying needs and expectations are not met. A review of data on peace agreements in the Mid…
Group Structure and Intergroup Relations in Global Terror Networks: Further Explorations
Studies have begun to look at the potentially crucial impacts of group decentralization and inter-group global networking in accounting for the extent and severity of violence in insurgencies and terrorism. Groups may be able to survive more effectively, evade anti-terror or counter-insurgency strategies, and inflict greater damage or more civilian attacks by operating under more or less centralized leadership, or by making use of the resources o…
Peacemaking in Intractable Conflict: A Contractualist Approach
This article presents a contractualist approach to peace and conflict studies that grows out of classical paradigms in the field. The contractualist approach proposes a solution to intractable conflicts through processes such as a public negotiating congress to transform conflicting parties into a large peacemaking community. The vision of an ideal congress is based on the multi-party talks that had operated in South Africa and Northern Ireland d…
The Collapse of Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: Breaking the barriers of fear and power
This article analyses Middle Eastern authoritarianism and the contemporary political transformations which have swept the region. It suggests that, given the uneven spread of reform and the selectiveness of international intervention, the prioritisation of Middle Eastern stability over democratic transformation, combined with local authoritarian regimes' ability to use excessive force against their own populations and insurgents, are responsible …
Unilateral and Multilateral Military Intervention: Effects on Stability and Security
The success rate of military intervention has traditionally been judged by its ability to end conflict and/or serve intervener security interests. However, contemporary military intervention in troubled or collapsing states is often intended not only to increase security but also to establish conditions in which political reform or reconstruction can proceed. Judging the success of intervention therefore means isolating and measuring its impact o…
Steps toward Peace in Civil Wars in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Disaggregate Approach to Civil War Settlements
Regardless of the types of civil conflict settlements, all parties generally enter into some sorts of tacit or direct bargaining in the course of civil conflict, namely, in steps toward peace. In contrast to a basically static framework employed in much of existing literature on civil war settlements and mediation, this article proposes a disaggregate approach to dynamic and multi-phase processes in civil conflict termination via negotiations. We…
A Palestinian–Israeli public assembly and the American black church: Two grassroots efforts to build the foundations of a decent social order
This paper draws lessons from the role played by the black church in creating support for the US civil rights movement in relation to the struggle to involve the Palestinian and the Israeli people directly in the peacemaking efforts to resolve their tragic conflict. The civil rights struggle in both the US and South Africa eventually engaged large segments of the public in both productive debate and campaigning. The corresponding impetus now is t…
Locational factors in citizen peace negotiations
The article offers a critical comparison between two extreme cases of the Minds of Peace Experiment: the Detroit round (May 2009) and the first round in Israel–Palestine (Beit Jala – August 2009). It explores the question of residential location in an age of globalization as influencing reconciliation prospects in intractable disputes. Most of the participants in Detroit were Israelis and Palestinians who lived for many years in the Diaspora, whi…
Official and Illicit Arms Transfer Data in Southeast Asia
Description to be added
Hezbollah: A Proletarian Party with an Islamic Manifesto – A Sociopolitical Analysis of Islamist Populism in Lebanon and the Middle East
This article examines the rising contention between a global foreign policy promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East and Islamist rejectionism. It provides a sociopolitical analysis of the phenomena of radical Islamist politics while focusing on the experience of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It associates the growth of Hezbollah, a political movement seen in various forms in several countries, with social class dynamics that have been antagonised …
Should We Really “Force Them to be Free?” An Empirical Examination of Peceny's Liberalizing Intervention Thesis
In his article, entitled “Forcing Them to be Free,” Peceny (1999) presents and empirically tests an argument that while most U.S. military interventions are not successful in bringing about democracy, those cases of intervention in which the U.S. also pushes for “free and fair elections” are likely to produce long-term democratic outcomes in target countries. Our research challenges Peceny's work in two ways. First, we replicate his analysis, fin…
Rethinking Models of Civil War Settlement
The current study is a replication and expansion of an earlier piece by Hartzell, Hoddie, and Rothchild (2001) exploring civil war settlement characteristics and stability. Their research focused on the importance of territorial autonomy provisions and the role of third party guarantors in predicting settlement success and stability. They employed a model that controlled for such conflict characteristics as international system structure, nature …
Arms and Escalation in Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Sri Lanka
The impact of changes in arms acquisitions on subsequent escalation and de-escalation of ethnic conflicts is examined. The role of arms in civil wars has generally been neglected, perhaps because the role seems obvious, or because of the tendency of scholars to focus on the outbreak or end of ethnic conflict, rather than its middle course. Six arms scenarios are produced by the combination of actions taken by the government and an armed oppositio…
The Crisis of Federalism and Electoral Strategies in Iraq
After uprooting Saddam Hussein from power, establishing democracy in Iraq has been declared among the most important objectives of the U.S.-led Coalition. However, the Coalition has encountered complex ethnic and religious relations and resentment of foreign intervention in Iraq. These reactions reflect decades, even centuries, of divisive and antagonistic policies whose impacts continue to complicate and threaten coexistence and civil peace. The…
Policy-Making and Connections to Violence: A Case Study of India
This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may be…
Dimensions of Conflict Resolution in Ethnopolitical Disputes
In this introduction to the special issue, the various dimensions of approaches to conflict resolution in identity disputes are explored. The implementation of existing peace accords in countries troubled by domestic fighting turns out to be a knottier policy problem than expected and subject to lingering distrust and miscommunication. The role of two sets of factors in bringing about agreement and/or implementation is explored: grass-roots versu…
Patterns in Arms Acquisitions by Ethnic Groups in Conflict
Foreign Military Interventions and Domestic Disputes
Journal Article Foreign Military Interventions and Domestic Disputes Get access Frederic S. Pearson Frederic S. Pearson Center for International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri—St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 1974, Pages 259–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600156 Published: 01 September 1974
Geographic Proximity and Foreign Military Intervention
Proceeding from assumptions about interests and costs, two basic questions about the relation of foreign military intervention and geographic proximity are examined: (1) whether various types of intervening countries usually send troops to distant or nearby states; (2) whether certain types of military intervention are more likely to occur near to or far from the intervener. Data on categories of foreign military intervention in all regions from …
Hezbollah: A Proletarian Party with an Islamic Manifesto – A Sociopolitical Analysis of Islamist Populism in Lebanon and the Middle East
This article examines the rising contention between a global foreign policy promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East and Islamist rejectionism. It provides a sociopolitical analysis of the phenomena of radical Islamist politics while focusing on the experience of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It associates the growth of Hezbollah, a political movement seen in various forms in several countries, with social class dynamics that have been antagonised …
Rethinking Models of Civil War Settlement
The current study is a replication and expansion of an earlier piece by Hartzell, Hoddie, and Rothchild (2001) exploring civil war settlement characteristics and stability. Their research focused on the importance of territorial autonomy provisions and the role of third party guarantors in predicting settlement success and stability. They employed a model that controlled for such conflict characteristics as international system structure, nature …
Dimensions of Conflict Resolution in Ethnopolitical Disputes
In this introduction to the special issue, the various dimensions of approaches to conflict resolution in identity disputes are explored. The implementation of existing peace accords in countries troubled by domestic fighting turns out to be a knottier policy problem than expected and subject to lingering distrust and miscommunication. The role of two sets of factors in bringing about agreement and/or implementation is explored: grass-roots versu…
Major power politics and non-violent resistance movements
Non-violent movements are rarely confined to the borders of the societies in which they take place. International actors are prone to take a side in the face of such resistance. Yet knowledge is limited on external actors’ effects on outcomes of non-violent protests abroad. Thus, we zero in on the strategic logic behind major powers’ involvement decisions regarding such movements, and the impact those decisions have on campaign outcomes. We find …
Arms and Escalation in Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Sri Lanka
The impact of changes in arms acquisitions on subsequent escalation and de-escalation of ethnic conflicts is examined. The role of arms in civil wars has generally been neglected, perhaps because the role seems obvious, or because of the tendency of scholars to focus on the outbreak or end of ethnic conflict, rather than its middle course. Six arms scenarios are produced by the combination of actions taken by the government and an armed oppositio…
International military interventions: Identification and classification
International military intervention is the movement of troops or forces of one country into the territory or territorial waters of another country, or military action by troops already stationed by one country inside another, in the context of some political issue or dispute. As such it is a discrete event, or set of discrete events, persisting in time, entailing military action by officially designated armed forces to influence either domestic d…
Patterns in Arms Acquisitions by Ethnic Groups in Conflict
Should We Really “Force Them to be Free?” An Empirical Examination of Peceny's Liberalizing Intervention Thesis
In his article, entitled “Forcing Them to be Free,” Peceny (1999) presents and empirically tests an argument that while most U.S. military interventions are not successful in bringing about democracy, those cases of intervention in which the U.S. also pushes for “free and fair elections” are likely to produce long-term democratic outcomes in target countries. Our research challenges Peceny's work in two ways. First, we replicate his analysis, fin…
Developments in the Global Supply of Arms: Opportunity and Motivation
Likely trends in the supply side of the arms trade are examined, considering the opportunities and motives available to key actors and the changing international system that constrains their options. Among suppliers, the United States remains predominant, if somewhat more commercially than hegemonically oriented than in the past. Despite reassertive efforts and lower prices in the arms field, Russian export prospects are questionable, given uncer…
The Correlates of Arms Importation
The basic question of why nations import arms is addressed by identifying clusters of variables most closely correlated with arms import levels, both for the world's aggregate of countries and by region. From prior impressionistic studies of arms transfers a set of six hypothesized clusters is proposed, entailing: (1) national characteristics such as geography and population; (2) governmental characteristics such as regime type; (3) military char…
How to de-escalate dangerous nuclear weapons and force deployments in Europe
Amidst the war in Ukraine, it is important to raise the prospect and vision of creating mutual security guarantees and ridding Europe of its dangerous nuclear weapon systems and provocative force deployments. In view of reckless Kremlin rhetoric and aggressive military action in Russia’s so-called near abroad, it is time for renewed approaches to arms control. As the Ukraine situation plays out, Russia, the United States, and allies in the North …
The Collapse of Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: Breaking the barriers of fear and power
This article analyses Middle Eastern authoritarianism and the contemporary political transformations which have swept the region. It suggests that, given the uneven spread of reform and the selectiveness of international intervention, the prioritisation of Middle Eastern stability over democratic transformation, combined with local authoritarian regimes' ability to use excessive force against their own populations and insurgents, are responsible …
Foreign Military Intervention by Large and Small Powers 1
Steps toward Peace in Civil Wars in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Disaggregate Approach to Civil War Settlements
Regardless of the types of civil conflict settlements, all parties generally enter into some sorts of tacit or direct bargaining in the course of civil conflict, namely, in steps toward peace. In contrast to a basically static framework employed in much of existing literature on civil war settlements and mediation, this article proposes a disaggregate approach to dynamic and multi-phase processes in civil conflict termination via negotiations. We…
A Palestinian–Israeli public assembly and the American black church: Two grassroots efforts to build the foundations of a decent social order
This paper draws lessons from the role played by the black church in creating support for the US civil rights movement in relation to the struggle to involve the Palestinian and the Israeli people directly in the peacemaking efforts to resolve their tragic conflict. The civil rights struggle in both the US and South Africa eventually engaged large segments of the public in both productive debate and campaigning. The corresponding impetus now is t…
Civilian victimization and international military intervention in civil wars
Civil wars are particularly destructive and asymmetric in nature. As a result, humanitarian crises and episodes of one-sided violence against civilians are likely to emerge. In the post-Cold War era, human rights norms have been strengthened by a global commitment stating that nations have a responsibility to protect people against war crimes. Although the doctrine does not require military responses, as episodes of one-sided violence increase dr…
Weapons of War, Weapons of Peace: DDR Processes in Peacemaking
Recent trends in international responses to civil war and humanitarian crises highlight the growing importance of multilateral intervention by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Academics and practitioners agree that higher levels of cooperation should yield better outcomes, while the literature emphasizes the importance of commitment. Yet the question of how organizations collaborate with each other and local authorities remains largely unc…
Locational factors in citizen peace negotiations
The article offers a critical comparison between two extreme cases of the Minds of Peace Experiment: the Detroit round (May 2009) and the first round in Israel–Palestine (Beit Jala – August 2009). It explores the question of residential location in an age of globalization as influencing reconciliation prospects in intractable disputes. Most of the participants in Detroit were Israelis and Palestinians who lived for many years in the Diaspora, whi…
The Crisis of Federalism and Electoral Strategies in Iraq
After uprooting Saddam Hussein from power, establishing democracy in Iraq has been declared among the most important objectives of the U.S.-led Coalition. However, the Coalition has encountered complex ethnic and religious relations and resentment of foreign intervention in Iraq. These reactions reflect decades, even centuries, of divisive and antagonistic policies whose impacts continue to complicate and threaten coexistence and civil peace. The…
Policy-Making and Connections to Violence: A Case Study of India
This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may be…
The question of control in British defence sales policy
Journal Article The question of control in British defence sales policy Get access Frederic S. Pearson Frederic S. Pearson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Spring 1983, Pages 211–238, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619936 Published: 01 April 1983
Energy crisis and government regulations: Swedish and Dutch responses in 1973
Industrially developed and trade dependent states may be especially hard hit by international economic crises. It appears that such states’ governmental response to crises will depend on: traditions of economic planning; international trade and political connections; political pressures within the state; and traditions of business‐government relations. These factors determine the mix of direct planned government intervention, reliance on private …
Foreign Military Intervention by Large and Small Powers 1
Geographic Proximity and Foreign Military Intervention
Proceeding from assumptions about interests and costs, two basic questions about the relation of foreign military intervention and geographic proximity are examined: (1) whether various types of intervening countries usually send troops to distant or nearby states; (2) whether certain types of military intervention are more likely to occur near to or far from the intervener. Data on categories of foreign military intervention in all regions from …
Foreign Military Interventions and Domestic Disputes
Journal Article Foreign Military Interventions and Domestic Disputes Get access Frederic S. Pearson Frederic S. Pearson Center for International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri—St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 1974, Pages 259–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600156 Published: 01 September 1974
Policies, priorities, and event‐interactions: The need for distinctions in foreign policy research
The author argues that insufficient attention has been paid to clarifying the distinction between policy and events. Without such clarification the research cannot effectively measure and evaluate the results of specific foreign policies, nor provide policy makers with sufficient information on which to base future decisions. The author makes the point: “Researchers can monitor foreign policy actions and events, but policies themselves cannot be …
Energy crisis and government regulations: Swedish and Dutch responses in 1973
Industrially developed and trade dependent states may be especially hard hit by international economic crises. It appears that such states’ governmental response to crises will depend on: traditions of economic planning; international trade and political connections; political pressures within the state; and traditions of business‐government relations. These factors determine the mix of direct planned government intervention, reliance on private …
The question of control in British defence sales policy
Journal Article The question of control in British defence sales policy Get access Frederic S. Pearson Frederic S. Pearson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Spring 1983, Pages 211–238, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619936 Published: 01 April 1983
The global politics of arms sales
Journal Article The global politics of arms sales Get access The global politics of arms sales. By Andrew J. Pierre. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for Council on Foreign Relations. 1982. 352 pp. Index. £14.10. Pb.: £4.20. Frederic S. Pearson Frederic S. Pearson 1University of Missouri-St Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983, Page 729, h…
Necessary Evil: Perspectives on West German Arms Transfer Policies
The recent evolution of West German arms transfer policies is related to legal stipulations, socioeconomic interests, local politics, a need for anonymity in controversial dealings, and particularly to a more autonomous foreign policy. New 1982 guidelines allowed increased arms sales flexibility to conflict-ridden and strategic regions such as the Middle East. Despite government attempts to limit terrorists' access to arms, international arms pro…
International military interventions: Identification and classification
International military intervention is the movement of troops or forces of one country into the territory or territorial waters of another country, or military action by troops already stationed by one country inside another, in the context of some political issue or dispute. As such it is a discrete event, or set of discrete events, persisting in time, entailing military action by officially designated armed forces to influence either domestic d…
The Correlates of Arms Importation
The basic question of why nations import arms is addressed by identifying clusters of variables most closely correlated with arms import levels, both for the world's aggregate of countries and by region. From prior impressionistic studies of arms transfers a set of six hypothesized clusters is proposed, entailing: (1) national characteristics such as geography and population; (2) governmental characteristics such as regime type; (3) military char…
El mercado de armas en el periodo de la posguerra fría y los estados menos desarrollados
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Le marché des armes après la guerre froide et les pays les moins développés
Les projets pour limiter le commerce des armes se sont multipliés avee l'achèvement d'un bon nombre de contlits régionaux et la fin de la guerre froide. La guerre du Golfe a également fait évoluer les conditions de sécurité des pays les moins développés, et les principaux vendeurs d'armes ont diminué leurs aides économiques à l'exportation des armes. A partir de l'examen de nombreux cas régionaux, l'auteur conclut que l'avenir des politiques d'ar…
Developments in the Global Supply of Arms: Opportunity and Motivation
Likely trends in the supply side of the arms trade are examined, considering the opportunities and motives available to key actors and the changing international system that constrains their options. Among suppliers, the United States remains predominant, if somewhat more commercially than hegemonically oriented than in the past. Despite reassertive efforts and lower prices in the arms field, Russian export prospects are questionable, given uncer…
Patterns in Arms Acquisitions by Ethnic Groups in Conflict
Dimensions of Conflict Resolution in Ethnopolitical Disputes
In this introduction to the special issue, the various dimensions of approaches to conflict resolution in identity disputes are explored. The implementation of existing peace accords in countries troubled by domestic fighting turns out to be a knottier policy problem than expected and subject to lingering distrust and miscommunication. The role of two sets of factors in bringing about agreement and/or implementation is explored: grass-roots versu…
Policy-Making and Connections to Violence: A Case Study of India
This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may be…
The Crisis of Federalism and Electoral Strategies in Iraq
After uprooting Saddam Hussein from power, establishing democracy in Iraq has been declared among the most important objectives of the U.S.-led Coalition. However, the Coalition has encountered complex ethnic and religious relations and resentment of foreign intervention in Iraq. These reactions reflect decades, even centuries, of divisive and antagonistic policies whose impacts continue to complicate and threaten coexistence and civil peace. The…
Rethinking Models of Civil War Settlement
The current study is a replication and expansion of an earlier piece by Hartzell, Hoddie, and Rothchild (2001) exploring civil war settlement characteristics and stability. Their research focused on the importance of territorial autonomy provisions and the role of third party guarantors in predicting settlement success and stability. They employed a model that controlled for such conflict characteristics as international system structure, nature …
Arms and Escalation in Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Sri Lanka
The impact of changes in arms acquisitions on subsequent escalation and de-escalation of ethnic conflicts is examined. The role of arms in civil wars has generally been neglected, perhaps because the role seems obvious, or because of the tendency of scholars to focus on the outbreak or end of ethnic conflict, rather than its middle course. Six arms scenarios are produced by the combination of actions taken by the government and an armed oppositio…
Hezbollah: A Proletarian Party with an Islamic Manifesto – A Sociopolitical Analysis of Islamist Populism in Lebanon and the Middle East
This article examines the rising contention between a global foreign policy promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East and Islamist rejectionism. It provides a sociopolitical analysis of the phenomena of radical Islamist politics while focusing on the experience of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It associates the growth of Hezbollah, a political movement seen in various forms in several countries, with social class dynamics that have been antagonised …
Should We Really “Force Them to be Free?” An Empirical Examination of Peceny's Liberalizing Intervention Thesis
In his article, entitled “Forcing Them to be Free,” Peceny (1999) presents and empirically tests an argument that while most U.S. military interventions are not successful in bringing about democracy, those cases of intervention in which the U.S. also pushes for “free and fair elections” are likely to produce long-term democratic outcomes in target countries. Our research challenges Peceny's work in two ways. First, we replicate his analysis, fin…
Official and Illicit Arms Transfer Data in Southeast Asia
Description to be added
Unilateral and Multilateral Military Intervention: Effects on Stability and Security
The success rate of military intervention has traditionally been judged by its ability to end conflict and/or serve intervener security interests. However, contemporary military intervention in troubled or collapsing states is often intended not only to increase security but also to establish conditions in which political reform or reconstruction can proceed. Judging the success of intervention therefore means isolating and measuring its impact o…
Steps toward Peace in Civil Wars in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Disaggregate Approach to Civil War Settlements
Regardless of the types of civil conflict settlements, all parties generally enter into some sorts of tacit or direct bargaining in the course of civil conflict, namely, in steps toward peace. In contrast to a basically static framework employed in much of existing literature on civil war settlements and mediation, this article proposes a disaggregate approach to dynamic and multi-phase processes in civil conflict termination via negotiations. We…
A Palestinian–Israeli public assembly and the American black church: Two grassroots efforts to build the foundations of a decent social order
This paper draws lessons from the role played by the black church in creating support for the US civil rights movement in relation to the struggle to involve the Palestinian and the Israeli people directly in the peacemaking efforts to resolve their tragic conflict. The civil rights struggle in both the US and South Africa eventually engaged large segments of the public in both productive debate and campaigning. The corresponding impetus now is t…
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