Daniel N Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 323028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel N Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel N |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Balkan Imbroglio: Politics and Security in Southeastern Europe
In This Issue
World Shift: Interests, Norms and Identities
Globocracy
Transatlantic transmutations
The transatlantic chasm is formidable and deeply embedded in different conceptions of actors, means, and motives in the international arena. At Prague and beyond, NATO and EU enlargement will be secondary to the real need: redefining a Euroatlantic community
Armies, Security, and Democracy in Southeastern Europe
Armed forces, defense ministries, and broader national security structures sometimes resist political accountability and guidance. In other cases, they are penetrated and manipulated by political forces. What explains these variations of "politicization"? Using the case studies of postcommunist Romania and Bulgaria, this article offers the preliminary notion that previous political or economic prominence (in a prior authoritarian system) is a cri…
Language, identity and war
How are language, identity and war related? This exploratory essay probes the conceptual and logical connections among these three elemental factors of human existence, offers thoughts about an alternative discourse, and takes a look at suggestive data regarding the tie between violence and identity. I posit that who we are, what we say and when we fight are inseparable from one another. In this argumentative essay, language is seen as forming a …
Democracy by the Book
Democracy on the Run
A Common Foreign Policy for Europe? . John Peterson , Helen Sjursen
Post-Communist Insecurity
NATO members must take a far more holistic approach to European and Eurasian security, lest excluded states feel threatened and become ripe for demagogues opposed to democracy
Nato’s Metamorphosis and Its New Members
NATO’s efforts to reinvent itself for a post–cold war world hinge upon the successful integration of its new members. Domestic politics in the candidate states, their role within the alliance, and their contribution to NATO are important indicators of that integrative process
Civil Armies, Civil Societies, and Nato's Enlargement
As NATO's membership and function widen, it transits from a "latent war community" to something akin to an international regime aimed at collective security. During and after such a process, successful integration into the "new" alliance will have little to do with a state's military contribution or strategic advantage. Instead, principal emphasis will be placed on how a state and its army behave. This discussion concerns the behavioral standards…
Hungary and Its Neighbors: Security and Ethnic Minorities
Good neighbors are rare. Those who are most proximate might offer the potential for mutual assistance and reassurance. Mistrust and rivalry, however, seem endemic among individuals and groups sharing space and resources. Schopenhauer's simile refers to porcupines who huddle together in the winter to keep warm, but separate as they feel each other's quills, until they discover “a mean distance at which they could most tolerably exist.” Referring t…
Post‐communist Europe's new left
After the first round of Russian Presidential elections in 1996, the Central Electoral Commission Chairman goes to President Yeltsin and says that he has good news and bad news. ‘Give me the bad news first,’ sighs the President. ‘Well, the bad news is that Zyuganov got 60 percent of the vote,’ said the Chairman. ‘That's terrible!’ exclaims Yeltsin. ‘But, what's the good news?’ the President asks. ‘Well, sir, you got 75 percent.’ Jokes like this r…
Threats and capacities: Great powers and global insecurity
Des armes à profusion: La dissémination des matériels militaires dans des régions instables
Cet article est centré sur trois grands thèmes. L'auteur s'efforce, d'abord, de repérer les itinéraires suivis par les armes accumulées du temps de la guerre froide, qui se déversent aujourd'hui sur les régions en proie aux conflits d'après la guerre froide. Ces transferts d'armes en intensifient indubitablement la violence. Deuxièmement, il se demande si les événements survenant en Europe post-communiste tendent à confirmer ou à infirmer l'hypot…
America and collective security in Europe
East European Security Reconsidered
Explores threats to the security of post-Communist Eastern Europe and examines the wider European framework in which a democratic transition might proceed without ethnic antagonism. The book is a result of a meeting of experts from the United States, Canada and Europe in June 1992
The Comparative Politics of Eastern Europe
During 1989, as Eastern Europe's communist regimes abdicated power in the face of popular coups, Daniel Nelson was asked by a journalist if such changes meant a career change for scholars of communist systems. He answered affirmatively: if such scholars had examined these regimes only as communist systems; yet, for scholars who had studied politics in the arena of Eastern Europe, he said, a full and challenging career lay ahead. This speculation …
Democracy, markets and security in Eastern Europe
Apathy and the Birth of Democracy: The Polish Struggle
Apathy, from the Greek words meaning "w ithout feeling," is at once a term denoting an individual's impassivity or indifference and a form of collective political behavior. Our concern is the la tter form of apathy in Poland from the Solidarity period of 1980-81 to the present
The costs of demilitarization in the USSR and Eastern Europe
Europe's Unstable East
Balkan Imbroglio: Politics and Security in Southeastern Europe
Security in the Balkans the Yugoslav precipice new politics and the army in Bulgaria no longer tyranny, not yet democracy Romania's perilous path after Ceausescu Turkish uncertainties - domestic and foreign policy identities in the 1990s Athenian questions conclusion - Balkan pasts, Balkan futures
Political Convergence: An Empirical Assessment
When detente emerged as the focal point of American foreign policy in the early 1970's, the issue of whether or not communist political systems were becoming more like Western democracies over time (i.e., “converging”) was raised. This paper assesses political scientists' efforts to analyze such a hypotheses, particularly the implication that socioeconomic changes called “development” and “modernization” co-vary with fundamental political change.…
Apathy and the Birth of Democracy: The Polish Struggle
Apathy, from the Greek words meaning "w ithout feeling," is at once a term denoting an individual's impassivity or indifference and a form of collective political behavior. Our concern is the la tter form of apathy in Poland from the Solidarity period of 1980-81 to the present
Charisma, Control, and Coercion: The Dilemma of Communist Leadership
Local Politics in Communist Countries
There are many reasons why it is important to study local politics -- political culture, government, political process -- in Communist party states. As in all politics, local politics in Communist party states are the political articulation of the local community. This is the political arena where policies concerning local issues are formulated by the officials. This is where the officials are approached by citizens with their particular demands.…
Europe's Unstable East
Romania
Dilemmas of Local Politics in Communist States
Socioeconomic and Political Change in Communist Europe
In this article, the author tests an hypothesis central to comparative politics and, increasingly, to the study of communist systems—namely, that political change covaries with socioeconomic changes often called "development" and "modernization." Nine European communist states are ranked according to their socioeconomic levels and rates of socioeconomic change on the basis of aggregate data for a 20-year period. Five political variables are then …
Transatlantic transmutations
The transatlantic chasm is formidable and deeply embedded in different conceptions of actors, means, and motives in the international arena. At Prague and beyond, NATO and EU enlargement will be secondary to the real need: redefining a Euroatlantic community
Post-Communist Insecurity
NATO members must take a far more holistic approach to European and Eurasian security, lest excluded states feel threatened and become ripe for demagogues opposed to democracy
Civil Armies, Civil Societies, and Nato's Enlargement
As NATO's membership and function widen, it transits from a "latent war community" to something akin to an international regime aimed at collective security. During and after such a process, successful integration into the "new" alliance will have little to do with a state's military contribution or strategic advantage. Instead, principal emphasis will be placed on how a state and its army behave. This discussion concerns the behavioral standards…
America and collective security in Europe
East European Security Reconsidered
Explores threats to the security of post-Communist Eastern Europe and examines the wider European framework in which a democratic transition might proceed without ethnic antagonism. The book is a result of a meeting of experts from the United States, Canada and Europe in June 1992
The Comparative Politics of Eastern Europe
During 1989, as Eastern Europe's communist regimes abdicated power in the face of popular coups, Daniel Nelson was asked by a journalist if such changes meant a career change for scholars of communist systems. He answered affirmatively: if such scholars had examined these regimes only as communist systems; yet, for scholars who had studied politics in the arena of Eastern Europe, he said, a full and challenging career lay ahead. This speculation …
The Worker & Political Alienation in Communist Europe
Will the quest for "developed socialism" arouse workers in communist states to make demands which cannot be met and which, if at all met, would encourage further demands? Are the regimes engaged in this quest inviting political instability? Using examples and data from three countries in Eastern Europe, Professor Nelson tends to the view that the pursuit of modernization in Yugoslavia and Romania is likely to generate the same pressures as we hav…
Leninists and Political Inequalities: The Nonrevolutionary Politics of Communist States
Successful revolutionaries become rulers and bureaucrats. In the latter roles, Leninists have engaged in practices similar in all political systems insofar as they preserve political inequalities. Political inequalities imply a differentiation of access to power in policymaking, and thus exist in all polities. But for revolutionary movements or organizations, legitimacy turns on expectations for socioeconomic and political progress, usually seen …
Political Terrorism. Paul Wilkinson
Organs of the State in Romania
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Issues in Local Communist Politics: The Romanian Case
Issues in Local Communist Politics: The Romanian Case
IT IS, perhaps, truism of politics that capital cities do not reflect accurately nature of political life in any country. Whether or not we can make that assumption for communist political systems is difficult to say, since local politics in such countries has received relatively little attention. Until recently, our knowledge about central committees, politburos, and councils of ministers far exceeded what we knew about citizen's contact and int…
Socioeconomic and Political Change in Communist Europe
In this article, the author tests an hypothesis central to comparative politics and, increasingly, to the study of communist systems—namely, that political change covaries with socioeconomic changes often called "development" and "modernization." Nine European communist states are ranked according to their socioeconomic levels and rates of socioeconomic change on the basis of aggregate data for a 20-year period. Five political variables are then …
Political Convergence: An Empirical Assessment
When detente emerged as the focal point of American foreign policy in the early 1970's, the issue of whether or not communist political systems were becoming more like Western democracies over time (i.e., “converging”) was raised. This paper assesses political scientists' efforts to analyze such a hypotheses, particularly the implication that socioeconomic changes called “development” and “modernization” co-vary with fundamental political change.…
Background Characteristics of Local Communist Elites: Change vs. Continuity in the Romanian Case
In view of the growing pluralist tendencies within world communism, variations in the political practices of individual Communist countries have become important subjects of scholarly investigation. Daniel Nelson has had the rare opportunity of conducting interviews with forty-two persons occupying positions at various levels of local and county administrations in Romania. His research is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the proces…
Dilemmas of Local Politics in Communist States
Workers in a workers’ state: Participation in Romania
Soviet Leadership in Transition. Jerry F. Hough Leaders of Revolution. Mostafa Rejai , Kay Phillips
Romania in the 1980s
Vertical Integration and Political Control in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Romanian Cases
The legitimacy of ruling Communist parties rests, in large part, on their alleged identity with the working masses. Ties to the citizenry are crucial for these parties if they are to retain Marxist credentials and, thereby, their rationale for taking power and maintaining an authoritarian system. All political systems, authoritarian ones included, seek willing obedience from citizens if for no other reason than efficiency. But as a subset of auth…
The Worker & Political Alienation in Communist Europe
Will the quest for "developed socialism" arouse workers in communist states to make demands which cannot be met and which, if at all met, would encourage further demands? Are the regimes engaged in this quest inviting political instability? Using examples and data from three countries in Eastern Europe, Professor Nelson tends to the view that the pursuit of modernization in Yugoslavia and Romania is likely to generate the same pressures as we hav…
Leninists and Political Inequalities: The Nonrevolutionary Politics of Communist States
Successful revolutionaries become rulers and bureaucrats. In the latter roles, Leninists have engaged in practices similar in all political systems insofar as they preserve political inequalities. Political inequalities imply a differentiation of access to power in policymaking, and thus exist in all polities. But for revolutionary movements or organizations, legitimacy turns on expectations for socioeconomic and political progress, usually seen …
Local Politics in Communist Countries
There are many reasons why it is important to study local politics -- political culture, government, political process -- in Communist party states. As in all politics, local politics in Communist party states are the political articulation of the local community. This is the political arena where policies concerning local issues are formulated by the officials. This is where the officials are approached by citizens with their particular demands.…
Local Politics in Communist Countries
Journal Article Local Politics in Communist Countries. Get access Local Politics in Communist Countries. Edited by Nelson Daniel N.. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1980. Pp. 230. George Ginsburgs George Ginsburgs *Member, Board of Editors. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 31, Issue 3, Summer 1983, Pages 555–557, https://doi.org/10.2307/840001 Pu…
Recognizing Complexity in Eastern Europe: A Case for Differentiating Among Communist States
Although Moscow's security interests define the limits of foreign policy behavior and domestic liberalization in Eastern Europe. American relations with communist Europe in the 1960s and 1970s differentiated between and among member states of the Warsaw Pact. A policy of differential relations with communist Europe is a policy of sensitivity to complexity—to the differences between, for example, the role of Romania vis-à-vis the German Democratic…
Charisma, Control, and Coercion: The Dilemma of Communist Leadership
Empirical Estimates of 'Reliability' in the Warsaw Pact
Le fiasco politique de la Roumanie
Romania's political demise During the first decade and a half of Nicolae Ceausescu's rule in Romania, his regime found favor in the West because of its distinctive foreign and defense policies that suggested an opportunity for Western interests within the Warsaw Pact. Particularly in the 1980s, this image has evaporated, and virtually the entire group of CSCE participants now recognizes the Ceausescu government as having committed serious human r…
Outside Moscow. Donna Bahry
Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge
L'abîme yougoslave
La Yougoslavie est au bord du gouffre. Les rivalités ethniques et l'effondrement économique sont exacerbés par l'immobilisme politique. Au niveau républicain, la vie politique est dorénavant dominée par le nationalisme ethnique tandis que la Ligue des communistes yougoslaves a perdu son unité au niveau fédéral. Cette accumulation de graves problèmes a perturbé la réalisation des authentiques réformes économiques entreprises en 1989-1990 par le pr…
Romania
Apathy and the Birth of Democracy: The Polish Struggle
Apathy, from the Greek words meaning "w ithout feeling," is at once a term denoting an individual's impassivity or indifference and a form of collective political behavior. Our concern is the la tter form of apathy in Poland from the Solidarity period of 1980-81 to the present
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