Jerome Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 347230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-5630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601
Good governance during an epidemic looked about the same in 1600 as it does today. It involved the coordination of responses among leaders, disseminating the best medical information, counting the sick, figuring out who had been exposed, ensuring sanitation, and generating regular reports. Bad actors, Ruth MacKay’s fascinating study shows, have been pulling the same unfortunate stunts for centuries: blaming vulnerable people for spreading the dis…
Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
Every nation has narratives or stories it tells itself about its history but which typically contain factually false or misleading mythologies that often result in devastating consequences for itself and for others. In the case of Israel and its indispensable ally, the United States, the central mythology is “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” as the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban famously said in a 1973 statement that has b…
Containment, surveillance and biopower in early modern Spain
Diccionario herbario de textos antiguos y premodernos
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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
This ambitious and far-ranging study of the dramatic cultures of early modern Spain and England juxtaposes, in a series of “asymmetrical comparisons,” the theater histories of Madrid and London, Seville and Bristol, Mexico City and Dublin, and finally Puebla and Williamsburg. Using an “Atlantic World approach,” Ball pays particular attention to the ways in which municipalities on both sides of the Atlantic used profits from plays to fund hospital…
Arte y ciencia en el barroco español. Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultura visual
Being beyond: The Black Legend and how we got over it
We used to think it was the job of a historian of Spanish science to combat the negative evaluations of Hispanic cultures that came to be known as the Black Legend. Paradoxically, attempts to amend dominant narratives of the history of science (such as the Scientific Revolution) so that they might accommodate Spain bolstered the very stories we meant to dismantle. Caring about the Black Legend deformed the history we were trying to write and neve…
Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain
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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire 108 (Figure 5.1, p. 126). 2 As well as expanding our knowledge of the González family, these two documents raise wider implications for the early modern classification, representation and reception of hypertrichosis sufferers.Melanchthon's text illuminates connections between hypertrichosis and the demonic, and Happel's image situates the González family within the medical context of similar cas…
Terrorism and the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
Just War Theory and the 2008–09 Gaza Invasion
July 01 2013 Just War Theory and the 2008–09 Gaza Invasion Davis Brown, Davis Brown Davis Brown is an assistant professor of political science at Maryville University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael L. Gross, Michael L. Gross Michael L. Gross is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Tamar Meisels, Tamar Meisels…
Un Dios presente en la naturaleza. Estudio sobre teología y filosofía en la obra de Miguel Servet
Bermudo del Pino, Rafael. Un Dios presente en la naturaleza. Estudio sobre teología y filosofía en la obra de Miguel Servet. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 2011, pp. 5-186), on Érudit
Just War Moral Philosophy and the 2008–09 Israeli Campaign in Gaza
The 2008–09 Israeli military campaign in Gaza, commonly known as Operation Cast Lead, is best understood in the context of Israel's “iron wall” strategy. During the 1930s, the strategy emphasized the need for overwhelming military power to break Arab resistance to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; since the creation of Israel in 1948, it has continued to be at the core of Israeli policies in the overall Arab-Israeli conflict. From…
Zionism, the Jewish State, and an Israeli-Palestinian Settlement: An Opinion Piece
Journal Article Zionism, the Jewish State, and an Israeli—Palestinian Settlement: An Opinion Piece Get access Jerome Slater Jerome Slater JEROME SLATER is emeritus professor of political science at SUNY/Buffalo, currently holding the position of University Research Scholar. He is a long-time contributor to Political Science Quarterly, and is at work on a book on the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Search for other works by this autho…
Scenes of Mediation: Staging Medicine in the Spanish Interludes
This article examines the representation of medicine and medical practitioners in the dramatic interludes (entremeses) of early modern Spain, highlighting the way these short works dramatise the contact between academic and popular medical practices. Dramatic interludes, frequently ignored by historians of literature, constitute a valuable resource for the historian interested in seventeenth-century representations of medicine and medical practit…
The Two Books of Mearsheimer and Walt
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's controversial book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 1 1 “The Israel Lobby,” London Review of Books, 23 March 2006; John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt,The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007), hereafter cited in text. Full disclosure: Mearsheimer and Walt asked me to comment on the book manuscript prior to its publication. (hereafter, Israel Lobby), is one of …
On the Ethics of War and Terrorism by Uwe Steinhoff
Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The New York Times versus Haaretz , 2000–06
The prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain poor, largely because of Israeli rigidity as well as Palestinian policies and internal conflicts. The United States has failed to use its considerable influence with Israel to seek the necessary changes in Israeli policies, instead providing the country with almost unconditional support. The consequences have been disastrous for the Palestinians, for Israeli securit…
History as an Ekphrastic Genre in Early Modern Spain
History as an Ekphrastic Genre in Early Modern Spain John Slater University of Colorado at Boulder As a rhetorical figure, ekphrasis creates both aesthetic immediacy—by appealing explicitly to our sense of sight—and remove, by suggesting a description not of life but of art. It is at the same time vivid and a copy of a copy. In practice, ekphrasis tends to play games with temporal distance, too; Aeneas' shield is itself ancient, but the scenes Vi…
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes
Frequent and complex representations of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature offer symbolically rich and often contradictory images. Steven Wagschal examines these occurrences by illuminating the theme of jealousy in the plays of Lope de Vega, the prose of Miguel de Cervantes, and the complex poetry of Luis de Gongora. Noting the prevalence of this emotion in their work, he reveals what jealousy offered these writers at a time when Spain w…
Tragic Choices in the War on Terrorism: Should We Try to Regulate and Control Torture
Journal Article Tragic Choices in the War on Terrorism: Should We Try to Regulate and Control Torture? Get access Jerome Slater Jerome Slater JEROME SLATER, a frequent contributor to Political Science Quarterly, is a university research scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is working on a history of U.S. policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Minerva's Aviary: Philosophy at Toronto, 1843-2003
Philosophy has been taught at the University of Toronto, and its predecessor King's College, since 1843. While much has changed in that time, the university's Department of Philosophy remains one of Canada's preeminent institutions for philosophical instruction. In Minerva's Aviary, John G. Slater documents the history of Toronto's Philosophy Department from its founding to contemporary times. In the early years, the teaching of philosophy at the…
The Cambridge history of philosophy, 1870-1945
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
Journal Article The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror Get access The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004. 160 pp. $22.95. Jerome M. Slater Jerome M. Slater State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 4, Winter 2004, Pages 684–686, htt…
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Journal Article Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Get access Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. 446 pp. $30.00. Jerome Slater Jerome Slater State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 2, Summer 2003, Pages …
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Nonintervention and Human Rights
Long a part of the theory and practice of international politics, the principle of nonintervention has traditionally admitted few exceptions. Recently, however, arguments have been advanced that seek to expand the grounds for armed intervention to include a wide range of situations in which violations of human rights have occurred. This paper argues that although in principle the moral justification for intervention to protect human rights is bro…
Dominos in Central America: Will They Fall? Does It Matter
The Organization of American States and the Dominican Crisis
In recent years political scientists have given increasing attention to the phenomenon of legitimacy, defined, following Richard Merelman, as the quality of “oughtness” perceived by members of a political system to inhere in the system's authorities and/or regime. The more the regime is regarded as morally proper and elicits generalized favorable attitudes from its constituency—i.e., is perceived to be legitimate—the more the members are predispo…
What Went Wrong? The Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
The Domino Theory and International Politics: The Case of Vietnam
I would like to acknowledge the perceptive comments and suggestions of David Goldfischer, Terry Nardin, and Stephen Van Evera
Being beyond: The Black Legend and how we got over it
We used to think it was the job of a historian of Spanish science to combat the negative evaluations of Hispanic cultures that came to be known as the Black Legend. Paradoxically, attempts to amend dominant narratives of the history of science (such as the Scientific Revolution) so that they might accommodate Spain bolstered the very stories we meant to dismantle. Caring about the Black Legend deformed the history we were trying to write and neve…
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire 108 (Figure 5.1, p. 126). 2 As well as expanding our knowledge of the González family, these two documents raise wider implications for the early modern classification, representation and reception of hypertrichosis sufferers.Melanchthon's text illuminates connections between hypertrichosis and the demonic, and Happel's image situates the González family within the medical context of similar cas…
The Two Books of Mearsheimer and Walt
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's controversial book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 1 1 “The Israel Lobby,” London Review of Books, 23 March 2006; John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt,The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007), hereafter cited in text. Full disclosure: Mearsheimer and Walt asked me to comment on the book manuscript prior to its publication. (hereafter, Israel Lobby), is one of …
Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The New York Times versus Haaretz , 2000–06
The prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain poor, largely because of Israeli rigidity as well as Palestinian policies and internal conflicts. The United States has failed to use its considerable influence with Israel to seek the necessary changes in Israeli policies, instead providing the country with almost unconditional support. The consequences have been disastrous for the Palestinians, for Israeli securit…
Lost Opportunities for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israel and Syria, 1948–2001
International Security - Volume 27, Number 1, Summer 2002
Reassessing Third World Interventionism: A Response to Macdonald
The Superpowers and an Arab-Israeli Political Settlement: The Cold War Years
From about 1950 until the end of the cold war in the late 1980s the Arab-Israeli conflict became entangled in the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The prevalent view in the United States was that the Soviet Union sought to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict in order to drive the West from the Middle East and secure its own domination over the area. From this perspective, Soviet ambitions were antithetical to the prosp…
The United States and Latin America: The New Radical Orthodoxy Latin America and the United States: The Changing Political Realities . Julie Cotler , Richard R. Fagen
Apolitical Warrior or Soldier-Statesman: The Military and the Foreign Policy Process in the Post-Vietnam Era
The United States, the Organization of American States, and the Dominican Republic, 1961–1963
The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion is now almost universally considered to be “one of those rare politico-military events—a perfect failure.” One of the conclusions usually derived from that affair is the general inadvisability of direct United States intervention in the internal affairs of other nations to bring about desired changes in their domestic political structures. Almost simultaneously, however, the United States was doing just that in the D…
Just War Theory and the 2008–09 Gaza Invasion
July 01 2013 Just War Theory and the 2008–09 Gaza Invasion Davis Brown, Davis Brown Davis Brown is an assistant professor of political science at Maryville University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael L. Gross, Michael L. Gross Michael L. Gross is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Tamar Meisels, Tamar Meisels…
Just War Moral Philosophy and the 2008–09 Israeli Campaign in Gaza
The 2008–09 Israeli military campaign in Gaza, commonly known as Operation Cast Lead, is best understood in the context of Israel's “iron wall” strategy. During the 1930s, the strategy emphasized the need for overwhelming military power to break Arab resistance to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; since the creation of Israel in 1948, it has continued to be at the core of Israeli policies in the overall Arab-Israeli conflict. From…
Zionism, the Jewish State, and an Israeli-Palestinian Settlement: An Opinion Piece
Journal Article Zionism, the Jewish State, and an Israeli—Palestinian Settlement: An Opinion Piece Get access Jerome Slater Jerome Slater JEROME SLATER is emeritus professor of political science at SUNY/Buffalo, currently holding the position of University Research Scholar. He is a long-time contributor to Political Science Quarterly, and is at work on a book on the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Search for other works by this autho…
Tragic Choices in the War on Terrorism: Should We Try to Regulate and Control Torture
Journal Article Tragic Choices in the War on Terrorism: Should We Try to Regulate and Control Torture? Get access Jerome Slater Jerome Slater JEROME SLATER, a frequent contributor to Political Science Quarterly, is a university research scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is working on a history of U.S. policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Minerva's Aviary: Philosophy at Toronto, 1843-2003
Philosophy has been taught at the University of Toronto, and its predecessor King's College, since 1843. While much has changed in that time, the university's Department of Philosophy remains one of Canada's preeminent institutions for philosophical instruction. In Minerva's Aviary, John G. Slater documents the history of Toronto's Philosophy Department from its founding to contemporary times. In the early years, the teaching of philosophy at the…
Ideology vs. The National Interest: Bush, Sharon, and U.S. Policy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A Palestinian State and Israeli Security
In the aftermath of the 1991 war against Iraq, the prospects for a final, comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict are mixed. The conditions have never been more favorable: the offensive military capabilities of Iraq, the region's most powerful and radical state, have been eliminated, thus removing the main security danger to Israel; the prestige and leverage of the United States is at its peak, not only with Israel but also with the…
Vietnam Revised
Several recent studies of the Vietnam War challenge the generally accepted view that American policy in the war was a political and moral failure. It is now argued that “the system worked” because U.S. policy reflected a democratically formulated consensus, and that the military conduct of the war does not warrant the moral condemnation it has received. Each of these arguments is vitiated by factual and logical errors. The first reveals a failure…
The United States, the Organization of American States, and the Dominican Republic, 1961–1963
The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion is now almost universally considered to be “one of those rare politico-military events—a perfect failure.” One of the conclusions usually derived from that affair is the general inadvisability of direct United States intervention in the internal affairs of other nations to bring about desired changes in their domestic political structures. Almost simultaneously, however, the United States was doing just that in the D…
The OAS and United States Foreign Policy
The Decline of the OAS
In retrospect, curiously enough, the period of the greatest political vitality for the inter-American system seems to have been the 1940s and 1950s. Curiously, because during this period the organization was rent with most of the same conflicts that exist in heightened form today, and oas participants and observers alike hardly thought they were living through a golden era of inter-American co-operation. Yet, despite the decline of the goodwill t…
The Organization of American States and the Dominican Crisis
In recent years political scientists have given increasing attention to the phenomenon of legitimacy, defined, following Richard Merelman, as the quality of “oughtness” perceived by members of a political system to inhere in the system's authorities and/or regime. The more the regime is regarded as morally proper and elicits generalized favorable attitudes from its constituency—i.e., is perceived to be legitimate—the more the members are predispo…
The OAS and United States Foreign Policy
The Dominican Republic: Nation in Transition
Intervention and Negotiation: The United States and the Dominican Revolution
Journal Article Intervention and Negotiation: The United States and the Dominican Revolution. By Jerome Slater. (New York: Harper & Row, 1970. xviii + 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $7.95.) Get access Kenneth J. Grieb Kenneth J. Grieb Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 1, June 1971, Page 228, htt…
The United States and the Trujillo Regime. G. Pope Atkins , Larman C. Wilson
Civil Strife in Latin America: A Legal History of U. S. Involvement
Civil Strife in Latin America: A Legal History of U.S. Involvement Kane William Everett, Civil Strife in Latin America: A Legal History of U.S. Involvement. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. ix, 240 pp. $10. Jerome Slater Jerome Slater Professor Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal His…
Is United States Foreign Policy "Imperialist" or "Imperial
For most of postwar period dominant scholarly consensus on United States role in international politics closely paralleled image that policy makers themselves held: United States was a defensive, status-quo power seeking to contain revolutionary or simply imperialist expansionism of Soviet-led communism. The dominant critique of United States foreign policy operated well within this framework of assumptions; one common argument was that United St…
The United States and Latin America: The New Radical Orthodoxy Latin America and the United States: The Changing Political Realities . Julie Cotler , Richard R. Fagen
Apolitical Warrior or Soldier-Statesman: The Military and the Foreign Policy Process in the Post-Vietnam Era
Re‐examining the Abm Moratorium: Population Defense Reconsidered: Is the ABM Inconsistent With Stability
The argument of this essay is that current U.S. strategic postures and weapons systems, based essentially on mutual assured destruction (MAD), are defective, in that they over‐deter and under‐defend. MAD provides far more than sufficient deterrence against deliberate, full‐scale nuclear war launched by the government of the Soviet Union, but provides little deterrence and no defense against the far more likely nuclear catastrophe of the future: a…
Vietnam Revised
Several recent studies of the Vietnam War challenge the generally accepted view that American policy in the war was a political and moral failure. It is now argued that “the system worked” because U.S. policy reflected a democratically formulated consensus, and that the military conduct of the war does not warrant the moral condemnation it has received. Each of these arguments is vitiated by factual and logical errors. The first reveals a failure…
Arms and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Can SDI Provide a Defense
Journal Article Can SDI Provide a Defense? Get access Jerome Slater, Jerome Slater JEROME SLATER is a professor of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of a number of books and articles on international politics and American foreign policy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Goldfischer David Goldfischer DAVID GOLDFISCHER, a recent doctoral fellow at the Bro…
Nonintervention and Human Rights
Long a part of the theory and practice of international politics, the principle of nonintervention has traditionally admitted few exceptions. Recently, however, arguments have been advanced that seek to expand the grounds for armed intervention to include a wide range of situations in which violations of human rights have occurred. This paper argues that although in principle the moral justification for intervention to protect human rights is bro…
Dominos in Central America: Will They Fall? Does It Matter
Award Recipients
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The Superpowers and an Arab-Israeli Political Settlement: The Cold War Years
From about 1950 until the end of the cold war in the late 1980s the Arab-Israeli conflict became entangled in the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The prevalent view in the United States was that the Soviet Union sought to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict in order to drive the West from the Middle East and secure its own domination over the area. From this perspective, Soviet ambitions were antithetical to the prosp…
Shyam Bhatia, Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East (London: (Routledge, 1988). Pp. 119
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A Palestinian State and Israeli Security
In the aftermath of the 1991 war against Iraq, the prospects for a final, comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict are mixed. The conditions have never been more favorable: the offensive military capabilities of Iraq, the region's most powerful and radical state, have been eliminated, thus removing the main security danger to Israel; the prestige and leverage of the United States is at its peak, not only with Israel but also with the…
Reassessing Third World Interventionism: A Response to Macdonald
Michael J. Cohen, Truman and Israel (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 1990). Pp. 355
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Response to Douglas J. Macdonald
A C DO N A L D MAKES two major arguments in his reply to my critique of his article, A n ti-In te rven tion ism and Study of American Foreign Policy in Third World. (Security Studies 2, no. 2, Winter 1992, pp. 225-46) In part one he criticizes my discussion of domino theory, arguing that far from refuting domino theory, I have in fact confirmed it by providing evidence that u.s. interventionism often works. Thus, whereas I claim that failure ofco…
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