Christopher Mitchell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620079 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher Mitchell |
| PRENOMES | Christopher |
| SOBRENOME | Mitchell |
| ASSINATURA | MITCHELL C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6523-0382 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Illiberal’ Peace and the Nature of ‘Illiberality’
This article focuses on an old type of imposed peace settlement which has been enjoying something of a revival in the past decade and has challenged the dominant “liberal peace” model as a way of ending violence in a conflict. It seeks to clarify what is meant by an “illiberal” or authoritarian peace by re-examining and contrasting the essential characters of a liberal peace. The study uses the series of peace agreements in Central America and el…
Confronting Peace
United We Stand
Banking union is arguably the most important EU reform since the Maastricht Treaty, transferring substantial authority to European regulators and taking a significant step toward fiscal union. However, it remains incomplete, as Germany has repeatedly blocked progress on the European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS). This opposition contrasts with German support for an expansive Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and limited Single Resolution Mecha…
Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy
An assessment of carbon sequestration potential of riparian zone of Condamine Catchment, Queensland, Australia
Govern Like Us
An array of strategies have been advocated to promote development around the world since World War II, with emphasis in recent decades on the importance of good governance. However, these strategies have clearly failed to lift significant portions of the global population out of poverty and insecurity and into stable, well-governed societies. Despite a handful of success stories, most developing states remain stuck in the “poverty trap” of weak g…
Persuading lions
“Second-track” methods of resolving or mitigating interstate and intergroup conflicts have gained increased credence in recent years, but a continuing problem has been to persuade “first-track” diplomats to heed the results of these less formal, more analytic processes, especially if they represent the stronger party in an asymmetric conflict situation. Older theory suggests four conditions in which these “lions” can be persuaded: official endors…
Doing the right thing
Hedonic and Instrumental Motives in Anger Regulation
What motivates individuals to regulate their emotions? One answer, which has been highlighted in emotion-regulation research, is that individuals are motivated by short-term hedonic goals (e.g., the motivation to feel pleasure). Another answer, however, is that individuals are motivated by instrumental goals (e.g., the motivation to perform certain behaviors). We suggest that both answers have merit. To demonstrate the role instrumental goals may…
La República Dominicana 2007
Se examinan aspectos económicos y sociales de los eventos dominicanos de 2007, enfatizando la continuación de un manejo neoliberal de los asuntos macroeconómicos. Los resultados han incluido un incremento en la estabilidad política, junto con un descontento social apreciable. Los preparativos para los comicios presidenciales del año 2008 reciben atención, y se sugiere que el sistema político puede evolucionarse hacia un sistema bipartidista. Se d…
Advancing the Study of Decentralization and Federalism in Latin America
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Zones of Peace
Preliminary findings of an intervention integrating modified directly observed therapy and risk reduction counseling
Various interventions have been proposed to address these ongoing needs of HIV-positive patients as they encounter challenges with medication adherence and risk reduction. This report presents the findings of a study that pilots 'DAART+', an intervention that integrates modified directly observed therapy (MDOT), and risk reduction counseling for a population of marginally housed, substance-using persons. The pilot study intended to assess the fea…
New Studies of Political Decentralization in Latin America
New Studies of Political Decentralization in Latin America Christopher Mitchell (bio) Procesos de Descentralización en la Comunidad Andina. Edited by Fernando Carrión . (Quito: FLACSO, 2003. Pp. 426. $10.00 paper.) Decentralisation and Democratic Governance: Experiences from India, Bolivia and South Africa. Edited by Axel Hadenius . (Uppsala, Sweden: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 2003. Pp. 166.) Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties …
Response to Wong, Wyatt and Midkiff
A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding HIV/Aids as a Chronic Long-Term Illness
New treatment advances have radically altered the course of HIV illness and created new challenges for HIV-affected individuals, families, and communities. This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding HIV in the multiple contexts of the client's culture, strengths, life course, and biomedical progression. The article concludes with a discussion of HIV prevention and treatment adherence as key focal points for social workers and …
Patterns of Transnationalism among Western Hemisphere Migrants to The United States
Comparing the Impact of Peace Groups
To date, the literature on unofficial (Track Two) organizations seeking to bring about intrasocietal peace (or the resolution of protracted social conflicts) has tended to consist of case studies involving a single organization working in a single location. The work of such organizations also occasionally merits a mention in studies of recent peace processes, such as those in Central America, Sri Lanka, or Northern Ireland (Darby and MacGinty 200…
Beyond Resolution
The paper considers the concept of ‘conflict transformation’ in relation to earlier ideas concerning the ‘resolution’ of conflict and seeks to differentiate between the two approaches. Writers and writings from the conflict transformation ‘school’ are surveyed and an effort is made to delineate the core characteristics of the approach, viewed either as a process or an end state. Questions are raised about transformation on a personal, group or co…
The Significance of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks for United States-Bound Migration in the Western Hemisphere
The economic and political effects of the September 11 terrorist attacks weakened Latin American and Caribbean economies, reduced employment among Western Hemisphere immigrants living in the United States, and hindered new migrants' access to U.S. territory. Thus, the 9/11 events probably increased long-term motivations for northward migration in the hemisphere, while discouraging and postponing international population movement in the short run.…
Patient Satisfaction with Manualized Versus Standard Interventions in a Managed Care Context
Objective: This article reviews the current debate surrounding the use of manualized treatments within behavioral health settings and presents the results of an exploratory study (N = 230) that examined client satisfaction with structured, time-limited treatment versus unstructured individualized treatment. Method: The study employed a survey design using the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) to determine levels of client satisfaction wit…
Gestures of Conciliation
Gestures of Conciliation
Gestures of Conciliation examines the ideas, assumptions and theories that underpin how leaders of parties in intractable conflicts begin and sustain a process of peacemaking by offering to their adve
An indispensable encyclopedia
Negotiation as problem solving
In challenging the traditional view about the sharp distinction between problem solving and negotiation, Kelman has opened new possibilities. I present 3 reasons for not being optimistic about the adoption of the problem-solving metaphor by negotiators
Classifying Conflicts
It is suggested that one reason for the resistance of protracted, intranational conflicts to efforts at resolution arises from their asymmetric structure. The concept of asymmetry is examined and illustrated. The argument is made that asymmetry is a more complex conception than a simple matter of power imbalance. Various dimensions of asymmetry are outlined and some examination made of the implications of legal and structural asymmetries for conf…
International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy
Recent literature on migration, international relations and foreign policy is reviewed in this article, stressing applications of global systems paradigms, studies of state entry and exit rules, and anatomies of domestic policy-setting processes on migration. After a concise assessment of the contemporary theory of global political economy, the paper argues for seeking midrange generalizations on the international relations of migration. It also …
Beyond Resolution
The paper considers the concept of ‘conflict transformation’ in relation to earlier ideas concerning the ‘resolution’ of conflict and seeks to differentiate between the two approaches. Writers and writings from the conflict transformation ‘school’ are surveyed and an effort is made to delineate the core characteristics of the approach, viewed either as a process or an end state. Questions are raised about transformation on a personal, group or co…
Etiology and Outcomes of Protest
Flexibility in Negotiation and Mediation
This introductory article provides an overview of the concept of flexibility and the articles to follow. Both positive and problematic aspects of flexibility for conflict resolution are discussed: if manifest in joint problem-solving behavior, flexibility can contribute to improved negotiated outcomes; if used tactically by one or another party, it can lead to unfavorable outcomes for at least one of the parties. Flexibility can be understood at …
U.S. Policy toward Haitian Boat People, 1972-93
In the early 1970s, Haitians began migrating by sea to south Florida without authorization. Influential economic and social elites in that region pressed for federal action to deter this population stream. Until 1981, arriving Haitian boat people were detained in Florida, and most were deported as rapidly as possible. Since 1981, the U.S. government has used the Coast Guard to intercept boats laden with Haitian migrants. Since May 1992, “interdic…
Rational Models and the Ending of Wars
The article considers the problem of using the expected utility approach to war termination. In the context of the ending of the Boer War, the authors attempt to explain why an expected utility approach has difficulty in accommodating the fact that there was a long delay between the initiation of certain proposals for termination and the eventual acceptance of essentially the same terms. They conclude that the problem in this case was that neithe…
Perceptions of Empathy and Client Satisfaction with Managed Behavioral Health Care
Managed care continues to revolutionize the provision of mental health services in the United States. Long-term, open-ended therapies have been replaced by short-term, highly focused interventions. Increasingly, managed care organizations rely on standardized preferred practice guidelines to give direction and focus to social work and other therapeutic interventions. Critics argue that changes effected by managed care, particularly the use of tre…
Local peace zones as institutionalized conflict
In developing the theme of local "zones of peace" for this issue of Peace Review, we began with a rather narrow conception. We knew about at least two types of peace zones. First, there were those that had been created by local, often grass roots, efforts in the midst of major civil wars in places such as Guatemala, the Philippines, and El Salvador. These were clearly peace zones constructed "from the bottom up." Second, and even more obvious to …
Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy
A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding HIV/Aids as a Chronic Long-Term Illness
New treatment advances have radically altered the course of HIV illness and created new challenges for HIV-affected individuals, families, and communities. This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding HIV in the multiple contexts of the client's culture, strengths, life course, and biomedical progression. The article concludes with a discussion of HIV prevention and treatment adherence as key focal points for social workers and …
Treating Anxiety in a Managed Care Setting
Objective: A controlled comparison of the effects of medication alone and medication in conjunction with cognitive-behavioral group therapy in the treatment of panic disorder. Method: A quasi-experimental research design was used to compare posttest anxiety scores of clients who received medication alone ( n= 26) and those who received weekly therapy in addition to medication ( n= 30). The Somatic, Cognitive, Behavioral Anxiety Inventory, a 36-it…
Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy
International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy
Christopher Mitchell, International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Special Silver Anniversary Issue: International Migration an Assessment for the 90's (Autumn, 1989), pp. 681-708
Modelling bicommunal conflict
Illiberal’ Peace and the Nature of ‘Illiberality’
This article focuses on an old type of imposed peace settlement which has been enjoying something of a revival in the past decade and has challenged the dominant “liberal peace” model as a way of ending violence in a conflict. It seeks to clarify what is meant by an “illiberal” or authoritarian peace by re-examining and contrasting the essential characters of a liberal peace. The study uses the series of peace agreements in Central America and el…
United We Stand
Banking union is arguably the most important EU reform since the Maastricht Treaty, transferring substantial authority to European regulators and taking a significant step toward fiscal union. However, it remains incomplete, as Germany has repeatedly blocked progress on the European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS). This opposition contrasts with German support for an expansive Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and limited Single Resolution Mecha…
An assessment of carbon sequestration potential of riparian zone of Condamine Catchment, Queensland, Australia
La República Dominicana 2007
Se examinan aspectos económicos y sociales de los eventos dominicanos de 2007, enfatizando la continuación de un manejo neoliberal de los asuntos macroeconómicos. Los resultados han incluido un incremento en la estabilidad política, junto con un descontento social apreciable. Los preparativos para los comicios presidenciales del año 2008 reciben atención, y se sugiere que el sistema político puede evolucionarse hacia un sistema bipartidista. Se d…
The Significance of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks for United States-Bound Migration in the Western Hemisphere
The economic and political effects of the September 11 terrorist attacks weakened Latin American and Caribbean economies, reduced employment among Western Hemisphere immigrants living in the United States, and hindered new migrants' access to U.S. territory. Thus, the 9/11 events probably increased long-term motivations for northward migration in the hemisphere, while discouraging and postponing international population movement in the short run.…
Constraints on Third Party Flexibility
The article uses two very different examples of third party mediation to illustrate the argument that intermediary flexibility has two aspects: freedom from constraint and capacity to undertake an influential interventive role by carrying out a variety of important functions. It concludes that both aspects are important for the success of mediation initiatives—although each confers very different advantages on particular mediator types and circum…
Changing Perspectives in Latin American Studies
Evaluating Conflict
The argument that social or international conflicts are functional or dysfunctional is re- examined. It is suggested that discussion has tended to confuse at least three levels at which any conflict could realistically and usefully be evaluated; that of the parties engaged in the conflict, that of factions and individuals within each of the parties, and that of the overall social system within which the conflict occurs. Various kinds of costs and…
The systems analysis of conflict
Persuading lions
“Second-track” methods of resolving or mitigating interstate and intergroup conflicts have gained increased credence in recent years, but a continuing problem has been to persuade “first-track” diplomats to heed the results of these less formal, more analytic processes, especially if they represent the stronger party in an asymmetric conflict situation. Older theory suggests four conditions in which these “lions” can be persuaded: official endors…
Conflict Resolution and Controlled Communication
As someone who has been associated with the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict in London, and with John Burton's development of the mediatory technique of 'controlled communication', I read Robert Yalem's recent evaluation of the technique (Yalem 1971) with interest, and experienced a sense of regret that Yalem had not been able to find the time to visit London for discussions with those who had direct experience of controlled communication in o…
Conflict Theory, Peace Research and the Analysis of Communal Conflicts
The systems analysis of conflict
Development in the middle east
(1976). Development in the middle east: the practice of architecture. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 89-91
Aid and Politics in Latin America
When Teresa Hayter's Aid as Imperialism was published in 1971, it signaled and helped to bring about an important change in the debate on economic aid to Latin America. Previously, aid and politics usually had been discussed in separate analytical compartments. Writers who focused on the economic process of aid wrote as though it were, or could be made, relatively free from political pressures. 1 Those who stressed the United States' political mo…
The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia
Changing Views of Bolivian Politics
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Evaluating Conflict
The argument that social or international conflicts are functional or dysfunctional is re- examined. It is suggested that discussion has tended to confuse at least three levels at which any conflict could realistically and usefully be evaluated; that of the parties engaged in the conflict, that of factions and individuals within each of the parties, and that of the overall social system within which the conflict occurs. Various kinds of costs and…
The Structure of International Conflict
The New Authoritarianism in Bolivia
Essay| February 01 1981 The New Authoritarianism in Bolivia Christopher Mitchell Christopher Mitchell Associate Professor of Politics, New York University Christopher Mitchell is director of the New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies. He has conducted field research in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He is the author of The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia (New York: Praeger, 1977) and articles on An…
Modelling bicommunal conflict
Modelling bicommunal conflict
Fisonomía del regionalismo boliviano
Rational Models and the Ending of Wars
The article considers the problem of using the expected utility approach to war termination. In the context of the ending of the Boer War, the authors attempt to explain why an expected utility approach has difficulty in accommodating the fact that there was a long delay between the initiation of certain proposals for termination and the eventual acceptance of essentially the same terms. They conclude that the problem in this case was that neithe…
Etiology and Outcomes of Protest
Grit and gradualism — 25 years on
Recent developments in US/Soviet relations are the occasion for renewed interest in theories of de‐escalation and programmes of tension reducing moves (TRMs). The paper reviews proposals and strategies originally propounded in the 1960s, especially Charles Osgood's GRIT strategy and the parallel proposals for Gradualism advanced by Amatai Etzioni. It delineates the essential characteristics of such processes and then examines evidence from experi…
Immigration-the Beleaguered Bureaucracy
French Printing in Eighteenth-Century London
National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America. Lars Schoultz
International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy
Christopher Mitchell, International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Special Silver Anniversary Issue: International Migration an Assessment for the 90's (Autumn, 1989), pp. 681-708
International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy
Recent literature on migration, international relations and foreign policy is reviewed in this article, stressing applications of global systems paradigms, studies of state entry and exit rules, and anatomies of domestic policy-setting processes on migration. After a concise assessment of the contemporary theory of global political economy, the paper argues for seeking midrange generalizations on the international relations of migration. It also …
Changing Perspectives in Latin American Studies
Socialist Somalia
Journal Article Socialist Somalia: rhetoric and reality Get access Socialist Somalia: rhetoric and reality, by Ahmed I. Samatar. Zed Books, London, 1988. 186 pp. £27.95 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0 86232 588 9 and 086232 589 7. C. R. MITCHELL C. R. MITCHELL George Mason UniversityVirginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 353, October 1989, Pages 605–606, https://doi.or…
Changing Perspectives in Latin American Studies
Classifying Conflicts
It is suggested that one reason for the resistance of protracted, intranational conflicts to efforts at resolution arises from their asymmetric structure. The concept of asymmetry is examined and illustrated. The argument is made that asymmetry is a more complex conception than a simple matter of power imbalance. Various dimensions of asymmetry are outlined and some examination made of the implications of legal and structural asymmetries for conf…
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