Travis Nelson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3684196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Travis Nelson |
| NOMBRES | Travis |
| APELLIDO | Nelson |
| FIRMA | NELSON T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Platteville |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Captain America? On the relationship between Hollywood blockbusters and American soft power
In 30 years, Hollywood movies have gone from making a majority of their money domestically to making a majority of their money internationally. This significant shift is underappreciated in scholarship such as International Relations research on soft power. This article argues that, counterintuitively, a growing global audience for Hollywood movies has diluted any soft power effect for the United States by globalizing their production and inducin…
Rawls on agreeing to disagree
We use Rawls’s account of public reason and the Law of Peoples to test two hypotheses: democracies are more likely to invoke self-defense in justifications than non-democracies, and democracies are more likely to invoke human rights in justifications than non-democracies. Through an analysis of war justifications since 1875, we find that although democracies and non-democracies are similarly likely to use self-defense as a justification, democrac…
The United States Stands Ready to Be of Assistance”
This article asks how American understandings of foreign natural disaster have evolved over time. Are the political and humanitarian concerns surrounding disaster and disaster aid radically different now from what they were a century ago? Through an analysis of presidential statements and major newspaper editorials following foreign natural disaster, I find that there has indeed been significant change. Notions of post-disaster humanitarianism ha…
Sport without referees? The power of the International Olympic Committee and the social politics of accountability
As governor of the world’s pre-eminent sporting event, the International Olympic Committee exercises considerable power on the world stage. It has also been widely accused of corruption, corporate greed, and hypocrisy. However, for all of the media attention that the International Olympic Committee receives, it has seldom been examined theoretically and in the context of global governance. Why have so few stakeholders, including the states that h…
Determinants of disaster aid
This article examines the motivations behind the provision of disaster aid. Is this aid provision driven more by ‘humanitarian’ variables such as the severity of the political or natural emergency in the recipient state or ‘political’ variables such as the economic or strategic interest of the donor state? Through a statistical analysis of the aid activity of 22 donor states between 1997 and 2008, it is found that, contrary to much of the literat…
Charmed by China? Popular Perceptions of Chinese Influence in Asia
Chinese influence in Asia is complicated by many factors. There are those who argue that China's growing military and economic power make this influence an automatic threat, while others maintain that China's recent attempts at a ‘charm offensive’ mute this threat and have succeeded in creating a positive image for many of its regional neighbors. Drawing on survey data collected across 23 countries, we enter this debate by asking what individuals…
Not just the Games? Power, protest and politics at the Olympics
This article conducts a theoretical and empirical analysis of political protest activity surrounding the modern Olympic Games. Although the Olympics are certainly among the world’s most prominent and recognized events, they have seldom been explored from a political perspective within the mainstream International Relations and transnational protest literatures. We argue, however, that the Olympics provide a theoretically interesting context in wh…
Why Justify? Explaining Variation in Conflict Justification, 1980–2008
This article is about state justifications for conflict initiation, an understudied yet nonetheless significant element of the foreign policy behavior of sovereign states. To what degree do such justifications vary among states? And what drives any variation that does exist? Regime type? Power status? Or, as implicitly assumed by some constructivist scholars, normative identification? Through an analysis of conflict justifications between 1980 an…
When disaster strikes
This article asks under what circumstances natural disaster can lead to interstate conflict initiation. Through an analysis of all major earthquakes, floods, storms, and tsunamis between 1950 and 2006, I find that serious disaster increases the general likelihood of conflict initiation, and I reach two key conclusions about the specific causal mechanisms driving post-disaster conflict. First, I show that there is not a single instance of a rival …
The Great American Mission
Journal Article The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order by David Ekbladh Get access The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order by David Ekbladh. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2009. 404 pp. $35.00. Travis Nelson Travis Nelson University of Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
Rejecting the gift horse
This is a study of the increasingly common phenomenon of developing states refusing some or all international aid following serious natural disaster. Aid refusal by the Myanmar junta following a 2008 cyclone is only the most recent prominent example of this practice, and I present here an original dataset of all cases of disaster aid refusal occurring between 1982 and 2006. Through quantitative analysis, I show that although poorer states are ind…
The Purpose of Regime Intervention, 1815–2001
This article is an examination of an understudied yet clearly significant international phenomenon: military intervention explicitly directed at regime change in a target state. The article argues that regime interventions are best understood not dyadically, but regionally. They are primarily attempts to stabilize regional interests of the intervening state. This hypothesis is tested through statistical analysis of intervention between 1815 and 2…
Not just the Games? Power, protest and politics at the Olympics
This article conducts a theoretical and empirical analysis of political protest activity surrounding the modern Olympic Games. Although the Olympics are certainly among the world’s most prominent and recognized events, they have seldom been explored from a political perspective within the mainstream International Relations and transnational protest literatures. We argue, however, that the Olympics provide a theoretically interesting context in wh…
Charmed by China? Popular Perceptions of Chinese Influence in Asia
Chinese influence in Asia is complicated by many factors. There are those who argue that China's growing military and economic power make this influence an automatic threat, while others maintain that China's recent attempts at a ‘charm offensive’ mute this threat and have succeeded in creating a positive image for many of its regional neighbors. Drawing on survey data collected across 23 countries, we enter this debate by asking what individuals…
When disaster strikes
This article asks under what circumstances natural disaster can lead to interstate conflict initiation. Through an analysis of all major earthquakes, floods, storms, and tsunamis between 1950 and 2006, I find that serious disaster increases the general likelihood of conflict initiation, and I reach two key conclusions about the specific causal mechanisms driving post-disaster conflict. First, I show that there is not a single instance of a rival …
Determinants of disaster aid
This article examines the motivations behind the provision of disaster aid. Is this aid provision driven more by ‘humanitarian’ variables such as the severity of the political or natural emergency in the recipient state or ‘political’ variables such as the economic or strategic interest of the donor state? Through a statistical analysis of the aid activity of 22 donor states between 1997 and 2008, it is found that, contrary to much of the literat…
Rejecting the gift horse
This is a study of the increasingly common phenomenon of developing states refusing some or all international aid following serious natural disaster. Aid refusal by the Myanmar junta following a 2008 cyclone is only the most recent prominent example of this practice, and I present here an original dataset of all cases of disaster aid refusal occurring between 1982 and 2006. Through quantitative analysis, I show that although poorer states are ind…
Sport without referees? The power of the International Olympic Committee and the social politics of accountability
As governor of the world’s pre-eminent sporting event, the International Olympic Committee exercises considerable power on the world stage. It has also been widely accused of corruption, corporate greed, and hypocrisy. However, for all of the media attention that the International Olympic Committee receives, it has seldom been examined theoretically and in the context of global governance. Why have so few stakeholders, including the states that h…
Captain America? On the relationship between Hollywood blockbusters and American soft power
In 30 years, Hollywood movies have gone from making a majority of their money domestically to making a majority of their money internationally. This significant shift is underappreciated in scholarship such as International Relations research on soft power. This article argues that, counterintuitively, a growing global audience for Hollywood movies has diluted any soft power effect for the United States by globalizing their production and inducin…
The Purpose of Regime Intervention, 1815–2001
This article is an examination of an understudied yet clearly significant international phenomenon: military intervention explicitly directed at regime change in a target state. The article argues that regime interventions are best understood not dyadically, but regionally. They are primarily attempts to stabilize regional interests of the intervening state. This hypothesis is tested through statistical analysis of intervention between 1815 and 2…
Why Justify? Explaining Variation in Conflict Justification, 1980–2008
This article is about state justifications for conflict initiation, an understudied yet nonetheless significant element of the foreign policy behavior of sovereign states. To what degree do such justifications vary among states? And what drives any variation that does exist? Regime type? Power status? Or, as implicitly assumed by some constructivist scholars, normative identification? Through an analysis of conflict justifications between 1980 an…
When disaster strikes
This article asks under what circumstances natural disaster can lead to interstate conflict initiation. Through an analysis of all major earthquakes, floods, storms, and tsunamis between 1950 and 2006, I find that serious disaster increases the general likelihood of conflict initiation, and I reach two key conclusions about the specific causal mechanisms driving post-disaster conflict. First, I show that there is not a single instance of a rival …
The Great American Mission
Journal Article The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order by David Ekbladh Get access The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order by David Ekbladh. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2009. 404 pp. $35.00. Travis Nelson Travis Nelson University of Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
Rejecting the gift horse
This is a study of the increasingly common phenomenon of developing states refusing some or all international aid following serious natural disaster. Aid refusal by the Myanmar junta following a 2008 cyclone is only the most recent prominent example of this practice, and I present here an original dataset of all cases of disaster aid refusal occurring between 1982 and 2006. Through quantitative analysis, I show that although poorer states are ind…
Not just the Games? Power, protest and politics at the Olympics
This article conducts a theoretical and empirical analysis of political protest activity surrounding the modern Olympic Games. Although the Olympics are certainly among the world’s most prominent and recognized events, they have seldom been explored from a political perspective within the mainstream International Relations and transnational protest literatures. We argue, however, that the Olympics provide a theoretically interesting context in wh…
Determinants of disaster aid
This article examines the motivations behind the provision of disaster aid. Is this aid provision driven more by ‘humanitarian’ variables such as the severity of the political or natural emergency in the recipient state or ‘political’ variables such as the economic or strategic interest of the donor state? Through a statistical analysis of the aid activity of 22 donor states between 1997 and 2008, it is found that, contrary to much of the literat…
Charmed by China? Popular Perceptions of Chinese Influence in Asia
Chinese influence in Asia is complicated by many factors. There are those who argue that China's growing military and economic power make this influence an automatic threat, while others maintain that China's recent attempts at a ‘charm offensive’ mute this threat and have succeeded in creating a positive image for many of its regional neighbors. Drawing on survey data collected across 23 countries, we enter this debate by asking what individuals…
The United States Stands Ready to Be of Assistance”
This article asks how American understandings of foreign natural disaster have evolved over time. Are the political and humanitarian concerns surrounding disaster and disaster aid radically different now from what they were a century ago? Through an analysis of presidential statements and major newspaper editorials following foreign natural disaster, I find that there has indeed been significant change. Notions of post-disaster humanitarianism ha…
Sport without referees? The power of the International Olympic Committee and the social politics of accountability
As governor of the world’s pre-eminent sporting event, the International Olympic Committee exercises considerable power on the world stage. It has also been widely accused of corruption, corporate greed, and hypocrisy. However, for all of the media attention that the International Olympic Committee receives, it has seldom been examined theoretically and in the context of global governance. Why have so few stakeholders, including the states that h…
Rawls on agreeing to disagree
We use Rawls’s account of public reason and the Law of Peoples to test two hypotheses: democracies are more likely to invoke self-defense in justifications than non-democracies, and democracies are more likely to invoke human rights in justifications than non-democracies. Through an analysis of war justifications since 1875, we find that although democracies and non-democracies are similarly likely to use self-defense as a justification, democrac…
Captain America? On the relationship between Hollywood blockbusters and American soft power
In 30 years, Hollywood movies have gone from making a majority of their money domestically to making a majority of their money internationally. This significant shift is underappreciated in scholarship such as International Relations research on soft power. This article argues that, counterintuitively, a growing global audience for Hollywood movies has diluted any soft power effect for the United States by globalizing their production and inducin…
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