Arthur Lee Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Lee Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theoretical analysis of the “balance of power”
The structure of a “balance of power” system can be explored with the aid of models, but for practical and theoretical reasons, the theorist often has difficulty in displaying all the implications of his model. In an effort to bring out and examine the stabilizing qualities and other potentialities attributed to the “balance of power” system, the authors of this article have invented a competitive game of international politics—not as itself a mo…
Votes and vetoes
Who are the Australians
Military-Technological Models and World Order
The history of Europe, Mr. Burns, is the history of the horse of the horse and its harnessing. Twenty-two years ago, Margaret Deanesley's pleasantly comical epitome started a train of thought about a twofold source, amongst technological innovations, of historic change in the world order. The first source: with a heavy saddle and stirrups, the Eastern empire and later the Dark Ages feudalities mounted their armoured lancers and swordsmen, who the…
Problems in Australian Foreign Policy, July‐December 1967
The Great Debate
Australia's Long-Term Strategic Situation
Australia has just brought her commitment of troops in Vietnam up to 1,500. Together with her forces in Malaysia, these deployments may begin to tell upon the regular Army's capacity to train the new selective service draft. All three Services are more or less run down in numbers and equipment as a result of a reduction in defence expenditure from 3.9 per cent of gross national product in 1953-4 to 2.7 per cent in 1962-3. Though it was back to 3 …
Must Strategy and Conscience Be Disjoined
A Critique of “Theories of Rational Decision” and an exposé of “Hazards and Pitfalls of Strategic Thinking” comprise the first two and more significant Parts of Strategy and Conscience. A third Part pleads for understanding between the United States and the Soviet Union, and for “ideological disarmament”; it presents vanother mode of thinking in which conscience is central
Action and Reaction in World Politics. International Systems in Perspective
Problems of Australian Foreign Policy January‐June 1961
Prospects for a General Theory of International Relations
How far may we hope to go in theorizing about international affairs? That question is at the center of this article, which consists of several more or less eclectic stabs at the problem.I shall be writing as though some theory of power politics were the only possible candidate for being the theory of international relations. Let that be regarded as an act of methodological faith—certainly I can think of no scientific demonstration of it, and I wo…
The Thinking General
Disarmament or the balance of terror
International Theory and Historical Explanation
theoretical laws in order to complete his explanation. Though the imaginary economic case, for instance, was in all strictness an instance of Gresham's Law, and though Gresham's Law is certainly a general proposition, it is not required to be used as such, or indeed at all, within the explanation that instantiates it. At first sight deductive in form, that explanation changes its shape under further examination. My first conclusion, therefore, is…
A graphical approach to some problems of the arms race
1 This study attempts to construct some rationale for certain of Dr. S. P. Huntington's historically based findings (3) by means of multiplier diagrams whose use the writer learned early in 1958 from Professor T. W. Swan, in an as-yetunpublished paper, Circular Causation (1957), and from D. W. E. G. Salter, both of the Australian National University. It is further maintained that such diagrams (which are of a kind applied to the problem of arms r…
Disarmament or the Balance of Terror
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New Approaches to World Politics
The International Consequences of Expecting Surprise
The leading Powers are actively seeking novel weapon-systems to give themselves the advantages of surprise. Difficulties in the way of that search, and its effects upon the relationships between Powers, furnish the subjects of this article.* We shall confine ourselves to those surprises that consist in or are closely related to the invention of instruments of war. “Surprise” has many other connotations for military and international studies—e.g.,…
From Balance to Deterrence
New weapons, and the new strategies and tactics which they make possible, alter the conduct of wars.† But they may also induce changes in the conduct—warlike or peaceful—of international affairs. This happens for either or both of two quite different kinds of reason. First and least importantly, a new weapon may tilt the balance in favor of those nations pre-eminent in the skill to use or the resources to produce it. Second and more profoundly, i…
Ascertainment, probability and evidence in history
From Balance to Deterrence
New weapons, and the new strategies and tactics which they make possible, alter the conduct of wars.† But they may also induce changes in the conduct—warlike or peaceful—of international affairs. This happens for either or both of two quite different kinds of reason. First and least importantly, a new weapon may tilt the balance in favor of those nations pre-eminent in the skill to use or the resources to produce it. Second and more profoundly, i…
A graphical approach to some problems of the arms race
1 This study attempts to construct some rationale for certain of Dr. S. P. Huntington's historically based findings (3) by means of multiplier diagrams whose use the writer learned early in 1958 from Professor T. W. Swan, in an as-yetunpublished paper, Circular Causation (1957), and from D. W. E. G. Salter, both of the Australian National University. It is further maintained that such diagrams (which are of a kind applied to the problem of arms r…
The International Consequences of Expecting Surprise
The leading Powers are actively seeking novel weapon-systems to give themselves the advantages of surprise. Difficulties in the way of that search, and its effects upon the relationships between Powers, furnish the subjects of this article.* We shall confine ourselves to those surprises that consist in or are closely related to the invention of instruments of war. “Surprise” has many other connotations for military and international studies—e.g.,…
Prospects for a General Theory of International Relations
How far may we hope to go in theorizing about international affairs? That question is at the center of this article, which consists of several more or less eclectic stabs at the problem.I shall be writing as though some theory of power politics were the only possible candidate for being the theory of international relations. Let that be regarded as an act of methodological faith—certainly I can think of no scientific demonstration of it, and I wo…
Must Strategy and Conscience Be Disjoined
A Critique of “Theories of Rational Decision” and an exposé of “Hazards and Pitfalls of Strategic Thinking” comprise the first two and more significant Parts of Strategy and Conscience. A third Part pleads for understanding between the United States and the Soviet Union, and for “ideological disarmament”; it presents vanother mode of thinking in which conscience is central
International Theory and Historical Explanation
theoretical laws in order to complete his explanation. Though the imaginary economic case, for instance, was in all strictness an instance of Gresham's Law, and though Gresham's Law is certainly a general proposition, it is not required to be used as such, or indeed at all, within the explanation that instantiates it. At first sight deductive in form, that explanation changes its shape under further examination. My first conclusion, therefore, is…
Ascertainment, probability and evidence in history
From Balance to Deterrence
New weapons, and the new strategies and tactics which they make possible, alter the conduct of wars.† But they may also induce changes in the conduct—warlike or peaceful—of international affairs. This happens for either or both of two quite different kinds of reason. First and least importantly, a new weapon may tilt the balance in favor of those nations pre-eminent in the skill to use or the resources to produce it. Second and more profoundly, i…
New Approaches to World Politics
The International Consequences of Expecting Surprise
The leading Powers are actively seeking novel weapon-systems to give themselves the advantages of surprise. Difficulties in the way of that search, and its effects upon the relationships between Powers, furnish the subjects of this article.* We shall confine ourselves to those surprises that consist in or are closely related to the invention of instruments of war. “Surprise” has many other connotations for military and international studies—e.g.,…
A graphical approach to some problems of the arms race
1 This study attempts to construct some rationale for certain of Dr. S. P. Huntington's historically based findings (3) by means of multiplier diagrams whose use the writer learned early in 1958 from Professor T. W. Swan, in an as-yetunpublished paper, Circular Causation (1957), and from D. W. E. G. Salter, both of the Australian National University. It is further maintained that such diagrams (which are of a kind applied to the problem of arms r…
Disarmament or the Balance of Terror
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Thinking General
Disarmament or the balance of terror
International Theory and Historical Explanation
theoretical laws in order to complete his explanation. Though the imaginary economic case, for instance, was in all strictness an instance of Gresham's Law, and though Gresham's Law is certainly a general proposition, it is not required to be used as such, or indeed at all, within the explanation that instantiates it. At first sight deductive in form, that explanation changes its shape under further examination. My first conclusion, therefore, is…
Problems of Australian Foreign Policy January‐June 1961
Prospects for a General Theory of International Relations
How far may we hope to go in theorizing about international affairs? That question is at the center of this article, which consists of several more or less eclectic stabs at the problem.I shall be writing as though some theory of power politics were the only possible candidate for being the theory of international relations. Let that be regarded as an act of methodological faith—certainly I can think of no scientific demonstration of it, and I wo…
Action and Reaction in World Politics. International Systems in Perspective
The Great Debate
Australia's Long-Term Strategic Situation
Australia has just brought her commitment of troops in Vietnam up to 1,500. Together with her forces in Malaysia, these deployments may begin to tell upon the regular Army's capacity to train the new selective service draft. All three Services are more or less run down in numbers and equipment as a result of a reduction in defence expenditure from 3.9 per cent of gross national product in 1953-4 to 2.7 per cent in 1962-3. Though it was back to 3 …
Must Strategy and Conscience Be Disjoined
A Critique of “Theories of Rational Decision” and an exposé of “Hazards and Pitfalls of Strategic Thinking” comprise the first two and more significant Parts of Strategy and Conscience. A third Part pleads for understanding between the United States and the Soviet Union, and for “ideological disarmament”; it presents vanother mode of thinking in which conscience is central
Problems in Australian Foreign Policy, July‐December 1967
Military-Technological Models and World Order
The history of Europe, Mr. Burns, is the history of the horse of the horse and its harnessing. Twenty-two years ago, Margaret Deanesley's pleasantly comical epitome started a train of thought about a twofold source, amongst technological innovations, of historic change in the world order. The first source: with a heavy saddle and stirrups, the Eastern empire and later the Dark Ages feudalities mounted their armoured lancers and swordsmen, who the…
Who are the Australians
Votes and vetoes
Theoretical analysis of the “balance of power”
The structure of a “balance of power” system can be explored with the aid of models, but for practical and theoretical reasons, the theorist often has difficulty in displaying all the implications of his model. In an effort to bring out and examine the stabilizing qualities and other potentialities attributed to the “balance of power” system, the authors of this article have invented a competitive game of international politics—not as itself a mo…
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