Matthew Levinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Levinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Levinger |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revivifying the Responsibility to Protect: Strengthening the Normative Consensus for Atrocity Prevention
This paper examines weaknesses in the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle, drawing on the scholarly literature on norm diffusion and norm cooptation. Despite having been unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2005, the R2P doctrine almost immediately attracted criticism that it reinforced a neocolonial stance by nations of the Global North toward those of the Global South. This critique grew in force during the chaotic aftermath …
Forging Consensus for Atrocity Prevention: Assessing the Record of the OSCE
This essay examines the record of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in fostering norms and collaborative practices for preventing mass atrocities in Eurasia. Comprising fifty-seven participating states “from Vancouver to Vladivostok,” the OSCE is the sole regional security organization spanning all of the members of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact. Its consensus-based approach to advancing “common and comprehensive se…
Narrating Global Order and Disorder
This thematic issue addresses how strategic narratives affect international order. Strategic narratives are conceived of as stories with a political purpose or narratives used by political actors to affect the behavior of others. The articles in this issue address two significant areas important to the study of international relations: how strategic narratives support or undermine alliances, and how they affect norm formation and contestation. Wi…
Why the U.S. Government Failed to Anticipate the Rwandan Genocide of 1994: Lessons for Early Warning and Prevention
During the months leading up to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, cognitive biases obstructed the capacity of U.S. government analysts and policymakers to anticipate mass violence against the country’s Tutsi minority. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. government documents and on interviews with key current and former officials, this essay shows that most U.S. government reporting on Rwanda before April 1994 utilized a faulty cognitive frame that …
A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention
This essay analyzes President Barack Obama’s communication strategies in his speeches and presidential statements concerning threats of mass atrocities in Libya, Syria, and Iraq from 2011 through 2015. It examines how he has used three rhetorical “frames” to explain events in these countries and to advocate specific U.S. policy responses: the “legalistic” (or “liberal internationalist”), the “moralistic,” and the “security” frame. Obama utilized …
Geographical Information Systems Technology as a Tool for Genocide Prevention: The Case of Darfur
This article evaluates potential uses of geographical information systems (GIS) technology and virtual globes, such as Google Earth, for stimulating more effective responses to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities. The essay discusses two projects that utilise commercial satellite imagery to document the destruction of villages and deter future attacks in the Darfur region of Sudan: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Crisis in Darfur …
The Birth of Modern Memory
John Edward Toews, Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. pp. xxiv + 466. George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. xiv + 428. Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History . Cambridge:…
Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Introduction 1. Variations of German experience: Hanover, Saxony and Wurttemberg 2. Modernising monarchy 3. Cultures of the fatherland 4. Propaganda 5. Educating patriots 6. Communications 7. Imagined identities 8. Nationhood Conclusion
Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848
Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion that Prussia lagged behind Western Europe in its political development, demonstrating that Prussian leaders embraced a distinctive program of political modernization in response to their country's defeat by Napoleon in 1806-1807. Building on the eightee…
Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Germany's Transient Pasts: P…
Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany
Other| November 01 2002 Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2002) 24 (4): 117–126. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2002.24.4.117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissio…
Myth and mobilisation: The Triadic Structure of Nationalist Rhetoric
Drawing on the theory of collective action frames, this essay analyses the use of images of a primordial 'golden age' in the rhetoric of national mobilisation. Such idealised images of the past, juxtaposed with exaggerated depictions of a degraded present and a utopian future condition, constitute a rhetorical triad that is an effective instrument for motivating mass political movements. The model developed here emphasises the links between ident…
Das preussische Gymnasium in Staat und Gesellschaft
German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back
This article examines the complex intellectual exchange between French and German thought in the mid-19th century, focusing on the reception and interpretation of Marx and Engels's *The German Ideology*. Levinger and Dumont argue that the text, while largely ignored in its own time, became a crucial point of reference for later theorists, particularly in France. They trace the trajectory of the *German Ideology* from its initial obscurity to its …
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848. Eric Dorn Brose
Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815-22
Journal Article Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815–22 Get access Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 257–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.3.257 Published: 01 July 1990
La Rhétorique Protestataire du Parlement de Rouen (1753-1763)
Durant les quatre dernières décennies de l'Ancien Régime, d'âpres querelles éclatèrent entre les parlements de France et la Couronne. Bon nombre d'historiens, appartenant aux écoles les plus diverses de l'historiographie, ont essayé de faire la lumière sur le rapport qui a pu exister entre ces querelles et la Révolution française. Il est à remarquer que le débat historiographique sur l'importance du rôle joué par l'opposition parlementaire s'est …
Beyond the bourgeois revolution
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE CREATION OF MODERN POLITICAL CULTURE, Vol. I. THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE OLD REGIME edited by Keith Michael Baker Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987. 559 pp., $100.00
Myth and mobilisation: The Triadic Structure of Nationalist Rhetoric
Drawing on the theory of collective action frames, this essay analyses the use of images of a primordial 'golden age' in the rhetoric of national mobilisation. Such idealised images of the past, juxtaposed with exaggerated depictions of a degraded present and a utopian future condition, constitute a rhetorical triad that is an effective instrument for motivating mass political movements. The model developed here emphasises the links between ident…
Geographical Information Systems Technology as a Tool for Genocide Prevention: The Case of Darfur
This article evaluates potential uses of geographical information systems (GIS) technology and virtual globes, such as Google Earth, for stimulating more effective responses to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities. The essay discusses two projects that utilise commercial satellite imagery to document the destruction of villages and deter future attacks in the Darfur region of Sudan: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Crisis in Darfur …
Why the U.S. Government Failed to Anticipate the Rwandan Genocide of 1994: Lessons for Early Warning and Prevention
During the months leading up to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, cognitive biases obstructed the capacity of U.S. government analysts and policymakers to anticipate mass violence against the country’s Tutsi minority. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. government documents and on interviews with key current and former officials, this essay shows that most U.S. government reporting on Rwanda before April 1994 utilized a faulty cognitive frame that …
La Rhétorique Protestataire du Parlement de Rouen (1753-1763)
Durant les quatre dernières décennies de l'Ancien Régime, d'âpres querelles éclatèrent entre les parlements de France et la Couronne. Bon nombre d'historiens, appartenant aux écoles les plus diverses de l'historiographie, ont essayé de faire la lumière sur le rapport qui a pu exister entre ces querelles et la Révolution française. Il est à remarquer que le débat historiographique sur l'importance du rôle joué par l'opposition parlementaire s'est …
Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815-22
Journal Article Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815–22 Get access Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 257–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.3.257 Published: 01 July 1990
Beyond the bourgeois revolution
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE CREATION OF MODERN POLITICAL CULTURE, Vol. I. THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE OLD REGIME edited by Keith Michael Baker Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987. 559 pp., $100.00
Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815-22
Journal Article Hardenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Constitutional Question in Prussia 1815–22 Get access Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 257–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.3.257 Published: 01 July 1990
La Rhétorique Protestataire du Parlement de Rouen (1753-1763)
Durant les quatre dernières décennies de l'Ancien Régime, d'âpres querelles éclatèrent entre les parlements de France et la Couronne. Bon nombre d'historiens, appartenant aux écoles les plus diverses de l'historiographie, ont essayé de faire la lumière sur le rapport qui a pu exister entre ces querelles et la Révolution française. Il est à remarquer que le débat historiographique sur l'importance du rôle joué par l'opposition parlementaire s'est …
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848. Eric Dorn Brose
German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back
This article examines the complex intellectual exchange between French and German thought in the mid-19th century, focusing on the reception and interpretation of Marx and Engels's *The German Ideology*. Levinger and Dumont argue that the text, while largely ignored in its own time, became a crucial point of reference for later theorists, particularly in France. They trace the trajectory of the *German Ideology* from its initial obscurity to its …
Das preussische Gymnasium in Staat und Gesellschaft
Myth and mobilisation: The Triadic Structure of Nationalist Rhetoric
Drawing on the theory of collective action frames, this essay analyses the use of images of a primordial 'golden age' in the rhetoric of national mobilisation. Such idealised images of the past, juxtaposed with exaggerated depictions of a degraded present and a utopian future condition, constitute a rhetorical triad that is an effective instrument for motivating mass political movements. The model developed here emphasises the links between ident…
Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848
Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion that Prussia lagged behind Western Europe in its political development, demonstrating that Prussian leaders embraced a distinctive program of political modernization in response to their country's defeat by Napoleon in 1806-1807. Building on the eightee…
Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Germany's Transient Pasts: P…
Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany
Other| November 01 2002 Memory and Forgetting: Reinventing the Past in Twentieth-Century Germany Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2002) 24 (4): 117–126. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2002.24.4.117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissio…
Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Introduction 1. Variations of German experience: Hanover, Saxony and Wurttemberg 2. Modernising monarchy 3. Cultures of the fatherland 4. Propaganda 5. Educating patriots 6. Communications 7. Imagined identities 8. Nationhood Conclusion
The Birth of Modern Memory
John Edward Toews, Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. pp. xxiv + 466. George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. xiv + 428. Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History . Cambridge:…
Geographical Information Systems Technology as a Tool for Genocide Prevention: The Case of Darfur
This article evaluates potential uses of geographical information systems (GIS) technology and virtual globes, such as Google Earth, for stimulating more effective responses to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities. The essay discusses two projects that utilise commercial satellite imagery to document the destruction of villages and deter future attacks in the Darfur region of Sudan: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Crisis in Darfur …
A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention
This essay analyzes President Barack Obama’s communication strategies in his speeches and presidential statements concerning threats of mass atrocities in Libya, Syria, and Iraq from 2011 through 2015. It examines how he has used three rhetorical “frames” to explain events in these countries and to advocate specific U.S. policy responses: the “legalistic” (or “liberal internationalist”), the “moralistic,” and the “security” frame. Obama utilized …
Why the U.S. Government Failed to Anticipate the Rwandan Genocide of 1994: Lessons for Early Warning and Prevention
During the months leading up to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, cognitive biases obstructed the capacity of U.S. government analysts and policymakers to anticipate mass violence against the country’s Tutsi minority. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. government documents and on interviews with key current and former officials, this essay shows that most U.S. government reporting on Rwanda before April 1994 utilized a faulty cognitive frame that …
Narrating Global Order and Disorder
This thematic issue addresses how strategic narratives affect international order. Strategic narratives are conceived of as stories with a political purpose or narratives used by political actors to affect the behavior of others. The articles in this issue address two significant areas important to the study of international relations: how strategic narratives support or undermine alliances, and how they affect norm formation and contestation. Wi…
Forging Consensus for Atrocity Prevention: Assessing the Record of the OSCE
This essay examines the record of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in fostering norms and collaborative practices for preventing mass atrocities in Eurasia. Comprising fifty-seven participating states “from Vancouver to Vladivostok,” the OSCE is the sole regional security organization spanning all of the members of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact. Its consensus-based approach to advancing “common and comprehensive se…
Revivifying the Responsibility to Protect: Strengthening the Normative Consensus for Atrocity Prevention
This paper examines weaknesses in the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle, drawing on the scholarly literature on norm diffusion and norm cooptation. Despite having been unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2005, the R2P doctrine almost immediately attracted criticism that it reinforced a neocolonial stance by nations of the Global North toward those of the Global South. This critique grew in force during the chaotic aftermath …
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