Solomon Major
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solomon Major |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solomon |
| FAMILY NAME | Major |
| SIGNATURE | MAJOR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval War College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cross Roads or Cross Purposes? Tensions Between Military and Humanitarian Providers
In October 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed a conference of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Washington, D.C. There, he remarked want you to know that I have made it clear to my staff here and to all of our ambassadors around the world that I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with the NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us, such an important part of our combat team. (1) Althoug…
Timing Is Everything
Recent scholarship suggests that democracies are more vulnerable to economic coercion than authoritarian regimes; unfortunately, the countries most often targeted by economic sanctions are nondemocratic. While agreeing that authoritarians are indeed more robust to sanctions at most times, this article argues that there exist “windows of opportunity, ” created by domestic instability, which make dictatorships particularly vulnerable to sanctions p…
The Politics of Private Foreign Aid
A large and increasing share of international humanitarian and development aid is raised from nongovernmental sources, allocated by transnational NGOs. We know little about this private foreign aid, not even how it is distributed across recipient countries, much less what explains the allocation. This article presents an original data set, based on detailed financial records from most of the major U.S.-based humanitarian and development NGOs, whi…
The Perils of Profiling
In a highly influential article in International Security, Stephen Stedman introduced a model of “civil war spoilers,” which focused valuable attention on the generally underappreciated role of elites in determining the course of negotiations and in implementing intrastate peace accords. For all its virtues, however, the spoiler model did not suggest the best set of strategies for deterring or defeating those who might seek to undermine peace pro…
Caught in the Crossfire
Current sanctions orthodoxy argues that groups' ability to set policy depends on their total budget. According to such a perspective, successful sanctions must target the unfriendly within the target countries while shielding “innocent bystanders” from harm. The authors argue that the focus on groups' aggregate budget constraint and the war-of-attrition view of policy formation misconceives of how policies are determined. The most effective group…
The Politics of Private Foreign Aid
A large and increasing share of international humanitarian and development aid is raised from nongovernmental sources, allocated by transnational NGOs. We know little about this private foreign aid, not even how it is distributed across recipient countries, much less what explains the allocation. This article presents an original data set, based on detailed financial records from most of the major U.S.-based humanitarian and development NGOs, whi…
The Perils of Profiling
In a highly influential article in International Security, Stephen Stedman introduced a model of “civil war spoilers,” which focused valuable attention on the generally underappreciated role of elites in determining the course of negotiations and in implementing intrastate peace accords. For all its virtues, however, the spoiler model did not suggest the best set of strategies for deterring or defeating those who might seek to undermine peace pro…
Caught in the Crossfire
Current sanctions orthodoxy argues that groups' ability to set policy depends on their total budget. According to such a perspective, successful sanctions must target the unfriendly within the target countries while shielding “innocent bystanders” from harm. The authors argue that the focus on groups' aggregate budget constraint and the war-of-attrition view of policy formation misconceives of how policies are determined. The most effective group…
Timing Is Everything
Recent scholarship suggests that democracies are more vulnerable to economic coercion than authoritarian regimes; unfortunately, the countries most often targeted by economic sanctions are nondemocratic. While agreeing that authoritarians are indeed more robust to sanctions at most times, this article argues that there exist “windows of opportunity, ” created by domestic instability, which make dictatorships particularly vulnerable to sanctions p…
Caught in the Crossfire
Current sanctions orthodoxy argues that groups' ability to set policy depends on their total budget. According to such a perspective, successful sanctions must target the unfriendly within the target countries while shielding “innocent bystanders” from harm. The authors argue that the focus on groups' aggregate budget constraint and the war-of-attrition view of policy formation misconceives of how policies are determined. The most effective group…
The Perils of Profiling
In a highly influential article in International Security, Stephen Stedman introduced a model of “civil war spoilers,” which focused valuable attention on the generally underappreciated role of elites in determining the course of negotiations and in implementing intrastate peace accords. For all its virtues, however, the spoiler model did not suggest the best set of strategies for deterring or defeating those who might seek to undermine peace pro…
Cross Roads or Cross Purposes? Tensions Between Military and Humanitarian Providers
In October 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed a conference of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Washington, D.C. There, he remarked want you to know that I have made it clear to my staff here and to all of our ambassadors around the world that I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with the NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us, such an important part of our combat team. (1) Althoug…
Timing Is Everything
Recent scholarship suggests that democracies are more vulnerable to economic coercion than authoritarian regimes; unfortunately, the countries most often targeted by economic sanctions are nondemocratic. While agreeing that authoritarians are indeed more robust to sanctions at most times, this article argues that there exist “windows of opportunity, ” created by domestic instability, which make dictatorships particularly vulnerable to sanctions p…
The Politics of Private Foreign Aid
A large and increasing share of international humanitarian and development aid is raised from nongovernmental sources, allocated by transnational NGOs. We know little about this private foreign aid, not even how it is distributed across recipient countries, much less what explains the allocation. This article presents an original data set, based on detailed financial records from most of the major U.S.-based humanitarian and development NGOs, whi…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economic Sanctions and International Relations (2 works) · Humanitarian aid (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)