David E Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4453633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1603-7441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Role conflict and ‘regionness: The effects of the belt and road initiative on South Asia
Relationship lobbying through repeated contributions: A Humanomics Approach
The politics of conflict and transformation: The island of Ireland in comparative perspective
This volume arises out of a conference celebrating the work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. Todd has been one of the
Making or Breaking Regions: China's Belt Road Initiative and the Meaning for Regional Dynamics
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has gained worldwide attention, as the government of Xi Jinping has committed itself to globe the spanning connectivity project. Global in scope, the role of regions and regional organisations has been identified as being important elements in bringing the BRI to fruition, even though its execution has been based on bilateral agreements. This is true in those regions, notably South Asia, Southeast Asia and t…
The Cadastral triangular model
The Cycle of Insecurity: Reassessing the Security Dilemma as a Conflict Analysis Tool
This article critically reassesses one of the classic ideas in International Relations, the security dilemma. It argues that the key insight of security dilemma theory has been obscured – by reductionist debates on single causes of conflict, inconclusive applications, and definitional disputes – and that the security dilemma’s enduring utility is as a model of the relational dynamic inherent in all conflict, the cycle of insecurity. Through a rea…
Geography: Why It Matters
I train geography teachers, so in reviewing this book I find myself asking, ‘should my trainees read this?’ The answer is a resounding yes. This may seem like preaching to the converted. But why ge
Reconciliation through language learning? A case study of the Turas Irish language project in East Belfast
Language is frequently present in the conflictual symbolic politics of violent inter-group conflict. In Northern Ireland, the Irish language has long been contested and has been drawn into the maelstrom of cultural conflict since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement; hence the improbability of an Irish language learning/teaching initiative, operating since 2011, based in Protestant, pro-British East Belfast. This article offers the first academic analy…
Non-Nationalist Politics in a Bi-National Consociation: The Case of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and conflicting identity groups, exalts these identities and excludes others including gender, class and other ethnicities and nationalities. The article describes and assesses the Alliance Party’s arguments that the power-sharing arrangements in Northern Ireland are philo…
The Agreement’s impact on political cooperation
This article aims to examine the impact of the Agreement on political cooperation. It examines party political cooperation in Northern Ireland and also bilateral British–Irish intergovernmental cooperation. In the first section, the Agreement’s consociational system and its criticisms are outlined. In the second section, the effect of the Agreement on cooperation between the Northern Ireland political parties is assessed. In the third section, th…
Pilot Study of a Group-Based Psychosocial Trauma Recovery Program in Secure Accommodation in Scotland
The current study is the first to implement and evaluate a group-based trauma-specific program for adolescents in a secure accommodation facility in Scotland. A randomized control and qualitative pilot study compared an intervention group ( n = 10), who received Teaching Recovery Techniques, to a waitlist control group ( n = 7). Measures included subjective units of disturbance (SUDs), standardized trauma symptom questionnaires, and analysis of b…
An evaluation framework for earthquake-responsive land administration
Faith and belief in The Anti-Christ: A re-evaluation of Nietzsche’s relation to Jesus
This paper re-evaluates the significance of Jesus for Nietzsche by looking at The Anti-Christ. Specifically we will ask whether a re-evaluation of this relation can shed new light on Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity. And we will do this first by surveying the standard interpretations of this issue, as well as the existing literature on The Anti-Christ. Arguing that the latter picks out nothing new regarding a critique of Christianity, we none…
CMS Forum Survey Summary: Designing a Music and Technology Degree
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \"College Music Symposium\" honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such organisations from fulfilling peacebuilding functions. The article identifies three peacebuilding functions of sport: in-group socialisation, promoting social cohesion and symbolically representing new identities. Then, after outlinin…
CMS Forums Monthly Discussion - January/February 2016
Climate resilient urban development: Why responsible land governance is important
Sticking to Their Guns? The Politics of Arms Decommissioning in Northern Ireland, 1998–2007
The problem of how to deal with weapons held by paramilitary groups looms large over recent Northern Irish history. It delayed power-sharing for nine years after the 1998 Agreement and contributed to seismic change in the political landscape, but existing research has failed to adequately account for decommissioning's massive political impact. This article addresses this topic. It probes how the main parties handled the issue of decommissioning a…
Conditions for Peace in Northern Ireland and Israel–Palestine
How might Hamas be influenced to embark on the same path toward democratic, nonviolent politics that Irish republicanism has trod? This question has been at the heart of recent debates on the relev
Does Context Matter? Advisory Systems and the Management of the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process: Mitchell / Does Context Matter
In examining the management of the foreign policy process, scholars have determined that variations in management style have implications for how the policy process is organized and how policy is deliberated. The research has been less attentive to how management varies depending on the issue area. This study examines the decision making of the Bill Clinton administration and compares the management of foreign policy on concurrent international e…
Challenges, Crises, and Change in US Foreign Policy
The outcome of the 2008 US presidential election will prove momentous, as it signals a critical moment of choice for the next president on foreign policy. The president will have to decide whether or not to continue the policies of the last eightyears or chart a new course away from the Bush Doctrine. Not only will this be the first president to make policy in the post-Bush era, it will be the first president after George W. Bush to make policy i…
Cooking the Fudge: Constructive Ambiguity and the Implementation of the Northern Ireland Agreement, 1998–2007
This article examines the role of ‘constructive ambiguity’ in the 1998 Belfast Agreement and in its implementation, and demonstrates how it offers a particularly illuminating lens for analysing the persistence and then conclusion of political instability during the years 1998–2007. It begins with a description of what constructive ambiguity is and how it works. After outlining how constructive ambiguity featured in the Agreement, it then explores…
Evaluating land administration projects in developing countries
Determining Indian Foreign Policy: An Examination of Prime Ministerial Leadership Styles
Perceptions and Preventive War
Journal Article Perceptions and Preventive War Get access Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention. By Renshon Jonathan. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006. 240 pp., $49.95 (ISBN: 0-275-99085-0). David Mitchell David Mitchell Department of Political Science and International Relations Program, Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 9…
The Eugenic Atlantic: Race, disability, and the making of an international Eugenic science, 1800–1945
In this analysis the authors fold disability into a cross-national equation by including disabled people as part of a trans-Atlantic discussion of otherness. In naming this new cultural space the ‘Eugenic Atlantic’, we take up Paul Gilroy's analysis of cultural crossings in order to recognise the social construction of marginalised populations designated by virtue of their presumed biologically-based inferiorities. The analysis of a ‘Eugenic Atla…
Cooking the Fudge: Constructive Ambiguity and the Implementation of the Northern Ireland Agreement, 1998–2007
This article examines the role of ‘constructive ambiguity’ in the 1998 Belfast Agreement and in its implementation, and demonstrates how it offers a particularly illuminating lens for analysing the persistence and then conclusion of political instability during the years 1998–2007. It begins with a description of what constructive ambiguity is and how it works. After outlining how constructive ambiguity featured in the Agreement, it then explores…
Non-Nationalist Politics in a Bi-National Consociation: The Case of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and conflicting identity groups, exalts these identities and excludes others including gender, class and other ethnicities and nationalities. The article describes and assesses the Alliance Party’s arguments that the power-sharing arrangements in Northern Ireland are philo…
Geography: Why It Matters
I train geography teachers, so in reviewing this book I find myself asking, ‘should my trainees read this?’ The answer is a resounding yes. This may seem like preaching to the converted. But why ge
Climate resilient urban development: Why responsible land governance is important
Reconciliation through language learning? A case study of the Turas Irish language project in East Belfast
Language is frequently present in the conflictual symbolic politics of violent inter-group conflict. In Northern Ireland, the Irish language has long been contested and has been drawn into the maelstrom of cultural conflict since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement; hence the improbability of an Irish language learning/teaching initiative, operating since 2011, based in Protestant, pro-British East Belfast. This article offers the first academic analy…
Evaluating land administration projects in developing countries
The Cadastral triangular model
An evaluation framework for earthquake-responsive land administration
Does Context Matter? Advisory Systems and the Management of the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process: Mitchell / Does Context Matter
In examining the management of the foreign policy process, scholars have determined that variations in management style have implications for how the policy process is organized and how policy is deliberated. The research has been less attentive to how management varies depending on the issue area. This study examines the decision making of the Bill Clinton administration and compares the management of foreign policy on concurrent international e…
Relationship lobbying through repeated contributions: A Humanomics Approach
Making or Breaking Regions: China's Belt Road Initiative and the Meaning for Regional Dynamics
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has gained worldwide attention, as the government of Xi Jinping has committed itself to globe the spanning connectivity project. Global in scope, the role of regions and regional organisations has been identified as being important elements in bringing the BRI to fruition, even though its execution has been based on bilateral agreements. This is true in those regions, notably South Asia, Southeast Asia and t…
The Agreement’s impact on political cooperation
This article aims to examine the impact of the Agreement on political cooperation. It examines party political cooperation in Northern Ireland and also bilateral British–Irish intergovernmental cooperation. In the first section, the Agreement’s consociational system and its criticisms are outlined. In the second section, the effect of the Agreement on cooperation between the Northern Ireland political parties is assessed. In the third section, th…
Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such organisations from fulfilling peacebuilding functions. The article identifies three peacebuilding functions of sport: in-group socialisation, promoting social cohesion and symbolically representing new identities. Then, after outlinin…
Sticking to Their Guns? The Politics of Arms Decommissioning in Northern Ireland, 1998–2007
The problem of how to deal with weapons held by paramilitary groups looms large over recent Northern Irish history. It delayed power-sharing for nine years after the 1998 Agreement and contributed to seismic change in the political landscape, but existing research has failed to adequately account for decommissioning's massive political impact. This article addresses this topic. It probes how the main parties handled the issue of decommissioning a…
Pilot Study of a Group-Based Psychosocial Trauma Recovery Program in Secure Accommodation in Scotland
The current study is the first to implement and evaluate a group-based trauma-specific program for adolescents in a secure accommodation facility in Scotland. A randomized control and qualitative pilot study compared an intervention group ( n = 10), who received Teaching Recovery Techniques, to a waitlist control group ( n = 7). Measures included subjective units of disturbance (SUDs), standardized trauma symptom questionnaires, and analysis of b…
Conditions for Peace in Northern Ireland and Israel–Palestine
How might Hamas be influenced to embark on the same path toward democratic, nonviolent politics that Irish republicanism has trod? This question has been at the heart of recent debates on the relev
Theorising Disability as Political Subjectivity: Work by the UIC Disability Collective on political subjectivities
Disability studies has shown how therapeutic professionals and people with disabilities occupy opposite sides of a deep cultural divide, one that artificially bisects normalcy from 'abnormalcy'. The philosophy of political subjectivity provides an opportunity to analyse the fraught nexus that exists between institutions and those who navigate them as professionals and 'clients'. Our essay seeks to theorise the subject positions that emerge as a r…
Ifca’s Efforts to Improve the Exchange of Communications Research Internationally
Tools for Enhancing the International Exchange of Communication Research
Can tools be developed to enhance the global exchange of research in communications? A model developed by Mansell et al. is used to conceptualize where probable “bottlenecks” might develop in efforts to network communications research. One likely bottleneck is bibliographical support systems which at present are poorly developed in our field. A new thesaurus structure developed by UNESCO's COMNET might serve as an international standard for index…
Introduction: Communication in the Americas
The Importance of Being Important: Euthanasia and Critical Interests in Dworkin's Life's Dominion
Near the beginning of the last chapter of Life's Dominion , Ronald Dworkin expounds the following problem. Margo has Alzheimer's disease. She suffers from ‘serious and permanent dementia’ (p. 220). It transpires that some years ago, at a time when she was mentally fully competent, Margo executed an advance directive. In this formal document she expressed her wishes concerning what should happen to her if she were to develop Alzheimer's. Should th…
Communication Theory Today
Using Networked Technologies to Enhance Instruction and Research in Communications
Are there good reasons for communications programs in Canada to experiment with distance and distributed learning technologies? This paper argues that because there are only a handful of relatively small programs in the country which are geographically dispersed, it may make sense to use networked technologies to develop a critical mass of expertise in an emerging field like the social context of information and communication technologies (ICT). …
InSite: Using Video-Conferencing Applications over CA*net3 to Enhance the Collaborative Process for National Research Teams
The InSite project aims to demonstrate how broadband video-conferencing technology can assist collaborative research goals. We propose a rigorous and thorough evaluation strategy based on a knowledge-management theoretical framework to deepen our understanding of broadband applications in a research setting. The sheer size and scope of the project will require the collective skills of a great number of technicians, researchers, and graduate stude…
Internet Content Regulation in Southeast Asia: Directions
The movement of Internet content regulation from telecommunications regulatory regimes into the existing streams of media regulation can be seen all over Southeast Asia - from Australia and Singapore to Vietnam and Laos. This paper examines this movement, comparing regulatory regimes for internet content control in Vietnam, Singapore and Australia. It will show that these countries have moved to integrate internet content regulation within existi…
The Internet as a Site of Citizenship
Canada is a world leader in communications development and use and has been so since before its confederation as a state in 1867. Our prominence in this field is directly traceable to the challenges we have had to negotiate and must continue to negotiate in our development as a culture. • A combination of vast territory and small population dictates our need to negotiate culture across distance. • Geographical proximity to the most powerful natio…
Theorising Disability as Political Subjectivity: Work by the UIC Disability Collective on political subjectivities
Disability studies has shown how therapeutic professionals and people with disabilities occupy opposite sides of a deep cultural divide, one that artificially bisects normalcy from 'abnormalcy'. The philosophy of political subjectivity provides an opportunity to analyse the fraught nexus that exists between institutions and those who navigate them as professionals and 'clients'. Our essay seeks to theorise the subject positions that emerge as a r…
The Visual Foucauldian: Institutional Coercion and Surveillance in Frederick Wiseman's Multi-handicapped Documentary Series
The Alberta SuperNet Research Alliance
The Report of the National Broadband Task Force (2001) raised the prospect of extending broadband capability to virtually all Canadian communities within the next few years. The prototype for Canada as a broadband-connected nation is already under way in the province of Alberta, where, within the next two years, 95% of communities will be provided with broadband connectivity. It is expected that the Alberta SuperNet will provide these communities…
Do International Institutions Matter
Within international relations, interest in the interplay between international and domestic politics dates from at least the 1960s and the development of “across-systems-theory” (Rosenau 1969; Wilkenfield 1973). However, it has only been in the past fifteen years that the field of international relations has placed any real emphasis on including domestic factors in its explanations of international behavior. In the past decade, for example, cons…
The Eugenic Atlantic: Race, disability, and the making of an international Eugenic science, 1800–1945
In this analysis the authors fold disability into a cross-national equation by including disabled people as part of a trans-Atlantic discussion of otherness. In naming this new cultural space the ‘Eugenic Atlantic’, we take up Paul Gilroy's analysis of cultural crossings in order to recognise the social construction of marginalised populations designated by virtue of their presumed biologically-based inferiorities. The analysis of a ‘Eugenic Atla…
Determining Indian Foreign Policy: An Examination of Prime Ministerial Leadership Styles
Perceptions and Preventive War
Journal Article Perceptions and Preventive War Get access Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention. By Renshon Jonathan. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006. 240 pp., $49.95 (ISBN: 0-275-99085-0). David Mitchell David Mitchell Department of Political Science and International Relations Program, Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 9…
Evaluating land administration projects in developing countries
Challenges, Crises, and Change in US Foreign Policy
The outcome of the 2008 US presidential election will prove momentous, as it signals a critical moment of choice for the next president on foreign policy. The president will have to decide whether or not to continue the policies of the last eightyears or chart a new course away from the Bush Doctrine. Not only will this be the first president to make policy in the post-Bush era, it will be the first president after George W. Bush to make policy i…
Cooking the Fudge: Constructive Ambiguity and the Implementation of the Northern Ireland Agreement, 1998–2007
This article examines the role of ‘constructive ambiguity’ in the 1998 Belfast Agreement and in its implementation, and demonstrates how it offers a particularly illuminating lens for analysing the persistence and then conclusion of political instability during the years 1998–2007. It begins with a description of what constructive ambiguity is and how it works. After outlining how constructive ambiguity featured in the Agreement, it then explores…
Sticking to Their Guns? The Politics of Arms Decommissioning in Northern Ireland, 1998–2007
The problem of how to deal with weapons held by paramilitary groups looms large over recent Northern Irish history. It delayed power-sharing for nine years after the 1998 Agreement and contributed to seismic change in the political landscape, but existing research has failed to adequately account for decommissioning's massive political impact. This article addresses this topic. It probes how the main parties handled the issue of decommissioning a…
Conditions for Peace in Northern Ireland and Israel–Palestine
How might Hamas be influenced to embark on the same path toward democratic, nonviolent politics that Irish republicanism has trod? This question has been at the heart of recent debates on the relev
Does Context Matter? Advisory Systems and the Management of the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process: Mitchell / Does Context Matter
In examining the management of the foreign policy process, scholars have determined that variations in management style have implications for how the policy process is organized and how policy is deliberated. The research has been less attentive to how management varies depending on the issue area. This study examines the decision making of the Bill Clinton administration and compares the management of foreign policy on concurrent international e…
CMS Forums Monthly Discussion - January/February 2016
Climate resilient urban development: Why responsible land governance is important
CMS Forum Survey Summary: Designing a Music and Technology Degree
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \"College Music Symposium\" honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
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