Michael G Roskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9196348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G Roskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | Roskin |
| SIGNATURE | ROSKIN M G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The New Cold War
Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations for US Involvement
Very early, the state gave birth to twins--politics, the means of influencing the state, and crime, the means of avoiding the state. The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly by politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state-avoidance options. For what Latin Americans call los marginados (the marginals), crime may be a rational economic choice. W…
Nato: The Strange Alliance Getting Stranger
NATO is simultaneously expanding and hollowing out, a dangerous combination that is being little considered in the current anemic debate over NATO enlargement, a debate largely devoid of historical and strategic context. This writer does not oppose admitting new members in Central Europe but believes the question of NATO expansion is being badly framed. We may wish to expand NATO, but we must understand that such a move has geostrategic consequen…
The Third Balkan War, and How It Will End
National Interest: From Abstraction to Strategy
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies.Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."---Lord Palmerston, 1848The student new to international relations is often at first intoxicated by the concept of "national interest."It seems crisp, clear, objective: what's good for the nation as a whole in international affairs.(What's good for the nation as a whole in domestic affairs is the public…
Macedonia and Albania: The Missing Alliance
In his first novel, Typee, Herman Melville portrayed a South Pacific island inhabited by two tribes, one kindly generous, the other wild murderous. Two sailors jump ship, hoping to land on the nice side of the island. They do are well treated. Then they must leave for the other side of the island-something to do with a chief's daughter-and take their chances with the savages they have been warned about. When they arrive, they are treated well by …
The Bosnian-Serb Problem: What We Should and Should Not Do
No prominent works on this page.
The Bosnian-Serb Problem: What We Should and Should Not Do
Macedonia and Albania: The Missing Alliance
In his first novel, Typee, Herman Melville portrayed a South Pacific island inhabited by two tribes, one kindly generous, the other wild murderous. Two sailors jump ship, hoping to land on the nice side of the island. They do are well treated. Then they must leave for the other side of the island-something to do with a chief's daughter-and take their chances with the savages they have been warned about. When they arrive, they are treated well by …
The Third Balkan War, and How It Will End
National Interest: From Abstraction to Strategy
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies.Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."---Lord Palmerston, 1848The student new to international relations is often at first intoxicated by the concept of "national interest."It seems crisp, clear, objective: what's good for the nation as a whole in international affairs.(What's good for the nation as a whole in domestic affairs is the public…
Nato: The Strange Alliance Getting Stranger
NATO is simultaneously expanding and hollowing out, a dangerous combination that is being little considered in the current anemic debate over NATO enlargement, a debate largely devoid of historical and strategic context. This writer does not oppose admitting new members in Central Europe but believes the question of NATO expansion is being badly framed. We may wish to expand NATO, but we must understand that such a move has geostrategic consequen…
Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations for US Involvement
Very early, the state gave birth to twins--politics, the means of influencing the state, and crime, the means of avoiding the state. The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly by politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state-avoidance options. For what Latin Americans call los marginados (the marginals), crime may be a rational economic choice. W…
The New Cold War
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Alliance (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (2 works) · Abstraction (1 works)