Roy Licklider
Biographic Data
| ID | 959867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Licklider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Licklider |
| SIGNATURE | LICKLIDER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 371 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
United They Fall: Why the International Community Should Not Promote Military Integration after Civil War
Preventing the recurrence of civil war has become a critical problem for both scholarship and policy. Conventional wisdom urges the creation of capable, legitimate, and inclusive postwar states to reduce the risk of relapse into civil war, and international peacebuilders have often encouraged the formation of a new national army that would include members of the war's opposing sides. However, both the theoretical logics and the empirical record i…
Carter Johnson, Partition and Post-War Violence Case Study of Moldova and Pridnestrovie
Partition advocates argue that ethnic groups must be separated completely in order to prevent renewed violence but Moldova is an exception with its large “stay-behind” minority and a lack of renewed violence. This chapter uses Moldova to develop partition theory, presenting an institutionalized explanation that focuses on the interaction between state-building and minority collaboration in a post-war context. The chapter argues that strong state …
Ethical Advice: Conflict Management vs. Human Rights in Ending Civil Wars
The theory of transitional justice, usually either war crimes tribunals and/or truth commissions, rests on the assumption that after internal conflict, societies must learn and accept the truth of what sort of violence has occurred in order to build a functioning, united society, and that any solution which omits such policies should be rejected. There is no empirical support for this assumption. Moreover, acting on it implies that civil war shou…
Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War
Peasants, Choice, and Civil Wars
David Mason has been a pioneer in the systematic study of civil wars (Mason 1984; Mason and Krane 1989; Mason and Fett 1996; Mason, Weingarten, and Fett 1999). Caught in the Crossfire: Revolutions, Repression, and the Rational Peasant reflects that experience. As Mason says, it draws several important and different research traditions together: classical theories of the causes of revolutions, dependency theory, rational choice analysis of why ind…
You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building
Journal Article You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building: Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace Get access You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building by Simon Chesterman. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. 280 pp. $95.00.Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace by Virginia Page Fortna. Princeton, NJ, Princeton U…
Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace by Virginia Page Fortna
What's All the Shouting About
Book Notes
After the Shooting Stops
The academic study of civil war has arguably produced too many edited books, too many of which in turn have focused on the same cases and issues. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements [End Page 174] is a rare exception. It is innovative in its choice of topic, methodology, and iconoclastic policy conclusions, and it is likely to have a substantial impact on the field
The American way of state building: Germany, Japan, Somalia and panama
Little has been written about attempts to alter the domestic political systems of these countries, even though this was central to the missions. The latter two cases were selected as extremes on a ‘degree of difficulty’ scale. In Somalia there was basically no governing structure; the US had to build one in order to end the starvation caused by civil war. In Panama the US took over a government in place and had an alternative national leader; the…
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution
Journal Article Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution Get access Louis Kriesberg. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Little.eld, Inc., 1998, 320 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 156–157, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658010 Published: 15 February 2013
Conflict among Former Allies after Civil War Settlement: Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, and Lebanon
The interesting theoretical question about civil war in general is not why it begins (the possible reasons are surely too many to enumerate) or why it stops (all sorts of contingent explanations from simple fatigue to outside force may apply) but why it so often does not resume when it might. We need to comprehend this process of conflict transformation, whereby the conflict either becomes less important or is pursued without using mass violence.…
Early returns: Results of the first wave of statistical studies of civil war termination
The results of the first wave of large‐N studies of how civil wars end are brought together. The studies have significant problems and do not always agree. However, some conclusions are reached by two or more different studies: civil wars do end; secession is an unusual outcome but increased autonomy is not; most civil wars do not break out again; the post‐Cold War upsurge in civil wars has ended; some civil wars do end with negotiated settlement…
Books in review
Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict
Journal Article Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict Get access Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict by David Callahan. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. 273 pp. $24.00. Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University—New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 723–724, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658265…
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Stopping the Killing. How Civil Wars End
The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993
We know very little about how civil wars end. Harrison Wagner has argued that negotiated settlements of civil wars are likely to break down because segments of power-sharing governments retain the capacity for resorting to civil war while victory destroys the losers' organization, making it very difficult to resume the war. An analysis of a data set of 91 post-1945 civil wars generally supports this hypothesis but only in wars over identity issue…
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Social science and nuclear war
Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations
The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States
Journal Article The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States Get access Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 1988, Pages 205–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600627 Published: 01 June 1988
The failure of the Arab oil weapon in 1973–1974
The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEQ stated that the 1973–1974 oil embargo was designed to force Israel to return the territory captured in 1967, alter the status of Jerusalem, and restore the rights of the Palestinians. It seemed in a strong position to ensure compliance with its demands since it controlled a large proportion of oil exports and had impressive financial resources, while the industrial countries had no ava…
The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993
We know very little about how civil wars end. Harrison Wagner has argued that negotiated settlements of civil wars are likely to break down because segments of power-sharing governments retain the capacity for resorting to civil war while victory destroys the losers' organization, making it very difficult to resume the war. An analysis of a data set of 91 post-1945 civil wars generally supports this hypothesis but only in wars over identity issue…
Conflict among Former Allies after Civil War Settlement: Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, and Lebanon
The interesting theoretical question about civil war in general is not why it begins (the possible reasons are surely too many to enumerate) or why it stops (all sorts of contingent explanations from simple fatigue to outside force may apply) but why it so often does not resume when it might. We need to comprehend this process of conflict transformation, whereby the conflict either becomes less important or is pursued without using mass violence.…
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
United They Fall: Why the International Community Should Not Promote Military Integration after Civil War
Preventing the recurrence of civil war has become a critical problem for both scholarship and policy. Conventional wisdom urges the creation of capable, legitimate, and inclusive postwar states to reduce the risk of relapse into civil war, and international peacebuilders have often encouraged the formation of a new national army that would include members of the war's opposing sides. However, both the theoretical logics and the empirical record i…
The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States
Journal Article The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States Get access Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 1988, Pages 205–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600627 Published: 01 June 1988
Early returns: Results of the first wave of statistical studies of civil war termination
The results of the first wave of large‐N studies of how civil wars end are brought together. The studies have significant problems and do not always agree. However, some conclusions are reached by two or more different studies: civil wars do end; secession is an unusual outcome but increased autonomy is not; most civil wars do not break out again; the post‐Cold War upsurge in civil wars has ended; some civil wars do end with negotiated settlement…
Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War
Ethical Advice: Conflict Management vs. Human Rights in Ending Civil Wars
The theory of transitional justice, usually either war crimes tribunals and/or truth commissions, rests on the assumption that after internal conflict, societies must learn and accept the truth of what sort of violence has occurred in order to build a functioning, united society, and that any solution which omits such policies should be rejected. There is no empirical support for this assumption. Moreover, acting on it implies that civil war shou…
The Missile Gap Controversy
The disputes surrounding the formation of military policy are not famous for their clarity, yet, even so, the controversy over the missile gap stands out as a muddled issue. The controversy arose in the late 1950S as a result of intelligence estimates that between 1960 and 1964 the Soviet Union might have more intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) operational than would the United States. Assuming the existence of a missile gap, opponents o…
What's All the Shouting About
Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations
Soviet Control of Eastern Europe: Morality versus American National Interest
The American policy of opposing Soviet control of Eastern Europe has not been seriously questioned, probably because morality (encouraging self-determination) seems to coincide with national interest (weakening Soviet power). This article contends, however, that the primary American national interest in Eastern Europe is the prevention of thermonuclear war. Eastern Europe without tight Soviet control would be very unstable due to disputes between…
The Missile Gap Controversy
The disputes surrounding the formation of military policy are not famous for their clarity, yet, even so, the controversy over the missile gap stands out as a muddled issue. The controversy arose in the late 1950S as a result of intelligence estimates that between 1960 and 1964 the Soviet Union might have more intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) operational than would the United States. Assuming the existence of a missile gap, opponents o…
Rejoinder to Piers
Ploughman highlights three important points. (X) The argument that Eastern Europe is different from other areas of the world is central to my thesis; if that argument falls, so does the overall thesis. The case for the distinctiveness of Eastern Europe is made in the article, and the reader must decide whether or not to accept it. (2) Ploughman suggests that the United States must be opposed to Soviet control of Eastern Europe because it seized c…
Soviet Control of Eastern Europe: Morality versus American National Interest
The American policy of opposing Soviet control of Eastern Europe has not been seriously questioned, probably because morality (encouraging self-determination) seems to coincide with national interest (weakening Soviet power). This article contends, however, that the primary American national interest in Eastern Europe is the prevention of thermonuclear war. Eastern Europe without tight Soviet control would be very unstable due to disputes between…
Projections of world population and world food supply
A Skeptic's View of Corporate Jobs and New Academic Programs
Like the leading edge of the hurricaine, the first signals of the approaching depression in the academic job market are upon us. The change in expectations from 1968 to 1978 is hard to overstate. Departments that assumed their students would get “appropriate” jobs without help must now organize to get any employment for some of their graduates. It is not uncommon for graduates from second-level institutions to find that there simply are no academ…
The failure of the Arab oil weapon in 1973–1974
The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEQ stated that the 1973–1974 oil embargo was designed to force Israel to return the territory captured in 1967, alter the status of Jerusalem, and restore the rights of the Palestinians. It seemed in a strong position to ensure compliance with its demands since it controlled a large proportion of oil exports and had impressive financial resources, while the industrial countries had no ava…
Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations
The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States
Journal Article The Power of Oil: The Arab Oil Weapon and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and the United States Get access Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 1988, Pages 205–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600627 Published: 01 June 1988
Social science and nuclear war
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993
We know very little about how civil wars end. Harrison Wagner has argued that negotiated settlements of civil wars are likely to break down because segments of power-sharing governments retain the capacity for resorting to civil war while victory destroys the losers' organization, making it very difficult to resume the war. An analysis of a data set of 91 post-1945 civil wars generally supports this hypothesis but only in wars over identity issue…
Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Stopping the Killing. How Civil Wars End
Early returns: Results of the first wave of statistical studies of civil war termination
The results of the first wave of large‐N studies of how civil wars end are brought together. The studies have significant problems and do not always agree. However, some conclusions are reached by two or more different studies: civil wars do end; secession is an unusual outcome but increased autonomy is not; most civil wars do not break out again; the post‐Cold War upsurge in civil wars has ended; some civil wars do end with negotiated settlement…
Books in review
Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict
Journal Article Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict Get access Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict by David Callahan. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. 273 pp. $24.00. Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University—New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 723–724, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658265…
The American way of state building: Germany, Japan, Somalia and panama
Little has been written about attempts to alter the domestic political systems of these countries, even though this was central to the missions. The latter two cases were selected as extremes on a ‘degree of difficulty’ scale. In Somalia there was basically no governing structure; the US had to build one in order to end the starvation caused by civil war. In Panama the US took over a government in place and had an alternative national leader; the…
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution
Journal Article Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution Get access Louis Kriesberg. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Little.eld, Inc., 1998, 320 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Roy Licklider Roy Licklider Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 156–157, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658010 Published: 15 February 2013
Conflict among Former Allies after Civil War Settlement: Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, and Lebanon
The interesting theoretical question about civil war in general is not why it begins (the possible reasons are surely too many to enumerate) or why it stops (all sorts of contingent explanations from simple fatigue to outside force may apply) but why it so often does not resume when it might. We need to comprehend this process of conflict transformation, whereby the conflict either becomes less important or is pursued without using mass violence.…
Book Notes
After the Shooting Stops
The academic study of civil war has arguably produced too many edited books, too many of which in turn have focused on the same cases and issues. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements [End Page 174] is a rare exception. It is innovative in its choice of topic, methodology, and iconoclastic policy conclusions, and it is likely to have a substantial impact on the field
What's All the Shouting About
Peasants, Choice, and Civil Wars
David Mason has been a pioneer in the systematic study of civil wars (Mason 1984; Mason and Krane 1989; Mason and Fett 1996; Mason, Weingarten, and Fett 1999). Caught in the Crossfire: Revolutions, Repression, and the Rational Peasant reflects that experience. As Mason says, it draws several important and different research traditions together: classical theories of the causes of revolutions, dependency theory, rational choice analysis of why ind…
You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building
Journal Article You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building: Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace Get access You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building by Simon Chesterman. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. 280 pp. $95.00.Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace by Virginia Page Fortna. Princeton, NJ, Princeton U…
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