Howard Tamashiro

Biographic Data

ID962902
NAMEHoward Tamashiro
GIVEN NAMESHoward
FAMILY NAMETamashiro
SIGNATURETAMASHIRO H
AFFILIATIONSAllegheny College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX2

  • Learning to Learn; Learning to Win

    Open AccessAndrey Meleshevich, Andrey A Meleshevich et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2008

    Simulations and role-playing exercises have been used effectively as a teaching device in all areas of political science and international relations. One such simulation, with 20 years of success, is the Model NATO Conference, currently sponsored annually in Washington, D.C., by Howard University and Kent State University's Center for International and Comparative Studies. Model NATO is an intercollegiate, competitive, and experiential learning e…

  • Moral Justifications for Resort To War With Nicaragua

    Open AccessDonald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991References: 7

    mong ethicists, a debate rages over the applicability and use- fulness of the just war ethic (Yoder 1984).Critics question the ~.credibility of the just war tradition, arguing that just war precepts are either so ambiguous or so watered-down that they can offer no moral guidance.Supposedly, policy-makers end up embracing either moral crusades or a &dquo;blank check&dquo; national interest ethic, even though the rhetoric of just war ethics might b…

  • Moral Justifications for Resort to War with Nicaragua

    Donald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991

    Donald Secrest, Gregory G. Brunk, Howard Tamashiro, Moral Justifications for Resort to War with Nicaragua: The Attitudes of Three American Elite Groups, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 541-559

  • Empirical Investigation of Normative Discourse on War

    Open AccessDonald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Peace Research1991Cited by: 2References: 2

    Quantitative and analytical social scientists increasingly have become interested in analyzing traditional normative problems. In this article we discuss the operationalization of conjectures contained in the Donagan—Aquinas thesis about the agreement of lay people and ethicists with the substantive content of the system of common morality concerning use of force. The thesis focuses on the complexity of reasoning at various levels in a claimed li…

  • Military Views of Morality and War

    Gregory G Brunk, Donald Secrest et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly1990Cited by: 15References: 4

    Journal Article Military Views of Morality and War: An Empirical Study of the Attitudes of Retired American Officers Get access Gregory G. Brunk, Gregory G. Brunk University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald Secrest, Donald Secrest University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Howard Tamashiro Howard Tamashiro Allegheny College Search for o…

  • The Underlying Structure of Ethical Beliefs toward War

    Open AccessHoward Tamashiro, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Peace Research1989Cited by: 1References: 3

    Behavioralists have tended to neglect the study of ethics as unimportant to an understanding of political behavior and its various manifestations, such as international conflict. In our analysis we examine the attitudes of a sample of retired American military officers toward war and war waging issues in order to infer the more fundamental nature of the ethical constraints that are embedded within the decision making of these individuals. Three f…

  • Methylmercury exposure and mortality in southern Japan

    Howard Tamashiro, Mikio Arakaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1986References: 1

    This study examines mortality patterns by cause of death to investigate the effect of exposure to methylmercury in a small area of Minamata City (Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan), which has the highest concentration of patients with Minamata disease. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) are computed by cause of death for the study area, using the age specific rates of the entire city as a standard. The SMRs for liver cancer and chronic liver disease i…

  • Geographical distributions of cerebrocardiovascular diseases in Japan

    Open AccessHoward Tamashiro, N Enomoto et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine Part D…1981References: 1