David A Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 974860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2011-4772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
What’s Really Going On in the South China Sea
Most analysts and commentators portray China's conduct in the South China Sea as a series of aggressive norm violations by an emerging peer competitor to the United States. We argue that this narrative misreads both the substance and dynamics of recent Chinese policy. Since 2016, China has strenuously sought – and largely managed – not to be in technical violation of the Philippines Arbitration Tribunal ruling despite having publicly disavowed it…
Alexander Wendt, Quantum mind and social science: Unifying physical and social ontology
Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science hypothesizes that all intentional phenomena, including both psychological and social facts, are macroscopic quantum mechanical processes. Whether right or wrong, the suggestion highlights the fact that the social sciences, including IR, have until very recently never systematically discussed the potential relevance to our work of the quantum revolution a century ago. According to Wendt, that has l…
Understanding Justice
People often disagree about what counts as “just” in a particular case. Such disagreement is natural and understandable once we realize that people commonly bring to the concept of justice different understandings of what makes something just or unjust, interpret general principles differently in specific circumstances, and/or fail to see eye to eye on appropriate ways of resolving justice disputes. But in all cases, disagreement about what is ju…
The Missile Crisis from a Cuban Perspective: Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Reflections, by Håkan Karlsson & Tomás Diez Acosta
The twin purposes of this intriguing little volume are to provide "a historical overview that explains the background and prelude to the [Cuban missile] crisis from a Cuban perspective" and "an archaeological and anthropological investigation of the material and immaterial remains of the crisis located at the former Soviet strategic nuclear missile bases and among people living in their surroundings in the Cuban countryside"-two "themes and dimen…
It’s time to think boldly about Canada–Japan security cooperation
Policy-makers, scholars, and commentators regularly remark upon the unrealized potential of Canada–Japan cooperation, but neither country has taken decisive steps to address it. This reticence is especially noticeable in the security realm. As friendly, like-minded countries with common values, a common vision of international order, and strongly shared security interests in an increasingly tumultuous world, Canada and Japan would be expected to …
World War II Propaganda: Analyzing the Art of Persuasion during Wartime
Shows in illuminating detail how the Allied and Axis forces used visual images and other propaganda material to sway public opinion during World War II. Author David Welch provides a neatly organized primary resource that focuses on key themes associated with World War II propaganda. Readers will not only be engrossed with a wide range of propaganda artifacts, they will also receive a better and more nuanced understanding of the nature of this pr…
Substitute for Power: Wartime British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939–44., by Ioannis Stefanidis
Substitute for Power: Wartime British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939–44., by Ioannis Stefanidis." The International History Review, 38(3), pp. 617–618
Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History
‘Opening Pandora’s Box’: Propaganda, Power and Persuasion
‘Today Germany, Tomorrow The World’: Nazi Propaganda and Total War, 1943–45
The Justice Motive in International Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Modern empirical social science is unique in denying, dismissing, or discounting the role of justice considerations in human behavior. A relatively small group of International Relations ( ir ) scholars have attempted to address this lacuna, with limited uptake to date. The articles in this issue collectively seek to move this research program forward. In this essay, I explore various conceptual, epistemological, methodological, and sociology-of-…
The Final Throw of the Dice. General Ludendorff: Morale, «Patriotic Instruction» and Imperial German Propaganda 1917-18
In order to counter reports of a widening gulf between state authority and popular feeling about the war, General Ludendorff launched a major propaganda campaign in July 1917 called Vaterländische Unterricht (patriotic instructions). Four major themes were identified: 1] The Causes of the War. 2] Confidence in Final Victory. 3] The Necessity and Importance of Leadership and 4] The Enemy. It was Ludendorff’s «last throw of the propaganda dice» and…
Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis
Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: Pearson New International Edition
Japan as a 'Normal Country': A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World
For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise the definition of normality and ask whether Japan is indeed abnormal, what it would mean to become normal, and wheth…
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War – By Robert Jervis
A Cultural Theory meets cultures of theory
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Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK
The Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is President—Then and Now At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating…
The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda
Introduction 1. The Conquest of the Masses 2. Goebbels the Propagandist 3. Restructuring the Means of Communication 4. Propaganda and Public Opinion 1933-39 5. Nazi Propaganda at War, 1939-1945 Conclusion Postscript: Germany's Search for a Bearable Past Appendix: Document Section
Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision‐Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War – By Huiyun Feng
Why Leaders Choose War – By Jonathan Renshon
Do Sheep Cause Wars
Do Sheep Cause Wars? Scare Tactics: The Politics of International Rivalry. By Colaresi Michael P.Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 232 pp., $34.95 (ISBN: 0-8156-3066-2). David A. Welch David A. Welch Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 483–485, https://doi.org/10.1111/j…
Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change
Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade domains: Argentina's decision to go to war over the Falk…
Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft: Constructing a People’s Community
This article argues that the concept of a ‘national’ or ‘people’s’ community ( Volksgemeinschaft) was a key element in the ‘revolutionary’ aims of the nazi regime, and illustrates the remarkably ambitious nature of its propaganda. Propaganda presented an image of society that had successfully manufactured a ‘national community’ by transcending social and class divisiveness through a new ethnic unity based on ‘true’ German values. But was there a …
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present
A truly international, authoritative A–Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history. This fascinating survey provides a comprehensive introduction to propaganda, its changing nature, its practitioners, and its impact on the past five centuries of world history. Written by leading experts, it covers the masters of th…
Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation
The Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms: Retrospect and Prospect
Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse
Crisis Decision Making Reconsidered
Serious problems may be found in Herek, Janis, and Huth's 1987 study of the relationship between the quality of the decision-making process in an international crisis and the desirability of its outcome. A closer look at the best understood and most thoroughly documented case used in their study (the Cuban missile crisis of 1962) reveals the chief cause of those problems to be the use of sources that appear to be incomplete in the light of new ev…
Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft: Constructing a People’s Community
This article argues that the concept of a ‘national’ or ‘people’s’ community ( Volksgemeinschaft) was a key element in the ‘revolutionary’ aims of the nazi regime, and illustrates the remarkably ambitious nature of its propaganda. Propaganda presented an image of society that had successfully manufactured a ‘national community’ by transcending social and class divisiveness through a new ethnic unity based on ‘true’ German values. But was there a …
Why International Relations theorists should stop reading Thucydides
Many regard Thucydides as the first genuine International Relations theorist and a writer of continuing, even timeless importance. His history of the Peloponnesian War is certainly a remarkable work that obviously has had an enormous influence on the development of the field. Its influence, however, is largely pernicious. This article explores why
An Introduction to the ExComm Transcripts
"Specifying "Interests: Japan's Claim to the Northern Territories and Its Implications for International Relations Theory
Journal Article Specifying "Interests": Japan's Claim to the Northern Territories and Its Implications for International Relations Theory Get access Masato Kimura, Masato Kimura Toyo Eiwa Women's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Welch David A. Welch University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 42, I…
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED T -M^he Cuban missile crisis has assumed genuinely mythic significance. Dean Rusk called it most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came eyeball to eyeball. Theodore Sorensen called it the Gettysburg of the Cold War. For Arthur Schles inger, Jr., it was finest hour of the Kennedy presidency; a moment of maximum nuclear peril traversed without catas trophe. Many p…
The Politics and Psychology of Restraint: Israeli Decision-Making in the Gulf War
Two horses were sitting at a bar reminiscing about the day's races. The strangest thing happened today,' said the first horse. 'I was waiting for the start of the fifth race at Rockingham Park, when I felt this odd twitch in my hind leg. As soon as the race started, I sprinted to the lead, and never looked back. I won by four lengths.' 'What a coincidence,' said the second horse. The same thing happened to me in the third race at Suffolk Downs. I…
Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict
The Justice Motive in International Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Modern empirical social science is unique in denying, dismissing, or discounting the role of justice considerations in human behavior. A relatively small group of International Relations ( ir ) scholars have attempted to address this lacuna, with limited uptake to date. The articles in this issue collectively seek to move this research program forward. In this essay, I explore various conceptual, epistemological, methodological, and sociology-of-…
Remember the Falklands: Missed Lessons of a Misunderstood War
THE SECOND OF APRIL, 1997, marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Argentine military occupation of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, which Britain had controlled since 1833.1 The ensuing war between the two countries caught everyone by surprise. By the lights of current international relations theory, it simply should not have taken place. A Third World country with largely dated military equipment, a conscript army, and virtually no power-projecti…
Remember the Falklands? Missed Lessons of a Misunderstood War
Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
What’s Really Going On in the South China Sea
Most analysts and commentators portray China's conduct in the South China Sea as a series of aggressive norm violations by an emerging peer competitor to the United States. We argue that this narrative misreads both the substance and dynamics of recent Chinese policy. Since 2016, China has strenuously sought – and largely managed – not to be in technical violation of the Philippines Arbitration Tribunal ruling despite having publicly disavowed it…
The “clash of civilizations” thesis as an argument and as a phenomenon
Risking “The Destruction of Nations: Lessons of The Cuban Missile Crisis for New and Aspiring Nuclear States
The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of Peter Feaver, Nancy Gallagher, Thomas Graham, Richard Ned Lebow, Scott Sagan, and Melissa Williams, as well as the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: Should We Swallow Oral History
The proletarian cinema and the Weimar Republic
Peacemaking by Democracies: The Effect of State Autonomy on the Post—World War Settlements
Citizenship and Politics: The Legacy of Wilton Park for Post-War Reconstruction
Writing in 1965 in Britain Looks to Germany , Donald Cameron Watt concluded: Perhaps the biggest successes scored by the Education Branch lay in the programme of exchange visits at all levels, in the discovery and encouragement of a new generation of teachers in Germany....and most imaginatively of all in the opening up of the Wilton Park Centre to which leaders of opinion in Germany came for short residential courses on British democratic practi…
Can We Think Systematically About Ethics and Statecraft
Should United Nations forces step up their efforts to pacify Mogadishu or should they pull out of Somalia altogether? Does the international community have the right (or the obligation) to force Haiti's military rulers to relinquish their grip on power, and how much suffering should we he willing to inflict upon that country's already impoverished people to accomplish that goal? Should the outside world intervene militarily to stop the carnage in…
Understanding Justice
People often disagree about what counts as “just” in a particular case. Such disagreement is natural and understandable once we realize that people commonly bring to the concept of justice different understandings of what makes something just or unjust, interpret general principles differently in specific circumstances, and/or fail to see eye to eye on appropriate ways of resolving justice disputes. But in all cases, disagreement about what is ju…
The Cuban missile crisis: On historical judgment and inference: A reply to mark kramer
The proletarian cinema and the Weimar Republic
Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933–1945
This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War. David Welch studies more than one hundred films of all types, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment
Nazi Propaganda: The Power and the Limitations
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945
The history and organization of the Nazi cinema Goebbels the propagandist comradeship, heroism and the party blood and soil (blut und boden) the principle of leadership (fuhrerprinzip) war and the military image the image of the enemy conclusion appendix
A Medium for the Masses: Ufa and Imperial German film propaganda during the First World War
The Political Re-Education of Germany After World War Ii: A Need for a Reappraisal
Journal Article THE POLITICAL RE–EDUCATION OF GERMANY AFTER WORLD WAR II: A NEED FOR A REAPPRAISAL? Get access David Welch David Welch Polytechnic of Central London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 23–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/4.1.23 Published: 01 April 1987
Propaganda and Indoctrination in the Third Reich: Success or Failure
An Introduction to the ExComm Transcripts
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED T -M^he Cuban missile crisis has assumed genuinely mythic significance. Dean Rusk called it most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came eyeball to eyeball. Theodore Sorensen called it the Gettysburg of the Cold War. For Arthur Schles inger, Jr., it was finest hour of the Kennedy presidency; a moment of maximum nuclear peril traversed without catas trophe. Many p…
Welch on Balfour on Welch
Journal Article Welch on Balfour on Welch Get access David Welch David Welch Polytechnic of Central London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/6.2.159 Published: 01 April 1988
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DAVID WELCH DAVID WELCH Polytechnic of Central London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue 413, October 1989, Pages 1086-b–1087, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.413.1086-b Published: 01 October 1989
Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
Crisis Decision Making Reconsidered
Serious problems may be found in Herek, Janis, and Huth's 1987 study of the relationship between the quality of the decision-making process in an international crisis and the desirability of its outcome. A closer look at the best understood and most thoroughly documented case used in their study (the Cuban missile crisis of 1962) reveals the chief cause of those problems to be the use of sources that appear to be incomplete in the light of new ev…
Cinema and Society in Imperial Germany 1905-1918
Cinema and Society in Imperial Germany 1905-1918
Cinema and Society in Imperial Germany 1905–1918 Get access David A. Welch David A. Welch Polytechnic of Central London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 1990, Pages 28–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.1.28 Published: 01 January 1990
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: Should We Swallow Oral History
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms: Retrospect and Prospect
War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis
The Politics and Psychology of Restraint: Israeli Decision-Making in the Gulf War
Two horses were sitting at a bar reminiscing about the day's races. The strangest thing happened today,' said the first horse. 'I was waiting for the start of the fifth race at Rockingham Park, when I felt this odd twitch in my hind leg. As soon as the race started, I sprinted to the lead, and never looked back. I won by four lengths.' 'What a coincidence,' said the second horse. The same thing happened to me in the third race at Suffolk Downs. I…
Justice and the Genesis of War
Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behaviour inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type of normative motivation - the justice motive …
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House: Reappraising the Fall of the Shah and the Iran-Contra Affair
Political 're-education' and the use of radio in Germany after 1945
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