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Perspectives on Politics
Book Review of All Necessary Measures: The UN and Humanitarian Intervention The new issue of Perspectives on Politics (14: 1) contains my book review of All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention by Carrie Booth Walling (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). From the review: “The challenges of “humanitarian intervention” have been of pressing concern to policymakers and academics ever… Continue reading →
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Dissertation Award 2015 – German Political Science Association
Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict Receives Best Dissertation Award 2015 from the German Political Science Association (DVPW) At its general conference in Duisburg-Essen, The German Political Science Association (Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft) granted Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict: Military Involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) the Best Dissertation Award for 2015. The prize is endowed with… Continue reading →
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ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2015
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets Patrick A. Mello (Week 1), Carsten Q. Schneider (Week 2), Adrian Dusa, and Nena Oana (Teaching Assistants) Methods Course taught for the European Consortium for Political Research at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23 July – 8 August 2015 Course Outline: “This course introduces participants to set-theoretic methods and their application in the social… Continue reading →
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Democracy and War Involvement
Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict: Military Involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq “When do democracies participate in military operations, and under which conditions do they abstain? Studies on the democratic peace have largely neglected the flip-side of democratic participation in armed conflict. Moreover, whilst scholars have made the case that democracy needs to be unpacked to be meaningful, this is… Continue reading →
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ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2014
Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Related Approaches Patrick A. Mello (Week 1), Carsten Q. Schneider (Week 2), Priscilla Álamos-Concha, and Nena Oana (Teaching Assistants) Methods Course taught for the European Consortium for Political Research at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 July – 9 August 2014 Course Outline: “This course introduces participants to set-theoretic methods and their application in… Continue reading →
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Parliamentary peace or partisan politics?
Parliamentary peace or partisan politics? Democracies’ participation in the Iraq War Abstract: “This paper seeks to explain democracies’ military participation in the Iraq War. Prior studies have identified institutional and partisan differences as potential explanatory factors for the observed variance. The interaction of institutions and partisanship, however, has gone largely unobserved. I argue that these factors must be analyzed in… Continue reading →
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In Search of New Wars
In Search of New Wars: The Debate about a Transformation of War Abstract: “This article examines the literature on ‘new wars’ as it evolved in Germany, Great Britain and the USA. In order to gain an overview of this heterogeneous field of research five hypotheses are derived concerning characteristics of ‘new wars’: (1) the erosion of the state’s monopoly on… Continue reading →