Political Generations in American Politics: Insights from Research in International Relations

The Forum ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Luecke
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
International Relations ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Generations ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Further Development

AbstractThe last decade has witnessed renewed interest in the concept of political generations and the role of generations in foreign and domestic politics. The purpose of this article is to discuss a number of patterns and insights concerning political generations in American politics that derive from my own research in international relations. In pursuit of this goal, I summarize a theory of political generations and explain how it was applied empirically. In the second half of the essay, I discuss what generational analysis might tell us about the study of political change and stability, the presidency, voters, social movements, parties, and bureaucracies. Finally, I briefly engage the methodological problems that can arise from the fact that political generations are in important respects socially constructed through public discourses, in the context of the work on the “Millennial Generation” conducted by the Pew Research Center. While this article can only suggest patterns and initial ideas for further development and research, the hope is that it will help to push forward research on political generations across disciplinary sub-fields.

scholarly journals Translation as Facilitator of Social Movements in Late Qing China: A Skopos Theory Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Qing Liang Meng
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Skopos Theory ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
History Of

Unlike the previous two translation waves in the history of China, the third translation wave beginning from LateQing period can be seen as a cross-cultural communication under confrontation and conflict between China andwestern powers. Missionaries and government officials from western powers, institutions affiliated to government,and social activists were actively engaged in various translation activities for their respective purposes by means ofcooperation, which had not only promoted western learning in China and facilitated Chinese social movements andreform, but finally brought the Qing Dynasty to an end in the Chinese Revolution of 1911. This paper aims toexplore the facilitating role of translation in social movements and reforms in China during the time of the Late QingDynasty from Skopos Theory Perspective, in order to show that translators as social activists can not only promoteintercultural communication, but also push forward social changes and help nation building. This translation wave ischaracterized by urgency, purposefulness and practicality, and played the role of enlightening people, spreadingwestern learning and facilitating revolution.  

Significant Research Findings in the Etiology of Child Abuse

1984 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 337-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Further Development

Three variables—the role of the child, the psychological/personality factors of the parent, and sociological-environmental factors—are used as bases for analyzing current findings. The analysis indicates methodological problems and the need for further development of knowledge.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
And Gender

94 entries This encyclopedia reviews and interprets a broad array of research on Latin American politics, including topics related to political institutions, processes, and parties; social movements; political economy; racial and gender politics; and Latin America’s international relations. Under the editorial directorship of Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost and associate editors Jennifer Cyr, Kwame Dixon, Mary K. Meyer McAleese, Gabriel Ondetti, and Richard Stahler-Sholk, this publication brings together peer-reviewed contributions by leading researchers and offers the definitive resource for understanding contemporary politics in the region. As a result, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics is a necessary resource for students and as well as both new and established scholars.

The international politics of truth: C. Wright Mills and the sociology of the international

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Bryan Mabee
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The World ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
International Power ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
Structural Determinant

Abstract C. Wright Mills's critical work on international relations is well known, but is often dismissed as being unscholarly, reductionist, and overly polemical. However, seeing the work in the context of his earlier career can allow for a new perspective, with Mills's activist views on war and militarism shaped very clearly by his earlier theoretical and political commitments. Mills developed a distinctive political sociological understanding of international politics, theorising the state as a historically-situated structural determinant of international power: a network of elite power that was contextualised by the influence of the socially constructed realities of the international created by elites. Mills's crucial critical contribution was to see the role of the intellectual as criticising these realities through the imaginative reconceptualisation of the world, which he called the ‘politics of truth’. The article argues the international politics of truth was not only Mills's distinctive theory of the international, but that it was clearly supported by his early theorisation of the international. A revised view of the importance of Mills's international relations work can help to situate Mills as part of a broader tradition of IR scholarship, a lost lineage of the critical historical and political sociology of the international.

Internet’s Role In Forming Information Culture And Foreign Language Competence of Ir Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 69-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ю. Антонова ◽  
Yu. Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Further Development

The article underlines the significance of information and information culture as basic elements of society which support its existence and stimulate its further development. Accumulation, preservation and transfer of the information as evolution of the information culture stimulate the development of technologies which causes changes in various spheres of human activities and influences their communication practices. It fosters technological advances in modes of information transmission. This way the author considers the process of the forming and developing information culture of international relations students through the prism of their educational activities. The article provides outcomes of social research which underline the significant role of television and Internet in the life and social practices of IR students. The author focuses attention on the analysis of social research singling out young people as the most active Internet’s user. The article considers Internet as an environmental component of the information space of students from universities of international relations and as the environment, which specific influences their information culture within their activity in virtual environment. The author further estimates Internet’s role in forming the autonomy of IR students, which stimulates the development of their cognitive activities as well as forms a trilateral model of their social and career personality that includes individual, professional and foreign language competence.

International Relations Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Scott L. Kastner
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Dyadic Relationship ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

The purpose of this state-of-the-field article is to take stock of the use of international relations theory in the study of cross-Strait relations since 2000. To what degree have studies of cross-Strait relations made use of international relations theory since 2000, and to what degree has international relations theory provided useful insights for understanding Beijing–Taipei relations? I focus my attention on five topics in particular: the prospects for armed conflict in the Taiwan Strait; alliance/alignment politics and the u.s.–China–Taiwan triangular relationship; interactions between domestic politics (in Taipei and Beijing) and the cross-Strait dyadic relationship; cross-Strait economic integration in the shadow of political conflict; and the role of psychology, emotion, and identity in shaping cross-Strait interactions. For each topic, I survey recent studies that apply rigorous international relations theory to the cross-Strait relationship, and where appropriate I make suggestions for further development.

How do international norms matter? The impact of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Alessia Donà
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Case Law ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Central Question ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
The Impact

The role of the international norms in domestic politics is a central question in international relations. This article examines the major international treaty on the human rights of women, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and its impact on Italian politics, specifically on domestic legislation, case law and civil society activism, and institutional structure. The research contributes to the general debate on international norms diffusion and implementation, and identifies the factors which enable states to comply with these norms.

scholarly journals Pakistan’s Politics of Alliances and the Role of Pakistani Military in Politics (1954-1958): Uneven and Combined Development

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Ali Jibran ◽  
Syed Ali Shah ◽  
Muhammad Bilal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Uneven And Combined Development ◽  
The Impact

The states have to adjust to the pressure exerted by the 'international'; yet impact of the 'international' on national politics has been ignored by mainstream international relations theories. This study uses a framework of "Uneven and Combined Development" to investigate the impact of Pakistan's inclusion in the United States led defense pacts on Pakistan military's role in domestic politics from 1954 to 1958. The central finding of this research is that the United States preferred Pakistan military over political leadership in Pakistan to checkmate communism in Asia as well as to stop communist political parties gaining power in Pakistan. By participating in these international pacts, the role of Pakistan military expanded in politics which culminated in the first martial law (1958).

Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
European Community ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Treaty Negotiations ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
Political Game

Domestic politics and international relations are often inextricably entangled, but existing theories (particularly “state-centric” theories) do not adequately account for these linkages. When national leaders must win ratification (formal or informal) from their constituents for an international agreement, their negotiating behavior reflects the simultaneous imperatives of both a domestic political game and an international game. Using illustrations from Western economic summitry, the Panama Canal and Versailles Treaty negotiations, IMF stabilization programs, the European Community, and many other diplomatic contexts, this article offers a theory of ratification. It addresses the role of domestic preferences and coalitions, domestic political institutions and practices, the strategies and tactics of negotiators, uncertainty, the domestic reverberation of international pressures, and the interests of the chief negotiator. This theory of “two-level games” may also be applicable to many other political phenomena, such as dependency, legislative committees, and multiparty coalitions.

scholarly journals THE PLEBISCITI CONCEPT OF A NATION BY ERNEST RENAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Roman Korshuk
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
National Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Common

The article analyses the concept of the nation of the French thinker Ernest Renan. The role of objective factors in nation-building processes is considered, the inadmissibility of absolutisation of the role of these factors in the formation of the nation is indicated. The reasons for E. Renan's criticism of the identification of nation and race are investigated. In particular, the anti-scientific and anti-democratic nature of such identification is pointed out. The concept of the nation as a daily plebiscite and its connection with the common history and destiny is analysed. The importance of the national idea in the process of nation formation is pointed out. In particular, the role of national myths, the myths of the "victim nation" and the "hero nation", and historical oblivion in the processes of nation-building is analysed. The results of the study were obtained by applying the following methods: structural and functional - to analyse the role of objective and subjective factors influencing the processes of nation-building, their relationship; comparative - to compare the importance of territory, dynasty, statehood, common interests, race, language, religion and national identity in the process of nation-building; institutional method - for the analysis of the daily plebiscite as a process of mental and socio-political institutionalisation of the collective will, which is the basis for the continuous reproduction of the national community; causal analysis - to reveal the specific historical circumstances of the formation of the plebiscite concept of the nation of E. Renan, in particular the influence on the formation of his views on the consequences of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Ernest Renan entered the history of the development of socio-political thought as the author of the concept of the nation, which is a combination of psychological, historical and democratic elements. Renan's concept organically combines national identity as the basis of the nation with the democratic nature of national choice (daily plebiscite). This combination forms nationally conscious citizens who together make up the nation and embody its collective will. The existence of nations as the collective wills of nationally conscious individuals is the key to the law in domestic politics and international relations.

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