Bringing Law to Bear on International Relations Theory Courses

International Law, International Relations and Compliance

Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decade the long-standing divide between those who believed that international rules per se shaped state behavior and those who saw such rules as epiphenomena1 or insignificant has given way to a mor...

Chunks and Dependencies: Bringing Processing Evidence to Bear on Syntax

At least some psycholinguists exploring how sentences are structured in linguistic behavior have concluded that the “performance structures” that emerge from experimental data differ from the syntactic structures hypothesized by linguists. For example, one measure of structure is the location and relative prominence of pauses when subjects read sentences aloud. Experiments have indicated that t...

Analysis of Ahmadinejad Government's Foreign Policy According to the Critical Theory of International Relations

The goal of this article is the analysis of Ahmadinejad government's foreign policy according to the critical theory of international relations. Whether it seems foreign policy of Mahmood Ahmadinejad, government is different from his before and after governments. Perhaps it could be provided more detailed and objective analysis from foreign policy of Islamic Republic of Iran during Ahmadinejad ...

Bringing Business Insight to Law

Bringing science to bear--on peace, not war: elaborating on psychology's potential to promote peace.

We argue that psychological and contextual factors play important roles in bringing about, facilitating, and escalating violent conflict. Yet rather than conclude that violent conflict is inevitable, we believe psychology's contributions can extend beyond understanding the origins and nature of violent conflict, to promote nonviolence and peace. In this article, we summarize psychological persp...