{"title":"Legacies of Transitions: Institutionalization, the Military, and Democracy in South America","authors":"F. Agüero","doi":"10.2307/254439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254439","url":null,"abstract":"Editor's Note: This Forum represents a departure from previous formats. Instead of focusing on different authors' perspectives on a particular topic, it involves the application of a specific framework to a set of five countries and explores how well the factors embedded in the framework facilitate understanding what is happening today in civil-military affairs in one part of the world. At issue is how does knowledge about the military's role in the democratization process help to explain civil-military relations in five Latin American countries whose turn to democracy was preceded by military-authoritarian rule. As with all Forums, the editor welcomes others' considered reactions to the arguments presented here.","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125934396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking Stock of Inter-American Bonds: Approaches to Explaining Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere","authors":"W. L. Hollist, D. Nielson","doi":"10.2307/254417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254417","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have furnished increasingly high-quality accounts of cooperation in the Americas during the 1980s and 1990s. The work has been rich empirically but sparse theoretically. This essay reviews the existing literature, providing a historical overview of the cooperation that has occurred as well as categorizing previous research into that focusing on internal versus external pressures for cooperation. The studies that explore international incentives for cooperation examine institutions, ideas, globalization, and the balance of power as potential explanations for what has happened, but fail to account for variation in individual countries' economic cooperativeness. The research focusing on internal pressures looks at domestic markets, politics, and bureaucracies, but often fails to step beyond the narrow case to consider a generalizable phenomenon. The article concludes with an argument in favor of a synthetic approach, calling for the careful specification of interaction effects linking international and domestic incentives.","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128302896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Assault on Tropical Rain Forests","authors":"Marvin S. Soroos","doi":"10.2307/254420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254420","url":null,"abstract":"Forests in International Environmental Politics: International Organizations, NGOs, and the Brazilian Amazon by Ans Kolk \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia by Peter Dauvergne.","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115113312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanitarian Intervention and Just War","authors":"Mona Fixdal, Dan Smith","doi":"10.2307/254418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254418","url":null,"abstract":"Humanitarian intervention is one of the primary international security problems of today. As an object analysis, it sits at the intersection of the realist and idealist traditions in the study of international relations. Despite its high profile, debate on humanitarian intervention is unsatisfactory; participants talk past one another and most discussion is devoid of ethical concepts. In particular, there is a striking absence of explicit reference to the Just War tradition. Only scholars of international law have explicitly and systematically examined normative issues, but their focus seems too narrow. The result is a series of what appear to be arbitrary judgments about when humanitarian intervention is justified combined with an often fundamental misunderstanding of the international system. This essay presents a sketch of the Just War tradition's main concepts and argues that it is both possible and advantageous to resort to them in discussing and evaluating humanitarian intervention. The article then applies these concepts to the recent debate on humanitarian intervention and shows that almost all of the concerns raised in this scholarship fit within the Just War framework. The essay focuses on the criteria from the Just War tradition that deal with when to resort to the use of armed force.","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122850462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Fiscal Sociology Brings Society Back In","authors":"H. Alker","doi":"10.2307/254424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254424","url":null,"abstract":"The Wealth of States: A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change by John M. Hobson","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114397948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risky States and Risky Behavior","authors":"A. Enterline","doi":"10.2307/254430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254430","url":null,"abstract":"Enforcing Cooperation: Risky States and Intergovernmental Management of Conflictedited by Gerald Schneider and Patricia A. Weitsman","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127736743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Victory to Peace","authors":"J. Rosenthal","doi":"10.2307/254432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123929077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Territory as Object and Pretext","authors":"M. Girard","doi":"10.2307/254425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"134 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114097458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign Policy Crises: Case Studies and Theory Building","authors":"A. Lamborn","doi":"10.2307/254428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/254428","url":null,"abstract":"Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making by Barbara Rearden Farnham \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making by Patrick J. Haney","PeriodicalId":198544,"journal":{"name":"Mershon International Studies Review","volume":"113 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114145266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}