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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

open access: yesAnn N Y Acad Sci
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Atran S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Why do great powers expand? Offensive realist John Mearsheimer claims that states wage an eternal struggle for power, and that those strong enough to seek regional hegemony nearly always do.
Rendall, Matthew
core   +2 more sources

Frustration–aggression hypothesis reconsidered: The role of significance quest

open access: yesAggressive Behavior, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 445-468, September 2023., 2023
Abstract One of the oldest scientific theories of human aggression is the frustration–aggression hypothesis, advanced in 1939. Although this theory has received considerable empirical support and is alive and well today, its underlying mechanisms have not been adequately explored.
Arie W. Kruglanski   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 749-767, August 2023., 2023
This article tests the plausibility of an affect‐centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations.
Harald Edinger
wiley   +1 more source

The irony of just war? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
By claiming that “just war is just war,” critics suggest that just war theory both distracts from and sanitizes the horror of modern warfare by dressing it up in the language of moral principles. However, the phrase can also be taken as a reminder of why
O'Driscoll, Cian
core   +1 more source

Hollywood’s Raid on Entebbe : Behind the Scenes of the United States-Israel alliance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Diplomatic History following peer review. Under embargo until 8 December 2018.
Goodman, Giora, Shaw, Tony
core   +2 more sources

The Coming Multi-Order World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The article shows that the current international system is changing towards a completely new form of international system, conceptualized as a multi-order system. The suggestion for a multi-order world stands in contrast to three current narratives about
Flockhart, Trine
core   +1 more source

The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything

open access: yes, 2023
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue S1, Page 31-44, September 2023.
Tom Casier
wiley   +1 more source

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