Barack Obama, the War on Terrorism and the US Hegemony

Positive emotions and the social broadening effects of Barack Obama.

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompt...

Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination

Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008

On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama [5] replaced Republican George W. Bush [6] as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush?s 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells [7]. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos ...

The Dynamic Political Economy of Support for Barack Obama

The Dynamic Political Economy of Support for Barack Obama During the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign In recent years, students of voting behavior have become increasingly interested in valence politics models of electoral choice. These models share the core assumption that key issues in electoral politics typically are ones upon which there is a widespread public consensus on the goals of p...

Cumulative Deterrence and the War on Terrorism

I n early 2003 an Israeli agent in the Gaza Strip telephoned Mustafa, a wealthy Palestinian merchant in Gaza, to inform him that over the previous three months his son Ahmad had been preparing for a suicide bombing mission in Israel. Mustafa was told that if his son followed through with his plans, he and his family would suffer severe consequences: their home would be demolished, and Israel wo...