Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory

A Precarious Solidarity Between Christian Democratic & Social Democratic Understandings of Solidarity Concerning Re- allocation of Refugees

Yahweh Is Exalted in Justice: Solidarity and Conflict in Isaiah

This book is a revision of the author’s doctoral dissertation supervised by Paul D. Hanson. The main task of the book is to make an “exhaustive study of justice (misspa at) in the book of Isaiah that is sensitive to both literary and historical [and theological] concerns” (9). Intersecting through the entire book of Isaiah, this term is carefully examined in each occurrence for its correlated a...

Testing Democratic Peace Theory: A New Approach with Application to The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict∗

International relations scholars have developed many theories to describe the evolution and existence of international conflicts. One important idea is the “democratic peace,” which argues that democracies are less likely to engage in conflict with each other. However, much of the work testing democratic peace theory has been static and does not address dynamic, causal mechanisms by which democ...

The Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

The purpose of this essay is twofold. First is to analyze the role of insurgent groups in the anti-Kabila civil war in the Congo within the statist approach, which endows the state with considerable autonomy in defining the nature of states’ preferences and developing solutions to them. The essay also contends that the statist approach is not sufficient, however. Once enmeshed in a stalemated w...

Conflict theory.

This essay covers three broad topics. First, there has been renewed debate about human nature and the roots of intergroup violence and warfare in evolutionary biology, in psychology, and in anthropology. The “ordinary man” hypothesis explains why and how humans justify and participate in violence and atrocities. Second, in addition to interstate wars, political scientists have been studying ins...