International Theory / Volume 4 / Issue 03 / November 2012, pp 331 366 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971912000139, Published online: 31 October 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1752971912000139 How to cite this article: John MacMillan (2012). ‘Hollow promises?’ Critical materialism and the contradictions of the Democratic Peace. International Theory, 4, pp 331-366 doi:10.1...

This paper analyses preference evolution in a bargaining situation. We show that preferences for reciprocity, that sustain a conflict-free outcome, are viable if players have enough information about opponents’ preferences. However, depending on the initial starting point, preference evolution can in general both enhance or reduce subjective and material welfare, relative to the situation where...

Abstract Within the last couple of years, recently established field research called “New Materialism” has made its entry into studies Romanticism, and especially that Romantic body. Hitherto a subject explored through guises medicine, anatomy, physiology on one hand deconstruction poststructuralism other, body is now being re‐interpreted within itself vowed return to material agentive intercon...

the present study investigates the culture of development in hawrami proverbs. analysis of development-related variables is the basis of sociology. as collective phenomena, proverbs are part of the oral culture of a society and their investigation can sociologically explain cultural and social foundations of the society. this research attempts to specify 6 development-related parameters in hawr...

Marx and Freud pointed out our blindness about the unconscious causes of individual and collective behavior. Their revolutionary intent was to liberate humanity by taking conscious control. Jaspers' evaluation of historical materialism and psychoanalysis turns on the contested relations between objectivity and subjectivity and science and philosophy. He tracks their two systems through stages: ...