principles and policy preferences is conditional on political sophistication, dominates the study of public opinion. This article argues that the sophistication-interaction theory does not hold to the degree the consensus claims. Specifically, it challenges the proposition that sophistication promotes the use of domain-specific beliefs and values. Analysis of 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990 NE...

Abstract Here we will present two research questions: first, why did Japan suddenly discontinue a quarter-century history of troop contribution to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs) in 2017; second, is there any possibility resuming large-scale military deployment. Hypothetically, argue that Japan’s retreat from South Sudan 2017 should be regarded not as the revival old anti-milita...

What makes violence martial? Contemporary militarism scholarship, owing to an analytical overdetermination of the role military institutions, frequently conflates martiality with writ large. Drawing upon illustrative case Adopt A Sniper, a US support charity founded by police officers operating during global war on terror and intended help supporters ‘directly contribute killing enemy’, this ar...

Abstract Pacifism and anarchism have been until recently largely missing on the landscape of international relations (IR) theories, even though they help articulate valuable nuanced reflections core IR themes such as war peace, structure order, multiple effects political violence. In particular, an analysis grounded in territory shared by pacifism offers a focused vantage point from which origi...

July 2020 this research team has been conducting joint with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea, and is now in its second year work. The composed researchers fields modern contemporary Japanese history, Korean literature, political science, as a result it ideally positioned to engage multidisciplinary research. In relation Korea-Japan relations such vital, because after Secon...

Abstract This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense morality, largely because degree violence inherent those structures. Under Fascism, morality was founded concrete examples rather than abstract principles. Exemplars idealized sources moral strength, figures with capaci...