Harvey Starr: Pioneer in the Study of Conflict Processes and International Relations (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 29)

This book sets out, through Starr’s personal story, his interest in how the ideas of “intellectual trajectories” and “political memories” could be incorporated into intellectual autobiography, thus exploring how the personal lives of individual academics intersected with their professional interests. By following the development of his approach to research, interdisciplinarity, the logic of inquiry, and the opportunity and willingness framework scholars and researchers will see how his groundbreaking research in Conflict Processes and International Relations Theory developed and were interlinked (especially diffusion, geography and spatiality; the democratic peace and integration; decision making). In addition, graduate students and junior faculty should find useful hints about how to navigate their way through the complexities of becoming both a professional and successful academic and scholar. • This book provides the most complete treatment of the work and contributions of Harvey Starr, a former President of the International Studies Association. • Important for contemporary students of international relations, and their understanding of IR theory and methods. • Demonstrates an eclectic linking of theoretical, logical, and empirical approaches to the study of IR—providing a critical logic of inquiry to do research. • Provides insights and blueprints for how to develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship, highlighting geography and social-psychology. • Affords graduate students and recent Ph.D.s guidance in the development of research, becoming a professional, and the choices to be made in one’s academic career. Preface and Acknowledgements Contents Part I On Harvey Starr 1 Getting from Then to Now: A Personal Intellectual Autobiography 1.1 Some Early Autobiographical Context 1.2 The Beginnings of an Intellectual Autobiography 1.3 The Foundations for The Intellectual Journey: SUNY Buffalo 1.4 Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Yale 1.4.1 Yale: Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Process 1.4.2 Bruce Russett: Initial Interactions and Mentoring 1.4.3 The Dissertation 1.5 Scotland and After 1.6 Scholarship: Career Themes 1.6.1 Conflict: Consequences and Processes 1.6.2 Opportunity and Willingness as Central to a Scholarly Agenda 1.6.3 O/W and My Major Scholarly Projects 1.6.3.1 World Politics: The Menu for Choice 1.6.3.2 Inquiry, Logic and International Politics [ILIP] 1.6.3.3 Two-Level Security Management Project 1.6.3.4 GIS Project on Reconceptualizing the Nature of Borders 1.6.3.5 Democracy and the Democratic Peace 1.6.3.6 Decision-Making, Cognitive Behaviorism, and Willingness: The Kissinger Project 1.6.4 An Overview of My Research Process 1.7 Concluding Thoughts 1.7.1 “I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends” 1.7.2 Back to Intellectual Autobiography and Trajectories References 2 A Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Harvey Starr 2.1 Books 2.2 Journal Articles 2.3 Book Chapters Part II Texts by Harvey Starr 3 Cumulation from Proper Specification: Theory, Logic, Research Design, and ‘Nice’ Laws Abstract 3.1 Applying the Research Triad: Theory, Nice Laws, and Substitutability 3.2 Illustrations with Ray’s Guidelines References 4 Opportunity, Willingness and the Diffusion of War, 1816–1965 4.1 Opportunity and Willingness in the Diffusion of War 4.2 Research Design and Data Generation 4.3 Findings 4.4 Do Opportunity and Willingness Influence War Diffusion? 4.5 How Much Do the Variables Contribute to War Diffusion? 4.6 A Problem? 4.7 Conclusion References 5 Democratic Dominoes: Diffusion Approaches to the Spread of Democracy in the International System 5.1 Democracy, Dominoes, and Diffusion 5.2 Governmental Transitions 5.3 Diffusion Approaches to Governmental Changes 5.4 Neighbor Effects and the Interaction Opportunity Model 5.5 Data and Descriptives 5.6 Analysis and Design: Global Effects 5.6.1 Poisson Analyses 5.7 Global Trends Toward Democracy 5.8 Regional Effects 5.9 Bordering Governmental Transitions: Neighbor Effects 5.10 Neighbor Effects: A First Cut 5.11 Neighbor Effects: A Second Cut 5.12 Conclusion References 6 On Geopolitics: Spaces and Places 6.1 Context: Time, Space, and Determinism 6.2 Context: Space and Spatiality 6.3 Relative Spaces 6.4 To Conclude References 7 Opportunity, Willingness and Geographic Information Systems: Reconceptualizing Borders in International Relations Abstract 7.1 Geopolitics, Borders and IR: A Brief Introduction 7.2 Conceptualizing (and Re-conceptualizing) Borders 7.3 Methodology: ARC/INFO and the Conceptualization—Operationalization of Borders 7.3.1 Opportunity for Interaction (Ease of Interaction) 7.3.2 Salience (Willingness) 7.3.3 A New Dataset on the ‘Nature’ of Borders 7.4 The Scientific Utility of a GIS-Generated Border Data Base 7.4.1 Revisiting IR Hypotheses with More Fully Specified Borders 7.4.2 Revisiting Borders as Part of the War Puzzle 7.5 Conclusion Acknowledgements References 8 Democracy and Integration: Why Democracies Don’t Fight Each Other 8.1 What Is to Be Explained? 8.2 The Confusion 8.3 Integration: Security Communities and the Democratic Peace 8.4 What Does Democracy Mean? 8.4.1 Democracy and Transparency 8.4.2 Lesser Forms of Conflict 8.5 Conclusion: Democracy and Integration References 9 The Kissinger Years: Studying Individuals and Foreign Policy 9.1 Kissinger, His Memoirs, and the Kissinger Industry 9.2 The Problem of Access 9.3 Psychological Approaches to the Study of Kissinger 9.4 Memoirs, Access, and Confidence: Some Specific Areas of Comparison 9.5 Kissinger and Richard M. Nixon: Nixon the Individual/Nixon the Statesman 9.6 Kissinger, Nixon, and the ‘Obstacle’ of the Bureaucracy 9.7 Dealing with the Soviet Union 9.8 Conclusion References About the University of South Carolina University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science This book sets out, through Starr's personal story, his interest in how the ideas of "intellectual trajectories" and "political memories" could be incorporated into intellectual autobiography, thus exploring how the personal lives of individual academics intersected with their professional interests. By following the development of his approach to research, interdisciplinarity, the logic of inquiry, and the opportunity and willingness framework scholars and researchers will see how his groundbreaking research in Conflict Processes and International Relations Theory developed and were interlinked (especially diffusion, geography and spatiality; the democratic peace and integration; decision making). In addition, graduate students and junior faculty should find useful hints about how to navigate their way through the complexities of becoming both a professional and successful academic and scholar." This book provides the most complete treatment of the work and contributions of Harvey Starr, a former President of the International Studies Association." Important for contemporary students of international relations, and their understanding of IR theory and methods." Demonstrates an eclectic linking of theoretical, logical, and empirical approaches to the study of IR--providing a critical logic of inquiry to do research." Provides insights and blueprints for how to develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship, highlighting geography and social-psychology." Affords graduate students and recent Ph. D.s guidance in the development of research, becoming a professional, and the choices to be made in one's academic career