Professor Brian Rathbun (Ph.D, Berkeley 2002) joined the department in August 2006 after two years as an Assistant Professor at McGill University. His research focuses on the the role of ideology, particularly political parties, on foreign policy decision-making. He is currently working on a second book that explains why some parts of the political spectrum are ideologically drawn in foreign affairs towards what we understand in IR theory as structural or voluntarist conceptions of politics and the consequences for interwar year relations among France, Britain and Germany. Debates in IR theory amongst constructivists, realists and liberals are replicated in less explicit form amongst real practicing politicians and statesmen, an awareness of which can help explain outcomes such as the rise and fall of the League of Nations, Nazi Germany's early gambles towards hegemony in the 1930s and British appeasement. Other ongoing projects include the multiple meanings of uncertainty in international relations theory, the role of emotion in the decision to delegate sovereignty to international organizations, the epistemological status of the liberal paradigm, and the common structure of values underlying domestic and foreign policy opinions. His first book, Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans was published in December 2004 by Cornell University Press. He has published or is publishing numerous other articles on IR theory, qualitative methodology, transatlantic relations, and public opinion. Brian teaches courses on European foreign policy, international relations theory, international organizations and human rights and social movements.
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Explanation of Replication Files for "Hierarchy and Community at Home and Abroad:"
The .dta file contains the raw data of the 1996 FPLP survey of Holsti and Rosenau in Stata format. The Stata Do-file renames and recodes the variables as described in the text, generates the principal components analysis and the logit results with both standard coefficients and odds ratios.
Stata data File
Stat ado file
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