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Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
In My Own Words:
In my hometown, I think the kids are still growin’ up in the same way, still fightin’ in the same streets, drinkin’ beer in the same pubs, talkin’ the same language. I can’t see it changin’. Today, everybody is scared, scared of growing up, but scared to death of kids, listenin’ to them like they have something to say. When I was a teen-ager, if I tried to tell my old man what to do, he’d tell me … Read moreIn my hometown, I think the kids are still growin’ up in the same way, still fightin’ in the same streets, drinkin’ beer in the same pubs, talkin’ the same language. I can’t see it changin’. Today, everybody is scared, scared of growing up, but scared to death of kids, listenin’ to them like they have something to say. When I was a teen-ager, if I tried to tell my old man what to do, he’d tell me to shut up or I’d see the backside of his hand. He’d say, ‘When you’re man enough to take me, then come around.’ I’d wear big shoulder pads, a greatcoat and stick my chest out to try to look as old as I could. I’d take my girl friend out to a dance and look every boy straight in the eye and say ‘If you touch her, I’ll break your bones.’ Then I’d take a cigarette out and light it up like a man. I don’t see that happening today. Nobody wants to fight, not for his woman, not for his country. They all want the easy way. That’s what is wrong with drugs. It takes a man to drink liquor. See, you can get high smokin’ pot and never get sick. But it takes a man to hold his liquor or be able to pay the penalty. My father, a coal miner, is my ideal. I dig him because he works hard and drinks hard, and he’d fight any man. And I love him for that. When I meet other men on the street, they say, ‘Hey, you’re Tony Woodward’s son.’ And I say, ‘Yeh.’ They respect him, you know. He is a real man’s man, and I’ve always wanted to be like him.
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For Stone Sweet, initially, diplomatic representatives of member state governments bargain rationally to create institutions that begin to take on a life of their own, eventually resembling those of a domestic polity. Thus, Stone Sweet shows how theories of international relations and intergovernmentalism become less and less relevant to the European Union, as the reach of EU law grows. Because any explanation for the power of the European Court of Justice relies on institution building and institutional effects, the most powerful current theories of EU politics are "institutionalist" in nature, bridging the divide between domestic and international politics. For Stone Sweet, these… Read more
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Peter Gourevitch ended his famous 1978 "Second Image Reversed" article with a call for analysts to conduct more work on how the international system affects domestic political coalitions and their struggle for power. Perhaps the most important work that arose out of Gourevitch's call to coalition analysis was Rogowski's "Commerce and Coalitions" (1989), which parsimoniously and elegantly engaged both the second-image reversed literature and the literature on domestic coalitions. Rogowski responds to work that had previously looked at domestic coalition (cleavage) formation, without considering international trade, such as Lipset and Rokkan (1967) and Moore (1967)… Read more
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How does this book fare against the neorealist godfather? The "strategic choice" approach of Lake and Powell, unlike that of Waltz, is strongly predicated on methodological individualism and the importance of unit-level rationality, meaning that the preferences and strategies of individual actors are more important for Lake and Powell than for Waltz. Stein's chapter (in this book) calls for beginning with "purposive, intentionalist, rational explanations of behavior" (198) and then adding the component of actor interaction, in a bottom-up way. While Lake and Powell do try to cast themselves as agreeing with Waltz that "actors' intentions are not always a sufficient explanation for… Read more
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