Browsing by Author "Starr, Harvey"

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The Analysis of Geopolitics: Reconceptualizing International Borders through the Application of GIS
(1996) Starr, Harvey
"Over the past 15 years there has been a renewed attention to the role and impact of geography in the study of international relations. Much of this is related to the 'new geopolitics' which treats geography as an essential part of the context of possibilities and constraints that face foreign policy decision makers. Based on earlier work which conceptualized and described international borders, this study seeks to establish a major reconceptualization and revision of how borders may be seen and measured. The use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) will permit a much fuller and clearer specification of borders by allowing us to talk about the specific qualities of borders in terms of opportunity and willingness: ease of interaction and salience, respectively. The reconceptualization will lead to the creation of a dataset which will permit us to go beyond simply observing the number of borders a state possesses, whether or not a border existed between two states, or the length of that border."
Democratic Peace and Integration: Survival and Legitimacy Across Levels of Analysis
(1999) Starr, Harvey
"The primary purpose of this paper is to review the connections that demonstrate the democratic peace to be a subset of more general integration processes. The following sections will discuss integration, democracy and legitimacy. I will show how the key element of the democratic peace—-the absence of large-scale military violence between democracies—-flows from the development of a Deutschian 'security community.' After pulling all of these elements together in a discussion of 'the good society,' the paper will turn to democracy and development."
Opportunity and Willingness and the Nexus Between Internal and External Conflict
(1991) Starr, Harvey
"In this paper I wish to focus on the synthesizing capabilities of the frameworks employed and the models already developed. This will be addressed in a section providing a brief review of the components of the project as presented in the earlier papers. I will then elaborate on the commonalities between internal and external conflict that can be drawn from the use of a more general social conflict perspective. The theme of commonalities will be expanded through the use of the opportunity and willingness framework, which will be outlined and applied to models of revolution or collective violence and models of war, especially hegemonic or system change war. Focusing on willingness, these commonalities will also be addressed using a general expected utility approach."
The Relationship Between Revolution and War: A Theoretical Overview
(1991) Starr, Harvey
"The aim of this project... is 'to develop a 'logic' and a set of concepts which can link a variety of internal and external conditions to a similar variety of internal and external behaviors. While the overall concern is with the internal-external linkage in general, the more specific concern — and application — of this project is with the study of social conflict.'"
War, Revolution, and Two-level Games: A Simple Choice-Theoretic Model
(1992) Starr, Harvey; McGinnis, Michael D.
"We focus on the decision problem of a government (or regime) facing external and domestic threats to it s security. For simplicity, we treat this governmental actor as a unitary rational actor. We also assume that this government (which we denote as actor i) faces threats from a set of other unitary actors, comprised of other governments j-1,2,...,J and domestic organizations or groups k-1,2,...K. Since government i must fin d some way to balance the threats posed by these various actors, and since dealing with tradeoffs between desired ends is the very essence of rationality, a rational choice approach seems particularly appropriate for modeling a government's efforts to manage two-level security problems. We assume that government i is fundamentally concerned with minimizing the probability that it will lose a war with any government j or that it will be overthrown after a revolution instigated by domestic groups k."