"Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of enlargement. At the same time, these attempts to d ..."
Process Tracing From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Strategies for Social Inquiry) by Andrew Bennett, JeffreyT. Checkel Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-04452-4, ISBN: 1-107-04452-9
"Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal mechanisms. This book argues that the method known as process tracing is particularly well suited to developing and assessing theories about such mechanisms. The editors begin by establishing a philosophical basis for process tracing - one that captures mainstream uses while simultaneously b ..."
Process Tracing From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Strategies for Social Inquiry) by Andrew Bennett, JeffreyT. Checkel, Jacob Mandell Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-68637-3, ISBN: 1-107-68637-7
European Identity(1st Edition) (Contemporary European Politics) by JeffreyT. Checkel, Peter J. Katzenstein Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70953-8, ISBN: 0-521-70953-9
"The remarkable, peaceful end of the Cold War dramatically—and unexpectedly—transformed international politics toward the end of the twentieth century. At the heart of this amazing change was the struggle over new and old ideas. Drawing on rich data from interviews with key Soviet architects of "new thinking" and of Gorbachev-era policy reforms, Jeffrey Checkel offers an absorbing historical narrative of political change in the late Sovi ..."
"Civil wars are the dominant form of violence in the contemporary international system, yet they are anything but local affairs. This book explores the border-crossing features of such wars by bringing together insights from international relations theory, sociology, and transnational politics with a rich comparative-quantitative literature. It highlights the causal mechanisms - framing, resource mobilization, socialization, among others ..."
"Challenging dominant assumptions in international relations, Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions change more frequently? and less dramatically? than is commonly thought and with important consequences for the political landscape. Combining theory with solid empirical research? including archival evidence and interviews? the contributors explore the causes and consequences of institutional transformation in t ..."
"x List of Contributors Liesbet Hooghe is Professor of Political Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ... Alastair Iain Johnston is the
Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at
Harvard University. Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture
and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton ... leading journals, including
International Organization, Comparati ..."