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148449
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This article argues that, contrary to the assumptions of international relations scholars, policymakers, and the general public, states do not engage in oil wars. A twofold strategy is employed to support this assertion. First, the article scrutinizes the logical underpinnings of oil war claims, arguing that proponents have underestimated the obstacles to seizing and exploiting foreign resources and, consequently, exaggerated the likelihood of oil wars. Second, the article examines four conflicts that are commonly identified as international oil wars: Japan's attack on the Dutch East Indies in World War II, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Iran--Iraq War, and the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. It finds that the desire to control additional oil resources was not the fundamental cause of aggression in any of these conflicts. In the latter two cases, aggression was unconnected to oil interests. In the former, states fought for their survival, not for an oil prize.
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140212
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Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State is a modern classic. For two decades, Pierson’s theoretically innovative and empirically grounded account of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations’ retrenchment eff orts has provided the intellectual foundation for the study of the politics of the welfare state after the golden age. The winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the fi eld of US national policy, Dismantling the Welfare State has been cited some 3,500 times in Google Scholar and remains essential reading for scholars of comparative politics, American politics, and policy studies.
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166534
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Since Vindeby in 1991, more than 100 projects have been installed in Europe, and will need decommissioning one day. Despite the increasing number of projects reaching this phase, decommissioning is still an area that has received relatively little attention.
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140215
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The publication of Dismantling the Welfare State in 1994 emerged at a moment when the future of the welfare state was very much in doubt. The language of welfare cutbacks had forcefully entered public debates as both scholars and policymakers came to the realization that the postwar economic boom had passed. Throughout the 1980s, anti-welfare parties, espousing a vision of a leaner state, scored major electoral successes on both sides of the Atlantic. Simultaneously, in other sectors of the economy, policymakers began to engage in drastic deregulation and economic privatization.
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141439
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This article presents a proposed theory of how war economies are formed and maintained, as well as an integrated policy framework to guide the dismantling of war economies emanating from the proposed theory. Additionally, six potential areas for future research pertaining to the dismantling of war economies are also presented.
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140213
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Twenty years on, Paul Pierson’s book Dismantling the Welfare State has earned the stature of a classic text in our discipline. In rereading the book recently, I was struck by how innovative it was for its time, starting with its substantive contribution: when it was written, scholars were still trying to make sense of the creation of the welfare state, never mind eff orts to dismantle it. Along comes Pierson, examining what were then very recent political events by applying the analytical framework of historical institutionalism (Pierson 1994 ). This was truly novel when the book was published and remains a cuttingedge approach: we are still learning how analytical lenses for probing political change and development can help us to understand not only past but contemporary politics as well.
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