Use of Force and Diplomacy

The Mershon Center's first area of focus in international security studies is the use of force and diplomacy. This covers an array of projects, including:

• Rentier States and International Terrorism, which examines the relationship between states that export natural resources such as oil and terrorist acts.
• Ostpolitk and Israel, which looks at the tenuous relationship between West Germany and Israel between 1966 and 1974.
• Symbolic Opposition to the USA Patriot Act, which studies symbolic protest of the Patriot Act by city governments across the United States.
• Terror's Fourth Wave, which breaks down the countries of origin for those who perpetrate and those who are victims of terrorist acts.
• Mershon Network of International Historians, an online association for scholars engaged in the study of twentieth century European international relations.
• Economic Impact of Terrorist Incidents, which analyzes the affect of terrorism on the hospitality industry in Italy.
• Passport, the newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
• The Pathology of War Plans, which investigates why six countries implemented tremendously flawed plans for World War I.
• Reconstructing the Cold War, a social constructivist account of the Cold War.
• For Peace and Money, which examines foreign lending to Russia before World War I.

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