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Interviews In Global Catholic Studies: William T. Cavanaugh, Mathew N. Schmalz
Interviews In Global Catholic Studies: William T. Cavanaugh, Mathew N. Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
Mathew N. Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Catholicism, interviews William T. Cavanaugh, Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology at DePaul University.
International Relations Textbooks And The Problem Of International Order, Stephen A. Kocs
International Relations Textbooks And The Problem Of International Order, Stephen A. Kocs
Political Science Department Faculty Scholarship
The establishment and maintenance of order—that is, of settled rules and arrangements that regulate actors’ behavior—is central to politics at all levels, including the international level. Political order, after all, is a requisite for modern human existence. Given the priority of the problem of order, the most important questions that can be addressed in an introductory International Relations (IR) course are those that concern the sources, nature, and historical evolution of international order. But a survey of conventional introductory IR textbooks reveals that these questions are typically dealt with glancingly or ignored altogether. Thus a strong case can be made …