Writings
Here are my two blogs:
THE TEACHER and
ALONE
- This is the recently completed final paper for my Masters degree in Political Science at Midwestern State University in Texas.
- Cognitive approaches to regime theory, or epistemic community model, are used with a
combination of other models of political economic theory to explain international interactions.
The world-wide economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s once and for all broke down the
walls of hands-off government views of the liberal economy--along with protectionist views of a
single state attempts at economic policy. In the post-Cold War era a study of the many theories of
political economy--from rational choice theory to interdependency through hegemonic,
dependency, and, even, anti-Malthusian theory--are applied to understand the formation of the
Climate Control Regime, which came fully into being with the Framework agreement in Kyoto in
December of 1997. This regime formation process is representative of the formation of a
growing number of regimes dealing with ecological and sustainability issues. The combined
variables under rationale choice, interdependency, and epistemic community theories best explain
this type of event.
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Memories All Around Us
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Memories All Around Us
Every American seems to have his or her memory of Vietnam, whether they experienced the Vietnam War personally, saw something in a movie, or heard stories that others have told. In preparing this paper, thirteen oral history tapes from both the �Vietnam Generation� and the �Military History� sections of the Cushing Library and Archives at Texas A & M University were first reviewed. These full recordings were then compared to memories of the Vietnam War era as portrayed in Hollywood films, song, and other popular manifestations of opinion and memory, such as monuments and public speeches, reflecting popular imagery concerning that era of the longest war in U.S. history. Finally, a review of political, foreign affairs and civil society activities in the post-Vietnam era are integrated into this review of both private and popular imagery. The focal question for this research is to demonstrate that the personal memories and interpretations found on oral history tapes and in individual public statements in archives concerning the Vietnam War period do to a great degree, in fact, resemble the publicly images currently seen in popular media, civil societal debate, and in politics.
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FEDERALIST PEACE THEORY
Here are other recent articles of mine from the THE TOUCHSTONE JOURNAL in Septemeber 2002:
A Peek Through the Texas/Mexican Wall � Living and Working in Meso-America 2002
and from 2003 February March
Peeking Through The Wall Between Mexico And The USA 2002
or
Looking Through the Wall Dividing Southwest U.S.A. from the Rest of Mesoamerica 2000-2003. Check them out!!!!!!!!
is one of my short-stories that touches the points where fiction and non-fiction meet. It also handles issues of memory, education, and limits to oral interviewing in research.
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