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Papers by Michael McKinley
Journal of Conflict Studies, 1991
NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal ... more NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal of terrorism-even if they are incapable of unanimously agreeing on a definition of what it is they are disavowing-and in a Western Europe which regards separatist and irredentist claims as anathema, mere is a natural tendency for those who are so excluded to make common cause where they might Disparate as these groups are, they really have only themselves to meet as equals; though they might wish to be nation states or represent nation states in the fullness of time, they exist until then as interlopers in the relations between states: seldom invited and then almost always disappointed by their reception. It is a world with which the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its more political expression, Sinn Fein, are entirely familiar and also one in which, given their history, political complexion, strategy and objectives, it would be extraordinarily strange for them not to have a wide range of international contacts. But potent as the reflex of commonality by exclusion is, it does not completely determine these linkages because to argue this is to argue on the basis of default rather than purpose. For the Provisionals there is a utility not only of making such contacts but also in formalizing them where possible within the movements' organizational structure. Thus, in 1976 the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis moved to establish, under the directorship of Risteard Behal, a Foreign Affairs Bureau, with Behal as its first "sort of roving European ambassador ... based in Brussels." As Behal explained:
The New Tridentine Moment in Global Politics?: Civil and Sectarian Religion and the United States... more The New Tridentine Moment in Global Politics?: Civil and Sectarian Religion and the United States in Crisis The end of the Cold War, which left the Soviet Union in a centrifugal state, concealed the fact that the United States enjoyed only a compromised victory. Since the destruction of the Berlin Wall the social, political, economic, and strategic vectors of the United States have led some scholars and commentators to describe the collective malaise as in terms reminiscent of the decline of the Roman Empire, or even worse, but the argument advanced in this paper is that there is compelling evidence to warrant a comparison with the period 1470-1530, the period of the Renaissance Popes. When the need for reform within the Western Church of the Latin Rite became so palpable, yet so frustrated, it provoked schism, and schism in turn was followed by widespread intolerance and war. Specifically, this paper argues that there are strong congruencies between the early period and the structural pathologies now afflicting the United States and they range from internal political economic corruption which fails its citizens to ambivalences and obsessions regarding the Middle East and Islam. Overall, the argument suggests that, failing a Tridentine reform project, the prospects for the immediate future are, once again, recklessness, intolerance, and the wars which beset declining great powers.
It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, wa... more It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, was able to support the derelicts of that war, the wives and children of prisoners, and those whose means of livelihood had been destroyed. 1
Acta Ophthalmologica, 2008
... Table 2, Revisionists&amp... more ... Table 2, Revisionists' and traditionalists Revisionists (« Frequency Book ShakespeareMarquez Woolf Chaucer Kingston Sophocles Morrison Homer Thoreau Bronte Melville Joyce Douglass Wright Chopin Note. Ratings are tbe to 7 (very revisionist). ...
The decade of the 1960s, in particular the second half of it, is frequently described as radical,... more The decade of the 1960s, in particular the second half of it, is frequently described as radical, largely because of the movements which grew to prominence in this time, and their legacies. Perhaps it is possible to say almost anything about an age, and therefore fruitless to make the attempt, especially since time has yet to exert the fullness of its discriminating influence. But certainly much of an identifiable nature seemed to be happening in these years. And a discussion of the Northern Ireland Question would be incomplete without brief reference to the international milieu at the time it reappeared. Although the decade of the 1960s was heralded by the lure of Camelot and the challenge of the New Frontier, its history, more often than not, records the failure of noble aspirations and of peaceful evolution as against violent revolution. If the '60s saw the age of Martin Luther King and the potential of non-violent protest, they also saw his assassination and the rise of Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Panthers. It was a time when Woodstock was eclipsed by Altamont, the 'days of rage' and Kent State. An era of protest, assertiveness, and revolution had dawned to live but briefly, but its dimension, for all of its short life span, was international. In the United States the President succumbed, in large part, to protests against a war he could not end. In France, what is now delicately called 'the events of May' (1968) shattered the monarchic authority of De Gaulle and, momentarily, brought the country to a standstill. In China the Red Guards staged a revolution from which the country has still to fully recover.
Washed in shades of grey, David Campbell quantum leaping - the Gulf debate in Australia and Canad... more Washed in shades of grey, David Campbell quantum leaping - the Gulf debate in Australia and Canada, Kim Richard Nossal the Gulf War and Australian political culture, James Richardson economic sanctions, middle powers, and the Gulf War - the opportunity costs of a military solution, Richard Leaver the Gulf War, Graeme Cheeseman Asian-Pacific responses to the Gulf war, Mohan Malik "the bitterness of being right" - reflection on alliance orthodoxy, the Gulf War, and the new world order, Michael McKinley.
Journal of Conflict Studies, Jun 6, 1991
NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal ... more NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal of terrorism-even if they are incapable of unanimously agreeing on a definition of what it is they are disavowing-and in a Western Europe which regards separatist and irredentist claims as anathema, mere is a natural tendency for those who are so excluded to make common cause where they might Disparate as these groups are, they really have only themselves to meet as equals; though they might wish to be nation states or represent nation states in the fullness of time, they exist until then as interlopers in the relations between states: seldom invited and then almost always disappointed by their reception. It is a world with which the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its more political expression, Sinn Fein, are entirely familiar and also one in which, given their history, political complexion, strategy and objectives, it would be extraordinarily strange for them not to have a wide range of international contacts. But potent as the reflex of commonality by exclusion is, it does not completely determine these linkages because to argue this is to argue on the basis of default rather than purpose. For the Provisionals there is a utility not only of making such contacts but also in formalizing them where possible within the movements' organizational structure. Thus, in 1976 the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis moved to establish, under the directorship of Risteard Behal, a Foreign Affairs Bureau, with Behal as its first "sort of roving European ambassador ... based in Brussels." As Behal explained:
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 1996
Page 1. Alternatives 21 (1996), 31-66 American Intelligence as American Knowing Michael McKinley*... more Page 1. Alternatives 21 (1996), 31-66 American Intelligence as American Knowing Michael McKinley* How does the United States make the world as an object of knowl-edge? How did the United States get whereit is intellectually? What ...
Journal of Conflict Studies, Mar 3, 1987
It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, wa... more It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, was able to support the derelicts of that war, the wives and children of prisoners, and those whose means of livelihood had been destroyed. 1
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1993
... 116 M. McKinley ... allegedly offered King Philip II of Spain: "He that will England... more ... 116 M. McKinley ... allegedly offered King Philip II of Spain: "He that will England win, let him in Ireland begin."15 Beyond strategic considerations, Henry VIII was well disposed toward a conquest of Ireland out of motives that the military historian GA Hayes-McCoy loosely refers to ...
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 1991
History of European Ideas, 1994
History of European Ideas, 1992
The Australian Quarterly, 1985
Journal of Conflict Studies, 1991
NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal ... more NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal of terrorism-even if they are incapable of unanimously agreeing on a definition of what it is they are disavowing-and in a Western Europe which regards separatist and irredentist claims as anathema, mere is a natural tendency for those who are so excluded to make common cause where they might Disparate as these groups are, they really have only themselves to meet as equals; though they might wish to be nation states or represent nation states in the fullness of time, they exist until then as interlopers in the relations between states: seldom invited and then almost always disappointed by their reception. It is a world with which the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its more political expression, Sinn Fein, are entirely familiar and also one in which, given their history, political complexion, strategy and objectives, it would be extraordinarily strange for them not to have a wide range of international contacts. But potent as the reflex of commonality by exclusion is, it does not completely determine these linkages because to argue this is to argue on the basis of default rather than purpose. For the Provisionals there is a utility not only of making such contacts but also in formalizing them where possible within the movements' organizational structure. Thus, in 1976 the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis moved to establish, under the directorship of Risteard Behal, a Foreign Affairs Bureau, with Behal as its first "sort of roving European ambassador ... based in Brussels." As Behal explained:
The New Tridentine Moment in Global Politics?: Civil and Sectarian Religion and the United States... more The New Tridentine Moment in Global Politics?: Civil and Sectarian Religion and the United States in Crisis The end of the Cold War, which left the Soviet Union in a centrifugal state, concealed the fact that the United States enjoyed only a compromised victory. Since the destruction of the Berlin Wall the social, political, economic, and strategic vectors of the United States have led some scholars and commentators to describe the collective malaise as in terms reminiscent of the decline of the Roman Empire, or even worse, but the argument advanced in this paper is that there is compelling evidence to warrant a comparison with the period 1470-1530, the period of the Renaissance Popes. When the need for reform within the Western Church of the Latin Rite became so palpable, yet so frustrated, it provoked schism, and schism in turn was followed by widespread intolerance and war. Specifically, this paper argues that there are strong congruencies between the early period and the structural pathologies now afflicting the United States and they range from internal political economic corruption which fails its citizens to ambivalences and obsessions regarding the Middle East and Islam. Overall, the argument suggests that, failing a Tridentine reform project, the prospects for the immediate future are, once again, recklessness, intolerance, and the wars which beset declining great powers.
It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, wa... more It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, was able to support the derelicts of that war, the wives and children of prisoners, and those whose means of livelihood had been destroyed. 1
Acta Ophthalmologica, 2008
... Table 2, Revisionists&amp... more ... Table 2, Revisionists' and traditionalists Revisionists (« Frequency Book ShakespeareMarquez Woolf Chaucer Kingston Sophocles Morrison Homer Thoreau Bronte Melville Joyce Douglass Wright Chopin Note. Ratings are tbe to 7 (very revisionist). ...
The decade of the 1960s, in particular the second half of it, is frequently described as radical,... more The decade of the 1960s, in particular the second half of it, is frequently described as radical, largely because of the movements which grew to prominence in this time, and their legacies. Perhaps it is possible to say almost anything about an age, and therefore fruitless to make the attempt, especially since time has yet to exert the fullness of its discriminating influence. But certainly much of an identifiable nature seemed to be happening in these years. And a discussion of the Northern Ireland Question would be incomplete without brief reference to the international milieu at the time it reappeared. Although the decade of the 1960s was heralded by the lure of Camelot and the challenge of the New Frontier, its history, more often than not, records the failure of noble aspirations and of peaceful evolution as against violent revolution. If the '60s saw the age of Martin Luther King and the potential of non-violent protest, they also saw his assassination and the rise of Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Panthers. It was a time when Woodstock was eclipsed by Altamont, the 'days of rage' and Kent State. An era of protest, assertiveness, and revolution had dawned to live but briefly, but its dimension, for all of its short life span, was international. In the United States the President succumbed, in large part, to protests against a war he could not end. In France, what is now delicately called 'the events of May' (1968) shattered the monarchic authority of De Gaulle and, momentarily, brought the country to a standstill. In China the Red Guards staged a revolution from which the country has still to fully recover.
Washed in shades of grey, David Campbell quantum leaping - the Gulf debate in Australia and Canad... more Washed in shades of grey, David Campbell quantum leaping - the Gulf debate in Australia and Canada, Kim Richard Nossal the Gulf War and Australian political culture, James Richardson economic sanctions, middle powers, and the Gulf War - the opportunity costs of a military solution, Richard Leaver the Gulf War, Graeme Cheeseman Asian-Pacific responses to the Gulf war, Mohan Malik "the bitterness of being right" - reflection on alliance orthodoxy, the Gulf War, and the new world order, Michael McKinley.
Journal of Conflict Studies, Jun 6, 1991
NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal ... more NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS In a world where nation states are unanimous in their disavowal of terrorism-even if they are incapable of unanimously agreeing on a definition of what it is they are disavowing-and in a Western Europe which regards separatist and irredentist claims as anathema, mere is a natural tendency for those who are so excluded to make common cause where they might Disparate as these groups are, they really have only themselves to meet as equals; though they might wish to be nation states or represent nation states in the fullness of time, they exist until then as interlopers in the relations between states: seldom invited and then almost always disappointed by their reception. It is a world with which the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its more political expression, Sinn Fein, are entirely familiar and also one in which, given their history, political complexion, strategy and objectives, it would be extraordinarily strange for them not to have a wide range of international contacts. But potent as the reflex of commonality by exclusion is, it does not completely determine these linkages because to argue this is to argue on the basis of default rather than purpose. For the Provisionals there is a utility not only of making such contacts but also in formalizing them where possible within the movements' organizational structure. Thus, in 1976 the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis moved to establish, under the directorship of Risteard Behal, a Foreign Affairs Bureau, with Behal as its first "sort of roving European ambassador ... based in Brussels." As Behal explained:
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 1996
Page 1. Alternatives 21 (1996), 31-66 American Intelligence as American Knowing Michael McKinley*... more Page 1. Alternatives 21 (1996), 31-66 American Intelligence as American Knowing Michael McKinley* How does the United States make the world as an object of knowl-edge? How did the United States get whereit is intellectually? What ...
Journal of Conflict Studies, Mar 3, 1987
It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, wa... more It was due to the lavish generosity of American citizens that our country, so ravished by war, was able to support the derelicts of that war, the wives and children of prisoners, and those whose means of livelihood had been destroyed. 1
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1993
... 116 M. McKinley ... allegedly offered King Philip II of Spain: "He that will England... more ... 116 M. McKinley ... allegedly offered King Philip II of Spain: "He that will England win, let him in Ireland begin."15 Beyond strategic considerations, Henry VIII was well disposed toward a conquest of Ireland out of motives that the military historian GA Hayes-McCoy loosely refers to ...
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 1991
History of European Ideas, 1994
History of European Ideas, 1992
The Australian Quarterly, 1985