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Papers by Nancy Wright
The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 2021
The Indian Ocean region embodies the paradox of a marginalized crossroads. Its islands and coasta... more The Indian Ocean region embodies the paradox of a marginalized crossroads. Its islands and coastal societies reflect the multiple influences of its position as a commercial center during colonization and accompanying slave trade. Yet its island nations, particularly their literature, are little known relative to their mainland Asian and African counterparts. Mauritius further reflects these ironies. Although Mauritius has attained a positive reputation for stability, growth, and tourist appeal, deep inequalities resulting from economic globalization persist, to the detriment of its citizens. Uninhabited until the arrival of the Dutch in the sixteenth century, its national identity is the most multicultural of the Indian Ocean islands. Despite its history as a British colony and the designation of English as the language of school instruction and government administration, English-language Mauritian literature remains scarce. A primary exception is the work of novelist Lindsey Collen...
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008
The 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held on February 22–24, 2008, in San Jose, Ca... more The 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held on February 22–24, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year marks the fifth annual TLC. The conference uses the Working Group model, permitting in-depth discussion and debate amongst colleagues on research dealing with the scholarship of teaching and learning. In addition to the 12 Working Groups, there were workshops on various topics. This year there were over 300 registrants, including college and university faculty, graduate students, high school teachers, nonprofit representatives, and others. Michael Brintnall and Kimberly Mealy of APSA offered welcoming remarks. APSA President Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame, was the 2008 TLC opening speaker. Dr. Luis Fraga, former APSA council member and associate vice provost of the University of Washington, delivered the keynote address “The Responsibilities of Leadership: Political Science Education for the 21st Century.” The closing program featured short presentation...
Oasis
En la erudición de las relaciones internacionales (RI), las islas rara vez se consideran, excepto... more En la erudición de las relaciones internacionales (RI), las islas rara vez se consideran, excepto en contextos específicos, y esos contextos rara vez involucran dimensiones que convencionalmente se consideran importantes. La mayoría de las islas, ya sean soberanas, semiautónomas o completamente no autónomas, están relegadas a los márgenes de la erudición de las RI. Este artículo desafía la validez de esta marginación al presentar y examinar islas autónomas tanto soberanas como no soberanas como actores internacionales. Estos ejemplos ilustran la gran paradoja de las islas, a saber, que a lo largo de la historia estas han funcionado como puntos centrales en lugar de ideas secundarias y, debido a ese papel central, las islas encarnan la síntesis de la cultura y la política que constituyen nuevas identidades. Las islas artificiales aportan una mayor complejidad pasada por alto al ejercer una autonomía libre de soberanía. Finalmente, las islas, especialmente los países insulares pequeño...
Scholarly literature on United Nations (UN) peace operations has increased both in volume and com... more Scholarly literature on United Nations (UN) peace operations has increased both in volume and complexity since the first peacekeeping mission was implemented shortly after the UN's creation. Early scholarship focused on efforts to build a conceptual and theoretical framework for peacekeeping; later studies assessed the successes and failures of individual missions. Throughout the Cold War era, both peace operations and studies of them focused on interstate conflicts, albeit with acknowledgment of internal dimensions. With the end of the post-Cold War era, both a short-lived optimism about new peacekeeping possibilities, coupled with a normative shift from a focus on sovereignty to the inclusion of human rights protection and post-conflict peacebuilding, led UN peace operations into complex situations with equally complex mandates, and complications that frustrated the overall effectiveness sought in the absence of superpower gridlock. This brief conceptual article highlights a selected few studies of UN peace operations that took place both during and after the Cold War era to illustrate that the dichotomies of Cold War and post-Cold War time periods, as well as the distinction between interstate and intrastate conflicts, is not as salient to the conflicts
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2010
The seventh annual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,... more The seventh annual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from February 5 to 7, 2010, with 224 attendees onsite. The theme for the meeting was “Advancing Excellence in Teaching Political Science.” Using the working-group model, the TLC track format encourages in-depth discussion and debate on research dealing with the scholarship of teaching and learning.
OASIS
Los Estados soberanos más pequeños del mundo, que de hecho comprenden la mayoría de los Estados ... more Los Estados soberanos más pequeños del mundo, que de hecho comprenden la mayoría de los Estados soberanos en todo el mundo, tienen mucho que enseñarnos sobre las diferentes interpretaciones del poder. La gran parte de los estudios de relaciones internacionales (ir) se han centrado tradicionalmente en el poder como control o coerción; sin embargo, el poder también puede significar capacidad, que se logra a través de lo que este artículo identifica como agencia creativa. Aquí, la agencia creativa se define como la capacidad de acuerdo con la forma en que uno interpreta el poder y los beneficios asociados con ese poder. Por lo tanto, ciertos componentes del poder, como la hegemonía regional o global, pueden no ser relevantes para la agencia creativa; por el contrario, una identidad cultural fuerte o una economía de nicho puede ser esencial. Este artículo divide los Estados pequeños en tres categorías: (1) 2 microestados, definidos aquí como Estados con poblaciones de menos de medio...
Recent technological changes, particularly in the field of communications, have brought the world... more Recent technological changes, particularly in the field of communications, have brought the world much closer than ever in the history of humankind. These changes, sometimes called globalization, require a paradigm shift in our thinking, teaching materials, and methods of delivery. This quantum leap is required not only in the subfield of international relations, but rather in all subfields of political science. There is also a dire need to learn from each others' experiences and give new direction to our teaching subfields.
The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 2021
The Indian Ocean region embodies the paradox of a marginalized crossroads. Its islands and coasta... more The Indian Ocean region embodies the paradox of a marginalized crossroads. Its islands and coastal societies reflect the multiple influences of its position as a commercial center during colonization and accompanying slave trade. Yet its island nations, particularly their literature, are little known relative to their mainland Asian and African counterparts. Mauritius further reflects these ironies. Although Mauritius has attained a positive reputation for stability, growth, and tourist appeal, deep inequalities resulting from economic globalization persist, to the detriment of its citizens. Uninhabited until the arrival of the Dutch in the sixteenth century, its national identity is the most multicultural of the Indian Ocean islands. Despite its history as a British colony and the designation of English as the language of school instruction and government administration, English-language Mauritian literature remains scarce. A primary exception is the work of novelist Lindsey Collen...
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008
The 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held on February 22–24, 2008, in San Jose, Ca... more The 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held on February 22–24, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year marks the fifth annual TLC. The conference uses the Working Group model, permitting in-depth discussion and debate amongst colleagues on research dealing with the scholarship of teaching and learning. In addition to the 12 Working Groups, there were workshops on various topics. This year there were over 300 registrants, including college and university faculty, graduate students, high school teachers, nonprofit representatives, and others. Michael Brintnall and Kimberly Mealy of APSA offered welcoming remarks. APSA President Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame, was the 2008 TLC opening speaker. Dr. Luis Fraga, former APSA council member and associate vice provost of the University of Washington, delivered the keynote address “The Responsibilities of Leadership: Political Science Education for the 21st Century.” The closing program featured short presentation...
Oasis
En la erudición de las relaciones internacionales (RI), las islas rara vez se consideran, excepto... more En la erudición de las relaciones internacionales (RI), las islas rara vez se consideran, excepto en contextos específicos, y esos contextos rara vez involucran dimensiones que convencionalmente se consideran importantes. La mayoría de las islas, ya sean soberanas, semiautónomas o completamente no autónomas, están relegadas a los márgenes de la erudición de las RI. Este artículo desafía la validez de esta marginación al presentar y examinar islas autónomas tanto soberanas como no soberanas como actores internacionales. Estos ejemplos ilustran la gran paradoja de las islas, a saber, que a lo largo de la historia estas han funcionado como puntos centrales en lugar de ideas secundarias y, debido a ese papel central, las islas encarnan la síntesis de la cultura y la política que constituyen nuevas identidades. Las islas artificiales aportan una mayor complejidad pasada por alto al ejercer una autonomía libre de soberanía. Finalmente, las islas, especialmente los países insulares pequeño...
Scholarly literature on United Nations (UN) peace operations has increased both in volume and com... more Scholarly literature on United Nations (UN) peace operations has increased both in volume and complexity since the first peacekeeping mission was implemented shortly after the UN's creation. Early scholarship focused on efforts to build a conceptual and theoretical framework for peacekeeping; later studies assessed the successes and failures of individual missions. Throughout the Cold War era, both peace operations and studies of them focused on interstate conflicts, albeit with acknowledgment of internal dimensions. With the end of the post-Cold War era, both a short-lived optimism about new peacekeeping possibilities, coupled with a normative shift from a focus on sovereignty to the inclusion of human rights protection and post-conflict peacebuilding, led UN peace operations into complex situations with equally complex mandates, and complications that frustrated the overall effectiveness sought in the absence of superpower gridlock. This brief conceptual article highlights a selected few studies of UN peace operations that took place both during and after the Cold War era to illustrate that the dichotomies of Cold War and post-Cold War time periods, as well as the distinction between interstate and intrastate conflicts, is not as salient to the conflicts
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2010
The seventh annual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,... more The seventh annual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from February 5 to 7, 2010, with 224 attendees onsite. The theme for the meeting was “Advancing Excellence in Teaching Political Science.” Using the working-group model, the TLC track format encourages in-depth discussion and debate on research dealing with the scholarship of teaching and learning.
OASIS
Los Estados soberanos más pequeños del mundo, que de hecho comprenden la mayoría de los Estados ... more Los Estados soberanos más pequeños del mundo, que de hecho comprenden la mayoría de los Estados soberanos en todo el mundo, tienen mucho que enseñarnos sobre las diferentes interpretaciones del poder. La gran parte de los estudios de relaciones internacionales (ir) se han centrado tradicionalmente en el poder como control o coerción; sin embargo, el poder también puede significar capacidad, que se logra a través de lo que este artículo identifica como agencia creativa. Aquí, la agencia creativa se define como la capacidad de acuerdo con la forma en que uno interpreta el poder y los beneficios asociados con ese poder. Por lo tanto, ciertos componentes del poder, como la hegemonía regional o global, pueden no ser relevantes para la agencia creativa; por el contrario, una identidad cultural fuerte o una economía de nicho puede ser esencial. Este artículo divide los Estados pequeños en tres categorías: (1) 2 microestados, definidos aquí como Estados con poblaciones de menos de medio...
Recent technological changes, particularly in the field of communications, have brought the world... more Recent technological changes, particularly in the field of communications, have brought the world much closer than ever in the history of humankind. These changes, sometimes called globalization, require a paradigm shift in our thinking, teaching materials, and methods of delivery. This quantum leap is required not only in the subfield of international relations, but rather in all subfields of political science. There is also a dire need to learn from each others' experiences and give new direction to our teaching subfields.