Start Date: | 11/19/2013 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
End Date: | 11/19/2013 | End Time: | 5:00 PM |
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Event Description Zoltan Buzas, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Drexel University
Race is understudied in international relations, generally, and international security, specifically. To mitigate this omission, this talk provides a racial theory of threat perception. It argues that, under certain conditions, racial prejudices embedded in racial identities shape threat perceptions and generate behavioral dispositions. In the first step, racial similarity deflates threat perceptions, while racial differences inflate them. In the second step, deflated threat perceptions facilitate cooperation among racially similar agents, while inflated threat perceptions facilitate discord among racially different agents. Using extensive archival and secondary sources, the talk illustrates the explanatory value of the theory in the case of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923). |
Contact Information: Name: Melissa Mansfield Phone: 215-895-6764 Email: mmm462@drexel.edu |
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Location: MacAlister Hall, Room 5060, 3250-60 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience: AlumniCurrent StudentsFacultyParents & FamiliesProspective StudentsPublicStaff |
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