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The Color of Threat: Race, Threat Perception, and the Demise of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Start Date: 11/19/2013Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 11/19/2013End Time: 5:00 PM
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
Attachments For This Event:
    > The Color of Threat Flyer
Location:
MacAlister Hall, Room 5060, 3250-60 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Alumni
  • Current Students
  • Faculty
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