Joseph M. Parent

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Dissertation: E Pluribus Unum: Political Unification and Political Realism

• Chapter abstracts

• Writing sample (condensed version of chapters 1-3)

• Chapter 1: Introduction

• Chapter 2: A Realist Explanation of Political Unification

• Chapter 3: Force, Fraud, and the Founding of the American Constitution (plus appendix)

• Chapter 4: Switzerland, Staatenbund to Bundesstaat

• Chapter 5: The Liminal Union of Sweden and Norway

• Chapter 6: Bolívar’s Dreams of Gran Colombia

• Chapter 7: Australia, Revolution from Above Down Under

• Chapter 8: Conclusion

• Bibliography (also contains source material for some of the working papers)

Publication: Uncorrected page proofs of “Machiavelli’s Missing Romulus and the Murderous Intent of The Prince” forthcoming History of Political Thought (scheduled for vol. 26, no 4).

Working Papers:

• Central Authority and Order (co-authored with Emily Erikson)

• The Duel in International Relations

• Of Conspiracies: Machiavelli and Power Transition

• The Correlates of Contested Divorce: Testing Rationalist Explanations for Conflict

Teaching Information:

Statistical summary of evaluations as a teaching assistant at Columbia University

Statistical summary of evaluations as instructor at Hunter College

Summary of all comments on evaluations as a Columbia TA

Summary of all comments on evaluations as a Hunter instructor

Sample syllabus from “Classics of Conflict and Cooperation”