Author's Keywords: revisionism; path dependence; identity commitment; France (1848-71); grand strategy; rhetorical entrapment; constructivism; neorealism	Convention Submission, Review, and Scheduling! All Academic Convention can help with all of your abstract management needs and many more. Contact us today for a quote! Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Lyall, Jason. "Of Predators and Pariahs: Path Dependence and the Social Origins of the Revisionist State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 24, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62655_index.html>

Lyall, J. , 2003-08-24 "Of Predators and Pariahs: Path Dependence and the Social Origins of the Revisionist State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62655_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Why do revisionist states arise in world politics? Indeed, North Korea’s uncertain aims, the steady march of a rising China, and the fragile nature of a nuclear-armed Pakistan all underscore the pressing need to understand why and when states challenge an existing status quo. Surprisingly, there are few dedicated studies of such actors. Moreover, existing neorealist and rationalist arguments suffer from a number of important limitations, including a reluctance to explore the issue of actor motivation. This paper argues instead that the roots of revisionism lie in the path dependent properties of the collective identity that a regime uses to legitimate its rule. Leaders can become ‘entrapped’ by their own legitimating rhetoric and thus forced to engage in revisionist behavior as a means of ensuring continued rule. The paper details a set of generalizable propositions about when entrapment pressures are probable and tests the proposed explanation against rationalist and neorealist accounts of Napoleon III’s grand strategy (1848-71).

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