The first three recitals contained solely performances of piano music. The first one consisted of an Etude-Tableau by Rachmaninov, the Capriccio by Stravinsky (the chamberensemble accompaniment arranged for second piano), and the great Sonata in A minor by Schubert. The second recital contained a Prelude and Fugue by J. S. Bach, Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach, a Romance by the performer, Peter Covino's Toccatina Op. 4 No. 8, and Chopin's Nocturne Op. 55 No. 2 and Scherzo in E. The third recital consisted of Schonberg's Sechs Kleine Klavierstilcke, Ives's Some South-Paw Pitching, and the Sonata Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier") by Beethoven. The fourth recital featured a lecture which surveyed the piano waltz throughout its history. Several complete examples, namely Weber's Invitation to the Dance, Chopin's Waltz in A minor, and La Valse by Ravel, and incomplete examples including a Lundler by the performer, several of Schubert's waltzes, Chopin's Waltz Op. 42, and Man Lebt Nur Einmal! by Strauss-Tausig interspersed the lecture. All four recitals, tape-recorded, and the lecture, typewritten, are filed together in the Graduate Office of the North Texas State University.

Durch den Tod von Kenneth N. Waltz hat die akademische Disziplin der Internationalen Beziehungen ihren gegenwärtig größten und einflussreichsten Denker verloren. In verschiedenen Nachrufen von Schülern und Kollegen wurde zu Recht darauf hingewiesen, dass Kenneth Waltz, egal wie man zu seiner Theorie des strukturellen Realismus (der Begriff, den er dem des Neorealismus vorzog) steht, wie kein anderer die Disziplin der Internationalen Beziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges geprägt hat.

This thesis introduces a " new " international relations theorist who is also, in fact, one of the oldest of international relations theorists. Mencius (Meng Zi 371-289 BCE) is well known to students of Chinese culture as a key figure in the history of Confucianism and in the history of China: the second sage no less. Yet modern scholars usually study him, if he is studied at all, for an idea of how " Chinese" think rather than as a thinker worth studying for his own sake. I decided to study Mencius as an international relations theorist in response to the common criticism that international relations, the academic discipline, is too &quote; eurocentric". This criticism has been made many times. My goal however was not to repeat the criticism but to find a major thinker outside the euro-centric world. Such a thinker could be presented as an international relations theorist and thus demonstrate that we should indeed heed the critics of euro-centrism and make studies outside the euro-centric framework rather than simply announce that international relations is euro-centric and proceed to make another euro-centric study. This study of Mencius, qua international relations theorist, illustrates that point. Mencius lived in a world of warring states and tried to bring peace and order to that world. In the course of doing so he developed a sophisticated international relations theory which can be used to analyse events in the contemporary world. In this thesis I offer a comparison of Mencius and Kenneth N Waltz, a famous contemporary international relations theorist, to show the strength of Mencius’ theory. Mencius argues that an anarchical system of states can become an ordered one if the order is legitimised by what he calls " benevolence" , an ethic based on universal values. Waltz argues that values can never underpin an order that runs contrary to states’ interests. Once an anarchical international system has commenced balance of power formations will rise to stop it moving towards order. The disagreement between Mencius and Waltz is profound; it is not simply about the patterns of international relations ii systems but whether a policy of reform based on values can succeed in the international arena. Waltz, and the vast majority of international relations theorists, answer that question in the negative. This " ruling out" of progress distinguishes the study of international politics from the study of domestic politics. Mencius does not rule it out; he offers hope for progress and reform in the international arena. Thus the attempt to address one problem, euro-centrism, led me to approach the greatest problem, the denial of a role for values in the international world. The thesis sets out to show that Mencius’ international relations theory has greater explanatory power than the theory of Waltz, the arch positivist. The thesis also seeks to demonstrate that it is a mistake to rule values out of international politics.

In this thesis my aims are twofold. First, I provide an auto-history of the concept of reason in Anglophone IR from 1919 to 2009. I uncover the centrality of the language of reason. I show that the concept of reason has constituted, undergirded, and empowered many prominent IR scholars’ discourses. Second, I bring out a taxonomy of four construal of rationality. I argue that IR thinkers have spoken in four languages of reason. Kantian reason stands in a relation opposed to passion, emotion and instinct, and makes the stipulation that to base actions on the intellect is prerequisite for pursuing interest and moral conduct. I argue that the British Liberal Institutionalists, Has Morgenthau, Richard Ashley and Andrew Linklater are bearers of this construal. Utilitarian reason refers to the maximization of interests under constraints, where interest can be defined as strategic preference, emotional attachment, or cultural value and constraints as a two-person game, uncertainty or risk. I demonstrate how Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Glenn Snyder, Robert Keohane, Robert Gilpin, Helen Milner, Andrew Moravcsik and many other theorists use the concept. Axiological reason means following rules, cultures and norms, and always uses game as an analytical foundation and attends to the problem of how to enforce rules. I argue that Kenneth Waltz, Nicholas Onuf, Friedrich Kratochwil and K.M. Fierke have deployed the concept to construct their theories. Historical reason views all values as conditioned within a specific spatial-temporal background, and insists that moral problems, which are constituted in the margin of every political conduct, must be solved by overcoming universal morality and the unilateral pursuit of interest. I show that Raymond Aron, Martin Wight, David Boucher and Christian Reus-Smit have conceived of reason in this way.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal descobrir e revelar como Francisco Mignone compôs as 12 Valsas de Esquina e as 12 Valsas-Choro para piano solo, contribuindo para o estudo e a divulgação da música brasileira. Através da análise realizada nesta tese, revelou-se o idiomático de Mignone referente a essas obras. Além disso, investigaram-se os dados biográficos desse compositor, o gênero valsa e a contextualização da época em que as peças foram compostas. Como acréscimo, foi elaborado um guia interpretativo baseado na análise dessas Valsas e realizada uma entrevista com a pianista e viúva do compositor, Maria Josephina Mignone. A conclusão desta pesquisa, a partir das importantes informações apresentadas nos capítulos e também do resultado da análise, identifica a estrutura musical utilizada nas 12 Valsas de Esquina e nas 12 Valsas-Choro. / This paper\'s main objective is to discover and reveal how Francisco Mignone wrote the 12 Waltzes Corner and Choro-12 Waltzes for piano, contributing to the study and dissemination of Brazilian music. Through the analysis conducted in this thesis, proved the idiom of Mignone on these works. Furthermore, we investigated the biographical data of the composer, the dance, and the gender context of the time in which the pieces were composed. How increase has produced a guide for interpretation based on analysis of waltzes and held an interview with the pianist and composer\'s widow, Maria Josephina Mignone. The conclusion of this research, from the important information presented in the chapters and also the result of the analysis identifies the musical structure used in the 12 Waltzes Corner and 12 Waltzes-Choro.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal descobrir e revelar como Francisco Mignone compôs as 12 Valsas de Esquina e as 12 Valsas-Choro para piano solo, contribuindo para o estudo e a divulgação da música brasileira. Através da análise realizada nesta tese, revelou-se o idiomático de Mignone referente a essas obras. Além disso, investigaram-se os dados biográficos desse compositor, o gênero valsa e a contextualização da época em que as peças foram compostas. Como acréscimo, foi elaborado um guia interpretativo baseado na análise dessas Valsas e realizada uma entrevista com a pianista e viúva do compositor, Maria Josephina Mignone. A conclusão desta pesquisa, a partir das importantes informações apresentadas nos capítulos e também do resultado da análise, identifica a estrutura musical utilizada nas 12 Valsas de Esquina e nas 12 Valsas-Choro. / This paper\'s main objective is to discover and reveal how Francisco Mignone wrote the 12 Waltzes Corner and Choro-12 Waltzes for piano, contributing to the study and dissemination of Brazilian music. Through the analysis conducted in this thesis, proved the idiom of Mignone on these works. Furthermore, we investigated the biographical data of the composer, the dance, and the gender context of the time in which the pieces were composed. How increase has produced a guide for interpretation based on analysis of waltzes and held an interview with the pianist and composer\'s widow, Maria Josephina Mignone. The conclusion of this research, from the important information presented in the chapters and also the result of the analysis identifies the musical structure used in the 12 Waltzes Corner and 12 Waltzes-Choro.

Liszt was distinguished as the most important virtuoso in the Romantic period of music history, whose Weimar period between 1848 and 1861 was the time of Liszt¡¦s golden age of composition. The Mephisto Waltz No.1, finished in 1860, was based on the second episode The Dance in the Village Inn from Nikolaus Lenau¡¦s poem ¡§Faust.¡¨ Exercising the virtuosic elements and thematic transformation technique, Liszt combined both literature and musical ideas in the Mephisto Waltz No.1 successfully. This work remains one of the most popular works on today¡¦s piano recital repertoire ever since. This research consists of two parts. Part one discusses the characteristics of Liszt¡¦s compositions, with a focus on how Liszt¡¦s style was influenced by the nineteenth century virtuosity. Part two analyzes Mephisto Waltz No. 1 by exploring its historical background, formal structure, and the techniques of thematic transformation. The corresponding pianistic techniques are summarized from the various sources of scholarly suggestions as the conclusion of this analysis.

This study aims to explain the Stuxnet-attack against Iran in 2009-2010 by using the IR-theory of structural realism. By doing so the theory also faces the challenge of the impact of the information revolution on security and international relations. The structural realism that is at hand is that of Kenneth Waltz and his Theory of International Politics from 1979.The study reaches the conclusion that Waltzs focus on the structure of the international system and the distribution of capabilities applies well to the case of Stuxnet as a cyber attack. The creators of the sophisticated Stuxnet, USA and Israel, also indicates that when it comes to this certain aspect of the information revolution and IR, states seem to still be the main actor. Finally the character of one of the major features of the Stuxnet-attack; the internet, is shown to have an anarchic structure that fits well as an extension of the realist view of the international system.

This study presented a comprehensive review of Kenneth Waltz's structural realism of international politics. Waltz pursues parsimonious theory by adopting elegant definitions of structure. His neorealistic approach is an impressive intellectual achievement. It is an elegant, simple, deductively rigorous instrument geared for scientific contribution. Yet this pure structural realism provides an insufficient basis for explaining international relations. Neorealism is one presentation of reality among many. It does not pretend to reflect all realities. Thus, I suggest that we adopt the complex interdependence concept as a thought experiment regarding that which international politics might look like if the basic assumptions of realism were revised and how we overcome inefficient and over-consumptuous control of great powers that defend the status-quo via the excuse for international stability. / Department of Political Science

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, 2011. / Submitted by Shayane Marques Zica (marquacizh@uol.com.br) on 2011-10-20T14:17:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LaraMartimRodriguesSelis.pdf: 1710983 bytes, checksum: 72bef328777f26119c86318ec2752171 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Leila Fernandes (leilabiblio@yahoo.com.br) on 2011-12-15T14:17:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LaraMartimRodriguesSelis.pdf: 1710983 bytes, checksum: 72bef328777f26119c86318ec2752171 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-15T14:17:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LaraMartimRodriguesSelis.pdf: 1710983 bytes, checksum: 72bef328777f26119c86318ec2752171 (MD5) / A presente dissertação dedica-se ao estudo do corpo teórico neorrealista formulado por Kenneth Waltz. Como objetivo geral, define-se o intuito de apresentar e interpretar aquela teoria, discutindo seus direcionamentos centrais nos planos teórico-metodológico, e sociológico, relacionados com uma perspectiva crítica. Entende-se, pois, que revisitar os conceitos do neorrealismo de Kenneth Waltz integra várias exigências metódicas: a histórica, orientada pela necessidade de repensar as perspectivas originais que envolveram sua produção; a ontológica, pela qual se contesta as definições do ser e dos seus sentidos; e, finalmente, a epistêmica, cujo desenvolvimento busca rever os fundamentos da ciência neorrealista, interpretando seus desdobramentos e aplicação. Tais caminhos são apreciados por meio do suporte teórico oferecido pelos argumentos da Teoria Crítica, vinculados ao olhar sociológico sobre as origens do conhecimento, e, sobretudo, à problematização da epistemologia cartesiana. Por meio dessas lentes, o estudo preocupa-se especialmente com os conceitos relacionados ao sujeito político internacional e suas práticas, que abrem espaço para uma reflexão acerca da imaginação política dispota no neorrealismo. Nesse sentido, desenvolve-se o argumento central de que a produção científica de Waltz contribui para construção de uma ideia “empobrecida” de política, visto que se apoia em elaborações tecnicistas despojadas das considerações normativas e intersubjetivas na apreensão intelectual do cenário internacional. Tais formulações tornam-se problemáticas, na medida em que prescrevem subjetividades conservadoras, associadas às condutas políticas desprovidas do elemento transformador. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This masters research focuses on the study of the neorealist theory formulated by Kenneth Waltz. The central purpose is related to the presentation and critical interpretation of neorealism in its theoretical, methodological and sociological levels. Accordingly, the intent to revisit the neorealist concepts involve some methodical paths: first, the historical one, oriented by the need of rethink the origins of neorealist ideas; second, the ontological path, grounded in the reflection about the basic categories of being and their relations; and, finally, the epistemological study which investigates the nature and limitations of neorealist knowledge. To reach this goals, at least in the minimal sense, this dissertation uses the theoretical arguments developed by the Critical Theory, associates with the sociology of knowledge, and, especially, with the critiques about the cartesian epistemology. In this sense, the study focuses on the concepts related to international political actors and its practices, in order to, in a broadened scope, analyse the neorealist political imagination. So, this master thesis is based on the central argument that the scientific production of Waltz contributes to the construction of an 'impoverished' idea of politics, since it relies on a technical meaning about knowledge, problematized by the tendency in produce a conservative subject, that is incapable of contest the given order.