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Too Much Invested to Quit focuses on the applications of paradigms in the resolution of international relations, taking as backdrop issues in marriage, labor disputes, and price wars. The manuscript first offers information on the dollar auction game, a simple game that can be employed in large groups or in laboratory situations. Studies on economic and interpersonal motives when bidding against a deck of cards; sex differences and effects of team bidding; and effects of experience on the length of auction are discussed. The text also focuses on the stages of escalation and physiological and p

The trial and execution of the Jesuit John Ogilvie in 1615 is located within diverse political contexts-Reformation and Counter-Reformation; British state formation; and the contested control of the Scottish Kirk between episcopacy and Presbyterianism. The endeavors of James vi and i to promote his ius imperium by land and sea did not convert the union of the crowns into a parliamentary union. However, he pressed ahead with British policies to civilize frontiers, colonize overseas and engage in war and diplomacy. Integral to his desire not to be beholden to any foreign power was his promotion of religious uniformity which resulted in a Presbyterian backlash against episcopacy. At the same time, the Scottish bishops sought to present a united Protestant front by implementing penal laws against Roman Catholic priests and laity, which led to Ogilvie being charged with treason for upholding the spiritual supremacy of the papacy over King James. Ogilvie's martyrdom may stand in isolation, but it served to reinvigorate the Catholic mission to Scotland.

This article analyses the global vision of the Jacobite Field-Marshal James Keith and his critique of the imperial aspirations of Britain and other leading European powers. His critical writings between 1748 and 1756 will be discussed and his promotion of a rational and liberal imperial agenda will be subject to scrutiny, as will his idea that commerce opened up the prospect for accumulation and repatriation of capital. Keith's scepticism that replacement of the Hanoverians by the exiled Stuarts would accomplish necessary moral reformation achieved by enlightened despotism in Prussia is also a key theme of the article. Scepticism is also applied to Keith's global vision. Can his compounding of political virtue with capital repatriation be regarded as a workable Jacobite agenda? This question will be examined with respect to rival agendas but mainly through the vehicle of case studies for Scottish engagement with Empire in the mid-eighteenth century.