1. John Shy and Thomas W. Collier, “Revolutionary War,” in Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, ed. Peter Paret et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 821.
2. Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 76–77.
3. Robert K. Merton, “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action,” American Sociological Review 1 (1936): 894–904.
4. To take one example, for a discussion of the various uses of the term discourse within the work of Michel Foucault, see Sara Mills, Michel Foucault (London: Routledge, 2003), 53–66.
5. In terms of understanding the process of institutionalization and its legitimating effect on a discourse, the approach taken here imitates that which is used in relation to norms. See Andrew P. Cortell and James W. Davis Jr., “Understanding the Domestic Impact of International Norms: A Research Agenda,” International Studies Review 2 (2000): 65–87.