Diplomatic immunity - the law which allowed the Libyan killers to escape with a police escort - is an offshoot of the theory that government members and agents are legally untouchable abroad for anything done during their term of office, even if it's a crime of private lust (like rape or child abuse).
Metal has more offshoots than Freudian theory and Star Trek put together.
The offshoot of these theories was the creation of pacifist organizations in 19th-century Europe in which such ideas as general disarmament and the instigation of special courts to hear international conflicts were entertained.
The situation is akin to going to a business conference and being allocated to a "blue" or "red" team: you bond with the members of your team, along the lines of "group theory", an offshoot of social psychology.
As an offshoot of general equilibrium theory, Sraffian economics purports to explain the determination of prices by means of the technological relationships between inputs and outputs without invoking the preferences of consumers that neoclassical economists rely on so heavily.
After an excursus about how eugenics was an unsavoury offshoot of Malthus's theory, Pearce explores trends in population growth around the world, highlighting the falling birth rates in China, Australia, South Africa and most of Europe (on present trends, by 2100 Germany will have fewer natives than Berlin has today) and providing evidence that developing countries are following suit.
SDRT is an offshoot of Discourse Representation Theory, a dynamic semantic approach to meaning according to which meaning arises incrementally through context change.
Suddenly, however, advocates for gay equality find themselves confronting a thorny offshoot of biologically-based theories of sexual orientation.
Green's Female Gaze is an offshoot of the Male Gaze theory, which was coined in 1975 by British feminist Laura Mulvey.
Many point to the so-called "experimental" novel as a prized example of what is literary, which opens up academic questions on literary theory and various academic offshoots that deeply study trends and movements to determine how literature impacts thought, history and civilization.
