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How Denials and Excuses Shield States From International Backlash

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Noncompliance

Strategic Messaging

International Law

Survey Experiment

Public Opinion

2025 est.

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When Secrecy Beats Public Alliances: How Hidden Pacts Shape Deterrence

Alliances

Deterrence

Signaling

Secret Alliances

Formal Model

2025 est.

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2025

Cause Over Cash: Why Ideology Drove Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

Ideology

Recruitment

Spain

British Battalion

Biographical Data

2025

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How Leaders' Anger Makes Threats More Credible

Coercive Credibility

Anger

Crisis Bargaining

Survey Experiment

Text Analysis

2025

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How IMF Mission Chiefs’ Biases Shape Lending Conditions

IMF

Mission Chiefs

Bureaucratic Bias

Policy Conditions

Fixed Effects

2025

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Why Aleppo’s Twitter Became More Pro‑Assad After the Regime Retook the City

Social Media

Civil War

Syria

Twitter

Large Language Models

2025

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How Global Value Chains Make Firms Lobby Together

Global Value Chains

Lobbying

Supply Chains

Trade Associations

Network Analysis

2025

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How Hierarchy and Strategic Fit Boost Alliance Efficiency

Alliances

Hierarchy

Strategic Compatibility

Network Analysis

Military Capabilities

2025

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How Regime Legitimacy Shapes Whether Coethnics Make Borderlands Home

Coethnics

Ethnic Legitimacy

Territorial Claims

Survival Analysis

Croatia

2025

How the Threat of War Builds Hierarchy — And Shapes Future Conflict

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Hierarchy

War

Network Model

Balancing

Institutions

2025

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When UN Peacekeepers Enforce More, Do Peace Deals Hold?

UN

Peacekeeping

Peace Agreements

Conflict Recurrence

Enforcement

2025

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How AmChams Pushed U.S. Embassies Toward Commercial Diplomacy

AmChams

Commercial Diplomacy

Oral Histories

Diplomatic Rotation

Political Economy

2025

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Local Mobilization Power Made Clergy Targets in the Spanish Civil War

Mobilization

Clergy

Spanish Civil War

Civilian Victimization

Local Leaders

2025

Why Global Politics Moved From Territorial Rivalries to Cross-Border Inequality

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Cleavages

Territoriality

Inequality

Word Embeddings

The Economist

2025

Curfews Backfire: Lower Government Support and More Rebel Attacks in Turkey

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Curfews

Turkey

Elections

Rebellion

Difference-in-differences

2025

Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence Boost Civic Engagement — Female Empowerment Not Realized

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Sexual Violence

Civic Engagement

Stigma

Gender

List Experiment

2025

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Why China Uses Safety Rules to Reject Imports and Punish Foreign States

China

Import Refusals

Non-tariff Barriers

Border Inspections

Regulatory Politics

2025

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2024

Why Some Alliances Draw Foreign Troops Into Civil Wars and Others Don't

Alliances

Civil War

Intervention

Defense Pacts

Consultation Pacts

2024

How PTSD Shifted U.S. Leaders' Talk and Blurred War's Boundaries

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2023

PTSD

Discourse Analysis

Presidential Rhetoric

Foreign Policy

Post-9/11

2023

Strategic Alliances: How Rebel Groups Defect via Temporary Partnerships

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Strategic Alliances

Rebel Defection

Peace Settlements

Causal Pathways

2023

New Policy Ideas Emerge from IOs' Tensions: Green Growth as a Case Study

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Green Growth

Creative Learning

International Organizations

Climate Change

2023

How Malaria Shrinks a Country’s Diplomatic Footprint

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Malaria

Diplomacy

Dyadic Analysis

Endogeneity

2023

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2022

When Trade Theory Collides With Farm Politics

Comparative Advantage

Us Agriculture

Trade Agreement

Interest Groups

2022

Asset specificity drives trade protection competition across firms

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Protectionism

Trade Policy

Diffusion Dynamics

Fixed Assets

2022

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How Complex Dependence Reveals Reciprocity in Global FDI Networks

Network Theory

ERGM

Reciprocity

Transitivity

2022

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Cyber Terror Attacks That Kill Fuel Public Desire for Military Retaliation

Cyber Terrorism

Lethality

Anger

Public Policy

Survey Experiment

2022

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Eve Online Shows Structural Balance in Virtual Diplomacy

Structural Balance

Triads

Alliances

Eve Online

Network Analysis

2022

Pol. An.

More ISDS Claims But Less Impact? FDI Not Significantly Affected By Average Lawsuits

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Investor State Dispute Settlement

Isds

Foreign Direct Investment

Fdi

Regression Analysis

Us

2022

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Intervention Diplomacy Sparks Conflict: New Analysis Reveals Foreign Powers' Peaceful Actions Can Fuel Civil Wars

Structural Analysis

Major Powers

Civil Conflict Onset

Intervention Strategies

International Relations

2022

Dyadic Conflict: How Elite Decisions Ignite Citizen Support for War

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Dyadic Politics

Elite-citizen Relations

War Dynamics

Accountability Gap

Quantitative Analysis

2022

When American Troops Were Tried in Foreign Courts During the Cold War

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Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

Cold War

Military Presence

Bilateral Agreements

2022

Conflict Shifts Investment Priorities in Resource-Rich Nations

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Armed Conflict

Economic Governance

Resource Extraction

2022

When Borders Break: How Fragmented Ethnic Groups Raise Civil War Risk

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Ethnic Conflict

Territorial Fractionalization

Borders

Irredentism

Secession

2022

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International Ambition vs Domestic Reality: A 25-Year Gap in Western Democracies

Liberal Internationalism

Populism

Economic Globalization

Western Democracies

2022

Drone Strikes Disrupt, Not Just Target: Yemen's Communication Spikes Show Local Toll

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Drone Strikes

Yemen

Big Data

Anomaly Detection

Civilian Communication

2022

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U.S. Influence and State Strength Shape Conflict Dynamics Abroad

U.s.

Patronage

State Capacity

Civil Conflict

Institutional Weakness

2022

Strengthening the State? How Mexico's Tax Centralization Fuelled Rebellion Instead

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Elite Coordination

Popular Grievances

Centralization Reforms

Colonial Mexico

2022

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Rising Powers Challenge Old Order: A New UN Bloc Emerges

BRICS

UN Voting

International Hierarchy

Rising Powers

2022

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2021

Beyond Clauses: New Measure Reveals What Makes Peace Deals Stickier

Latent Variable Approach

Civil Conflicts

Bayesian Item Response Theory

Peace Agreements

2021

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Troops Not Just Luck: Game Theory in International Rivalries

Game Theory

International Relations

Major Powers

Strategic Competition

2021

International Relations Renaissance? Individuals Matter in Theory But Not Much in Publications

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Individuals

IR Theory

Publication Trends

TRIP Database

2021

PS

1 R files

How US Voters Balance Legal & Moral Imperatives in War Attitudes?

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2021

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Coercion Undermines Assurance Credibility

Assurance Credibility

Coercion

Security Dilemma

International Relations Theory

2021

Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence.

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2021

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Does Madman Theory Work? New Evidence on Crazy Leaders' Coercion

Madman Theory

Coercion

Reputation

Credibility

2021

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Resource Curse Revisited: Meta-Analysis Finds Commodity Shocks Don't Spark Conflict on Average

Resource Curse

Commodity Price Shocks

Meta-Analysis

Difference-in-Difference

Natural Experiments

2021

Visiting Leaders Boost Foreign Approval, Especially When Media Covers Visits

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Public Diplomacy

Public Opinion

Soft Power

High-level Visits

Surveys

2021

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Sanctions' Low Costs Mask Reduced Disaster Preparedness Budgets

Budget Allocation

Sanctions Impact

Disaster Preparedness

Government Spending

2021

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Crisis Signaling Games: Why Multiple Equilibria Create Messy Data Predictions

Signaling Games

Multiple Equilibria

Sanctions

Audience Costs

2021

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Chinese vs. U.S. Aid in Africa: Do Different Approaches Boost Legitimacy?

State Legitimacy

African States

Survey Experiment

Behavioral Games

2021

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Four Costly Signaling Mechanisms Reveal Credibility Boost Beyond Sunk Costs

Costly Signaling

Installment Costs

Reducible Costs

Credibility

2021

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Free Trade Pushes Some Countries Toward Democracy, Others Away

Free Trade

Democratization

Democratic Transition

Development

2021

Leniency in Civil Wars: How Truces Attract Selfish Rebels

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Rebel Recruitment

Civil Conflict

Northeast India

Conjunctive Methods

2021

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High Stakes Can Reduce War Risk: A Counterintuitive Look at Valuation Uncertainty

Reservation Value

Uncertainty Theory

Game Theory Model

Valuation Effect

2021

Intuitive Deterrence: Why Democracies Seem Less Resolute

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Resolve

Heuristics

Democracies Vs Autocracies

Conjoint Experiment

2021

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Third Parties: Unexpected Influencers on Trade Regime Compliance?

Trade Regime

Third Parties

Compliance

International Trade

2021

2 R files

Trade Adjustment Assistance: More Responsive Than Thought, But Facing a Political Challenge

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Trade Adjustment Assistance

US Counties

Quantitative Analysis

2016 Election

2021

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Natural Disasters Prompt Strategic Aid Allocation: Friends Get Development, Enemies Receive Humanitarian Help

Humanitarian Aid

Development Aid

Strategic Interest Measure

Counterintuitive Finding

2021

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Military Aid Amplifies Risk: Why Supporting New Regimes Fuels Anti-Regime Violence

Regime Vulnerability

Democratic Transition

Personalist Autocracy

Military Aid

2021

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Why Do Migrants Shape Foreign Aid? New Study Reveals Their Unexpected Influence

Diaspora Influence

Emergency Aid Flow

Natural Disaster Response

Interaction Effects

2021

PSR&M

Free-Riding in Alliances? New Data Challenges a Key Diplomatic Theory

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Public Goods

Free Riding

GDP Share

Military Spending

2021

Government Restrictions vs. Civil Society Resilience in International Naming and Shaming

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Civil Society Monitoring

Egypt Case Study

Government Constraints

Cross-national Analysis

2021

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Foreign Visits Signal Confidence, Boosting Leader Survival Rates

Foreign Visits

Leader Survival

Incumbent Stability

Confidence Signaling

2021

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How China Used Tariffs to Hurt Republicans in the 2018 Midterms

Tariffs

Electoral Geography

Trade War

Midterms

Survey

2021

IO

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Terrorism's Role in Muslim Population Growth? New Research Explores the Link.

Supply Side Terrorism

Conversion Motivation

Fertility Transition

Immigration Policy

2021

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Compromise Doesn't Weaken Leadership: Why US Republicans Have More Leeway in International Deals

Proposal Power

Partisanship

Compromise

US Liberal

2021

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UN Peacekeeping Fails During Conflict but Boosts Rule of Law Afterward

Rule Of Law

African Missions

Personnel Effectiveness

Postconflict

2021

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Localized China Trade Shocks Shape Brazilian Voters' and Legislators' Views

Localized Trade Shocks

Brazil

China Imports

Export Benefits

2021

How Regional Rebellions Shape Authoritarian Rule Worldwide

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Regional Rebellions

Militarized Authoritarian Regimes

Quantitative Tests

Coups

2021

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Jordan's Calibrated Repression: Unexpected Shield Against Jihadist Spillover

Civil War Spillover

Calibrated Repression

Jihadism Jordan

ISIS Infiltration

2021

Measuring Leaders' Inherent Tendencies: A New Approach for Understanding Force

i

2020

Latent Variable

Bayesian Modeling

Willful Behavior

2020

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Competence Boosts Union Success, Loyalty Fuels Confederate Victories in Civil War Battles

American Civil War

Commander Competence

Loyalty-conflict Nexus

Battlefield Effectiveness

2020

How Elite Education Deters War?

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Western Educated Leaders

Militarized Disputes

Soft Power Theory

Archigos Dataset

LEAD Database

2020

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Beyond Keeping the Peace: How Do UN Peacekeepers Actually Reduce Ethnic Tensions?

UN Peacekeepers

Ethnic Tensions

Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Stability Enforcement

2020

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Income Inequality Shapes Who Wants to Fight: A New Look at War Motivation

Income Inequality

Willingness To Fight

Descriptive Representation

World Values Survey

2020

Cash Transfers Boost Taliban Support in Afghanistan Long-Term

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Experimental Evidence

Information Provision

Afghanistan RCT

Hearts And Minds

2020

Civil Wars' Hidden Shifts: New Dataset Reveals Changing Government-Armed Actor Relationships

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Government Armed Actors Relations Dataset

Armed Group Alignment Changes

Africa Asia-Pacific ME/NA Civil Wars

Qualitative Coding Political Science

2020

How Syrian Crisis Testing British Commitment to Humanitarian Intervention

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Civilian Casualties

Humanitarian Intervention

Horizontal Contestation

UK Government

2020

JJPS

Why Some Civil Conflicts Reach the UN Security Council Fast and Others Don't

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UNSC

Agenda-setting

P-5

E-10

Survival Analysis

2020

The Oil Curse's Curve: How Revenue Levels Affect Nonviolent Dissent

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Resource Curse

Regression Analysis

Civil Resistance

2020

How Global Activists Shaped Truth Commissions Worldwide

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Transitional Justice

Truth Commissions

Civil Society

International NGOs

Interviews

2020

When Tribunals Deter Atrocities: Three Conditions That Matter

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ICTY

Deterrence

Atrocities

Yugoslavia

Case Studies

2020

IS

3 Text

Why Some Foreign Aid Wins Trust in Donbas: Geopolitics, Not Humanitarianism

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Donbas

Foreign Aid

Framing

Russia

European Union

2020

Surprise: ISIS Attacks Shrink Online Supportbase on Twitter Data

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ISIS

Twitter

Follower Impact

Terrorism

Group Efficacy

2020

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Interstate Wars Improve Ethnic Rights; Civil Wars Boost Gender Rights

Ethnicity

Gender

Interstate War

Intrastate War

V-Dem

2020

Guns or Money? How Defense Networks and Economic Lending Coevolve in Unexpected Ways

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Multiplex Networks

Security Communities

Rational Choice Theory

Government-to-Government Loans

2020

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Democratic Peace? Brazil Backs It, China Doesn't—UN Approval Matters

Democratic Peace

Public Opinion

Brazil

China

Survey Experiment

2020

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People Dislike Foreign Aid to Bad Countries Unless They Engage Directly

Foreign Aid

Survey Experiment

Nasty Regimes

Moral Aversion

2020

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Endorsement Erosions Trust: Outgroup Leaders Hurt Civil War Peace Deals

South Sudan

Civil War

Leader Endorsement

Public Support

2020

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How Nations Copy Laws to Silence NGOs — Threats Rarely Drive the Trend

NGOs

Policy Diffusion

Imitation

Negative Binomial

Survival Analysis

2020

Irregular Leaders Triple the Risk of Sovereign Default

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Sovereign Default

Leadership Transitions

Irregular Succession

Historical Data

Logistic Regression

2020

Ethnic Polarization Shapes Peacekeeping Effectiveness, Study Finds

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Ethnic Polarization

Territorial Control

Sierra Leone

One-sided Violence

2020

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Proximity to U.S. Troops Boosts Host Nations' Support

Us Military Presence

Cross-national Survey Data

Public Opinion

Proximity

2020

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Why Land-Oriented Economies Still Fight for Territory

Land Orientation

Land Rents

Territorial Conquest

Regime Type

Regression

2020

Why Syrian Ex-Fighters Want to Return — And What Keeps Them Away

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Syria

Ex-combatants

Remobilization

ISIS

Survey

2020

Reciprocity's Hidden Role in Public Opinion on Foreign Investment

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Reciprocity Theory

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Opposition

Conjoint Experiments

Comparative Politics USA-China

2020

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When Rebels Sell Out or Stand Firm: Civilian Power Shapes Peace Deals

Civil War

Peace Agreements

Civilian Support

Rebel Elites

Regression Analysis

2020

International Standards Don't Cap Regulation — They Pull It Both Ways

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International Standards

Agrochemicals

US Regulation

Regulatory Diffusion

Policy Convergence

2020

The US Didn't Stabilize Dictatorships—Wait Until You Hear About the Soviets

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Client Regimes

Coup D'état

Soviet Strategy

Survival Analysis

2020

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Small Coding Changes, Big Consequences for CoW MID Findings

MIDs

CoW

Measurement

Replication

Coding

2020

Shifting Lines of Combat in WWII Italy Linked to Intentional Targeting

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"Difference In Differences"

"WWII Italy"

"Nazi-Fascist Violence"

"Civilian Victimization"

2020

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HRO Campaigns and Third-Party Pressure: A Double-Edged Sword for Human Rights?

Causal Mediation Model

International Pressure

Name And Shame Campaigns

Hro Impact

2020

More Mediators, Fewer Conflicts? Explaining the Surprising Decline in International Peace Efforts

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Armed Conflicts

International Mediation

Supply-demand Mismatch

Terror Listing

2020

1 R files

4 datasets

Why Countries Use Trade Deals To Avoid Weakening Labor Laws

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Labor Rights

Preferential Trade

Race-to-bottom

Structural Equivalence

Globalization

2020

Stronger Transnational Ties, Equal Foreign Aid Support?

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Transnational Ties

Foreign Aid Support

Latino Americans

Survey Experiment

2020

Most MID Changes Hold — But Replication Choices, Not Data, Explain Many Reversals

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MID Dataset

Replication

Data Quality

Militarized Conflict

2020

When Leadership Uncertainty Encourages Peace

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Leader Turnover

Deterrence

Military Spending

War Initiation

Bargaining

2020

ISIS Suicide Bombers: Leaders Screened Recruits, Not Volunteers

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Suicide Attacks

ISIS

Personnel Records

Education

Screening

2020

1 R files

2 Datasets

Policy Polarization Fuels Foreign Election Interventions: A New Measurement Explains Global Patterns

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Policy Polarization

Candidate Intervention

Process Intervention

United States

2020

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Why Some IOs Embrace Liberal Norms Deeply While Others Only Pay Lip Service

International Organizations

Liberal Norms

Norm Commitment

Democracy

Large-N

2020

Why Appeals to Jobs Win Over Price Arguments for Free Trade Support

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Trade Attitudes

Protectionism

Loss Aversion

Survey Experiment

United States

2020

6 Datasets

Advocacy vs Aid: Why Global LGBT Rights Are Splitting Apart

i

2019

LGBTQ Norms

Advocacy Networks

Foreign Aid Conditionalities

Non-OECD Countries

2019

Rebel Diplomacy on Social Media Didn't Fail - It Succeeded by Ignoring Conventional Wisdom

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Social Media Diplomacy

Libya

Twitter

Image Projection

Civil War

2019

i

How the Aid Transparency Index Pressured Donors to Become More Transparent

ATI

GPIs

Transparency

Donor Behavior

Mixed Methods

2019

IO

Why Some Political Grievances Turn Violent — A Two-Stage View of Civil Conflict

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Civil Conflict

Incompatibilities

Militarization

Horizontal Inequality

Two-stage

2019

IO

5 Datasets

Contrary Wisdom: International Treaties Are Heavily Copied and Pasted

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Preferential Trade Agreements

Text Analysis

Copying Templates

Institutional Design

Policy Diffusion

2019

Peacekeeper or Perpetrator? UN Troops' Misconduct Explained by Institutions and Military Culture

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UN Peacekeeping Mission Effectiveness

Institutional Determinants (Rule Of Law)

Military Culture Factors

Compliance International Humanitarian Law

2019

New international agreements recycle boilerplate language for efficiency gains.

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Boilerplate Language

International Agreement

Efficiency Gain

Power Distribution

2019

Expert Advice Boosts Cooperation? New Experiment Shows Surprising Results

i

Sectarianism

Lebanon

Expert Appeal

Cross-group Discussion

2019

i

Former Colonies Get More Aid Because Donors Pay More Attention, Not Institutions

Colonialism

Foreign Aid

Donor Bias

Decomposition

Labor Econometrics

2019

II

i

Compensating Autocrats: International Economic Pressure Intensifies Repression

Compensation Dynamic

Economic Liberalization

Repression

Autocracy

2019

Chinese Trade Competition: Who Pays the Price? 18 OECD Countries Reveal Unequal Impact

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Trade Competition

China

OECD Countries

Employment Effects

2019

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How Intervention Fuels Civil Wars: A Global Analysis

Competitive Intervention

Bargaining Model

Angola Conflict Data

Proxy Wars

2019

Why States Differ in How They Handle Land, River, and Maritime Disputes

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Transaction Costs Theory

Land Claims

River Disputes

Maritime Conflicts

2019

i

War Can Boost Women's Power — But Often Only Temporarily

Women's Empowerment

Armed Conflict

Peace Processes

Cross-national

Historical Analysis

2019

IO

i

Beyond Land Deals: Why Symbolic Attachments Fuel Conflict in Israel

Disputed Territory

Symbolic Attachment

Survey Experiment

Israel

2019

PSR&M

China's Economic Rise Pushes Small Nations Towards South-South Trade Deals

i

South-south Trade Agreements

China Competition Effect

BRICS Countries

2019

Density Explains INGO Decline: Why More NGOs Exist But Fewer Are Founded

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Density

INGO Founding

United States

Competition

2019

Connectivity Drives Convergence Among International Organizations

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International Organizations

Diffusion

Convergence

Participatory Governance

Spatial Analysis

2019

IO

4 Datasets

Electoral Rules Shape Sovereign Debt Defaults: Domestic Workers vs. International Creditors

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Electoral Systems

Sovereign Debt

Interest Groups

Countries

2019

Civil War Researchers Overlook Fatality Thresholds? New Findings on Narcotics Matter

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Fatality Thresholds

Civil War

Narcotics

Endogeneity

2019

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Local Anti-Muslim Sentiment Drives Online ISIS Radicalization

Anti-Muslim Hostility

Twitter Radicalization

Western Europe

Pro-ISIS Sentiment

2019

New Experiments Reveal Hawkdom's Surprising Domestic Edge in Foreign Policy

i

Survey Experiments

Foreign Policy

Rapprochement Strategy

Domestic Politics

Public Opinion

2019

i

Long histories of ownership make territorial disputes worse

Historical Political Science

Territorial Sovereignty

Property Rights History

Quantitative Analysis

2019

Does Precolonial Centralization Fuel Modern Ethnic Conflict in Former British Colonies?

i

Historical State-building

Ex-British Colonies

Under-recruitment

Post-independence Exclusion

2019

Human Rights Rhetoric Amplifies War Backing

i

Human Rights

War Support

American Public

2019

World Bank Loans Pushed Countries Toward Democracy?

i

World Bank

Loans Program

Regression Discontinuity Design

Political Liberalization

2019

i

How UN Peacekeepers Shifted Liberians From Informal to State Justice

Liberia

Rule Of Law

Peacekeeping

List Experiment

Instrumental Variables

2019

IO

i

Immigrant & Emigrant Influence on Third-Party Military Intervention

Civil War

International Migration

Military Intervention

Accountability

2019

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Legitimacy Shapes International Institutional Change Through Cognitive Processes

Legitimacy

Cognitive Theory

Regional Parliamentarization

International Organizations

Survival Analysis Method

2019

How Expanding Market Jurisdiction Lets States Shield Firms From Foreign Rules

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Market Power

Jurisdiction

Sarbanes–Oxley

Delisting

European Union

2019

IO

Foreign Lobbying Tilt US Human Rights Reports Away from Amnesty International

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Foreign Lobbying

Human Rights Ratings

Country Reports

Quantitative Analysis

2019

Ending Civil Wars Requires More Than Just Military Victory?

i

Civil Wars

Multiparty Conflicts

Reform Process

Dyadic Terminations

2019

The Paradox of Peacekeepers: Reducing Conflict But Fueling Criminal Violence?

i

Peacekeeping

Criminal Violence

Unpolicedeployment

Organized Crime

2019

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Pope Francis Leverages Twitter to Heighten Political Engagement During International Crises

Pope Francis

Twitter

Papacy

Crisis Communication

International Relations

Religious Minorities

2019

PS

Power Sharing Agreements Strengthen Rule of Law After Civil War

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Power Sharing

Rule Of Law

Post-Civil War States

Judicial Independence

2019

Formal Power-Sharing Institutions Drive Peace Indirectly Through Behavior

i

Ethnic Power Sharing

Causal Mediation Analysis

Peace Indirect Effects

Institutional Behavior

2019

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Humanitarian Interventions Aren’t Just Western — New Global Dataset Challenges Myths

Humanitarian Intervention

Dataset

Armed Conflict

Escalation

Comparative

2019

II

Are UN Human Rights Mechanisms Effective? UPR vs Treaty Bodies

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Universal Periodic Review

Treaty Bodies

Human Rights Monitoring

Compliance Mechanisms

2019

2 Other

Radio Waves Fueling Courage? Nazi Propaganda Boosted German Soldier Valor in WWII

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Propaganda

Motivation

WWII

Germany

Radiobroadcasts

2019

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How Democracies Boost Property Rights' Edge on Foreign Investment Over Time

Democracy

Foreign Direct Investment

Multilevel Modeling

Technological Innovation

2019

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UN Peacekeepers Deter Rebel Abuses, Not Government Killings

Peacekeeping

Civilian Protection

Rebels

State Violence

Africa

2019

IO

i

Rebel Tactics Shape American Public Opinion: A Counterintuitive Look at Legitimacy

Foreign Public Opinion

Rebel Legitimacy

Nonviolent Actions

Terrorism Perception

2019

When Secrecy Fails: Congress Limits Presidential Covert Operations

i

Covert Operations

Cold War

Congress

Divided Government

Oversight

2019

IO

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Trade Exposure Makes High-Pollution Sectors More Likely to Oppose Climate Agreements

Sectoral Interests

Distributive Politics

Climate Agreements

Trade Openness

2019

Targeted Tariffs Create Evasion Risks When Bureaucrats Can't Enforce

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Tariff Evasion

Trade Policy Enforcement

Bureaucratic Capacity

Product Misclassification

2019

Economic Modernization's Dual Role: Early Sparks and Long-Term Stability of Civil Conflict

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Economic Structure

Materialism

Civil War

World Bank

2019

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Timing of Border Settlements: New Evidence Challenges Democratic Peace Theory

Democratic Peace Theory

Territorial Disputes

Border Settlements

Institutional Explanations

2019

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Leakage Strategies: EU Dominance and Domestic Ideology Driving International Negotiation Leaks

Strategic Communication

EU Leaks

Quantitative Analysis

Negotiation Texts

2019

Investment Disputes Hit Anti-Smoking Rules: New Data Reveals Regulatory Chill

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Investment Disputes

Regulatory Chill

Anti-smoking Regulation

2019

Small Groups Can Drive Effective Climate Action Through Clubs and Incentives

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Climate Club

Game Theory

United States

European Union

2019

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Membership in International Organizations Doesn't Deter Corruption, It Encourages It

Political Corruption

International Organizations

Credible Commitment

Anti-Corruption Norms

Imitation Effects

2019

Why Powerful States Take Bigger Risks: The IMF's Unequal Safety Net

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IMF

Moral Hazard

Reserves

Financial Crises

Synthetic Control

2019

IO

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Borrowing Power, Not Patriotism: How Loans Shape Nations' UN Votes

Regional Development Banks

Material Capabilities

Voting Alignment

Un General Assembly

2019

2 Datasets

NGOs Copy Peers' Tactics in Climate Change Advocacy

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Network Effects

Autocorrelation Models

Climate NGOs

Peer Influence

2019

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Peacekeeping Boosts Growth But Hurts Stability

Peacekeeping Economy

Demand-Side Intervention

Liberia

Service Sector Jobs

2019

How International Alliances Shape Civilian Protection in War: Evidence from Global Sanctions

i

Civilian Targeting

Alliance Networks

Trade Partnerships

International Sanctions

Treaty Enforcement

2019

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Surrender Is Contagious: Why Mass Capitulations Spread Across Battles

Surrender

Contagion

Collective Action

Battlefield Resolve

Interstate Wars

2019

IO

4 R files

2 Datasets

Arms Versus Allies: Why Regime Type Shapes Defense Spending Decisions

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2018

Democracy

Defense Spending

Allies

Military Expenditure

2018

Higher Costs, More Wars: How Audience Pressures Shape International Crises

i

Audience Costs

Commitment Device

Deterrence Paradox

Crisis Game

Free Press Effects

Executive Appointment/removal

2018

i

Inclusive Peer Review Process Sparks Cooperation Despite Poor Human Rights Records

Universal Periodic Review

Human Rights Council

Deliberative Capacity

Inclusive Processes

2018

Crisis Pushes Nations in Different Trade Policy Directions

i

Economic Crisis

Trade Liberalization

Lobbying Competition

Game Theory

2018

i

Human Rights Shaming Worsens Trade Effects of Abusive Policies

Human Rights Abuse

NGO Shaming

Gravity Model

Africa Asia

2018

Killing Two Birds with One Stone? Examining the Diffusion Effect of Militant Leadership Decapitation

i

2018

Leaders Matter: Why Influence-Specific Reputation Shapes World Politics

i

Influence Specific Reputation

International Relations Theory

Survey Experiment

U.s.-iran Conflict

2018

i

Life, Death, or Zombie? The Vitality of International Organizations

2018

How NGOs Gain Influence in International Organizations: The Role of Information Exchange

i

NGO Influence

International Orgs

Info Exchange

Elite Interviews

2018

i

Frontline or Urban? UN Peacekeepers' Strategic Placement in Civil Wars

Subnational Deployment

Civil War

UN Peacekeeping

Africa

2018

i

Beyond Counterterrorism: How CIA Collaboration Harms Authoritarian Human Rights Practices

Covert Collaboration

Authoritarian Countries

Human Rights Deterrence

2018

Political Relations, Leader Stability, and Economic Coercion

i

2018

Why States Mirror the UN Human Rights Committee's Agenda

i

Human Rights Committee

Concluding Observations

Periodic Reports

Agenda Setting

Latin America

2018

JHR

i

Exile Rates Plummet for Culpable Leaders as International Justice Tightens

Extradition

Atrocity Deterrence

Culpable Leaders

Global Justice

2018

i

Signaling By Signature: How International Opinions Influence Treaty Ratification Despite Domestic Veto Players

Veto Players

Signaling Game

Environmental Agreements Dataset

Knowledge Countries

2018

i

Ethnic Conflict in Kosovo: How Victims Differ from Perpetrators in Pro-social Behavior

Pro-social Behavior

Ethnic Conflict

Kosovo

Field Experimentation

2018

i

Oil Wealth Raises The Risk Of Interstate Military Disputes

Oil

Interstate Conflict

Militarized Disputes

Resource Wars

Dyadic Analysis

2018

2 Other

U.S. Human Rights Focus Skewed Toward Allies

i

Structural Topic Models

U.s. State Department Reports

Physical Integrity Rights

Allies

2018

i

Why Some Countries Joined the AIIB Early, Others Later

China

US Allies

UN Voting Patterns

Belt_and_Road_Insights

2018

Why Do States Join China's Asian Infrastructure Bank? Early vs. Late Members' Political Alignments

i

Counter Hegemonism

China Led IGOs

US Alliances

ADB Competition

Logit Models

2018

By Fait Accompli, Not Coercion: How States Wrest Territory from Their Adversaries

i

2017

2017

WWI's Trade Impact: Less Devastation Than Historically Portrayed

i

Liberal Peace

Great War

Substitution Effect

Trade Adaptation

2017

i

Does Cultural Distance Fuel Inter-State Conflicts?

Cultural Distance

Interstate Conflicts

Quantitative Analysis

Historical Disputes

2017

i

Contrarian View: Key Islamic Holidays Linked to Reduced Political Violence

Islamic Calendar Theory

Ramadan Counterfactual

Iraq Conflict Dataset

Afghan Violence Patterns

Pakistani Security Trends

2017

i

MID Heterogeneity Skews Conflict Research, Study Reveals

Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID)

Contiguity

Regime Similarity

Coding Logic

2017

i

Democratic Alliances Solve Power Parity Problem

Power Parity

Democratic Alliances

Uncertainty Reduction

Challenger Behavior

2017

i

Implementation Extends Peace: How CPA Execution Affects Signatories and Non-Parties

Comprehensive Peace Agreements

Intrastate Armed Conflict

Implementation Impact

Commitment Problem Solving

2017

i

Why Do Some States Seek Ethnic Annexation While Others Don’t?

Irredentism

Ethnic Grievance

Political Opportunity

Economic Parity

Kin Groups

2017

i

Mixed Signals: How IMF Lending Announcements Impact Capital Markets Amid Political Motivations

Credibility Crisis

IMF Conditions

Sovereign Bond Yields

Political Motivation

2017

US-backed Regime Changes in Latin America Crashed Trade, New Research Finds

i

Foreign Imposed Regime Change

US Intervention Effects

Latin America Trade Impact

Gravity Model Analysis

2017

New Perspective on Why High-Competition Democracies Avoid Wars

i

Political Competition

Democratic Peace Explanation

Vulnerability To Criticism

Empirical Evidence Synthesis

2017

World Pol.

Electoral Integrity Battles: Outside Powers Often Push Both Candidates AND Processes

i

Electoral Integrity

Candidates

Bias Model

Liberals

Election Wars

2017

i

Direct Diplomacy Before Deadly Escalation: UN Security Council Actions Prevent Civil War

UNSC Resolution Content

Self-determination Movements

Armed Conflict Onset

2017

i

Service Firms in the Politics of US Trade Policy

2017

The Benefits and Burdens of Nuclear Latency

i

2017

2 text files

The Continent or the "Grand Large"? Strategic Culture and Operational Burden-Sharing in NATO

i

2017

Cell Phones Boosted Conflict Data, Not Violence: New Analysis Reveals Reporting Bias Impact

i

2016

Reporting Bias

Cellphone Coverage

Conflict Data

Media Reports

Military Sources

Africa

2016

A Conditional Defense of the Dyadic Approach

i

2016

4 datasets

A Preference for War: How Fairness and Rhetoric Influence Leadership Incentives in Crises

i

2016

Two Types of Audience Costs? Exploring Belligerence in Foreign Policy Crises

i

Audience Cost

Belligerence Cost

Crisis Bargaining

Experimental Design

2016

i

Does Institutional Design Matter? A Study of Trade Effectiveness and PTa Flexibility/Rigidity

2016

Joining Brazil’s Bloc Boosts IMF and World Bank Aid

i

South-South

Brazil

IMF

World Bank

Executive Board

2016

i

IMF Conditionality's Double-Edged Sword: Effects Depend on Government Partisanship

IMF Conditionality

Government Partisanship

Economic Reforms

Post-communist Countries

2016

i

Leader Incentives Fuel Civil War Extremism, New Study Reveals

Leader Incentives

Agency-cost

Ucdp/cw Dataset

Civil War Outcomes

2016

i

Oil and International Cooperation

2016

Selecting Partner Countries for Preferential Trade Agreements: Experimental Evidence From Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Vietnam

i

2016

How Targeted Sanctions Can Make Human Rights Worse

i

Targeted Sanctions

Human Rights

Africa

Signaling

Physical Integrity

2016

II

Terrorism Ignites Wars, But Why? Exploring Two Counterintuitive State Motivations

i

Preventive War

Commitment Problem

African Dyads

Opportunistic Exploitation

2016

i

The Diplomatic Core: The Determinants of High-Level U.S. Diplomatic Visits, 1946-2010

2016

2 PDF files

The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist 'Profiles'

i

2016

The Impact of US Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan

i

2016

New Study Undercuts Grievance Narrative on Postcolonial Conflict

i

Ethnic Politics

Civil War

Representation

Historical Analysis

2016

i

2015

Babies Across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption

2015

Threats vs Promises: Why Leaders Lose Public Support for Inconsistent Foreign Policy

i

Audience Costs

Survey Experiment

Commitment Asymmetry

Foreign Policy

2015

i

Shell Corporations: Why Do Tax Havens Comply More Than OECD Countries?

Field Experiment

Anonymous Incorporation

Tax Havens

OECD Countries

Corruption Risk

Terrorism Risk

2015

3 Stata files

Why Economic Sanctions Rarely Signal Resolve

i

Sanctions

Signaling

Structural Model

Credibility

2015

II

1 Archives

Do International Treaties Boost Credibility via Domestic Legislative Checks?

i

Legislative Veto

Human Rights Treaties

Executive Repression

International Agreements

2015

i

Oil Discoveries, Shifting Power, and Civil Conflict

2015

Simple Numbers Shape International Policy

i

Indicators

Governance

Countries

Watch List

2015

i

Sanctions, Uncertainty, and Leader Tenure

2015

2 R files

Screening out Risk: IGOs, Member State Selection, and Interstate Conflict, 1951-2000

i

2015

Transnational Women's Activism and the Global Diffusion of Gender Quotas

i

2015

Checkpoint Easement Linked to Reduced Palestinian Support for Violence, Study Finds

i

2014

Checkpoint Easement

West Bank

Natural Experiment

Difference-in-difference

2014

Before Ratification: Understanding the Timing of International Treaty Effects on Domestic Policies

i

2014

Timing Matters: Which Territorial Claims Actually Lead to War

i

Steps-to-war

Territorial Claims

Endogeneity

Sequencing

War Onset

2014

II

Impact of IMF Programs on Perceived Creditworthiness of Emerging Market Countries: Is There a "Nixon-Goes-to-China" Effect?

i

2014

Beyond Democracy vs Dictatorship: Personalist Regimes Fuel Nuclear Proliferation

i

Personalist Regimes

Comparative Regime Analysis

Nuclear Proliferation

2014

i

NATO’s Two‑Tier Turn: Rich Allies Subsidize Poor After 2004

NATO

Burden Sharing

Defense Spending

Spearman Test

Wilcoxon Test

2014

9 Datasets

Rebel Threats Boost Postcolonial State Power, Rival States Don't

i

Postcolonial State Building

Transnational Rebels

Interrupted Time Series

Military Intervention

2014

Does Terrorism Actually Help Rebel Groups in African Civil Wars?

i

Concession Seeking

Negotiation Opportunities

Civil War Data

Regression Analysis

2014

i

Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Does Deployment Matter for Alliance Credibility?

Extended Deterrence

Hand-Tying

Sunk Cost

Formal Alliances

2014

How War Funding Shapes States: Taxes Build Capacity, Loans Often Do Not

i

Fiscal Capacity

War Finance

Taxation

Foreign Loans

Globalization

2014

IO

i

What We Talk About When We Talk About Foreign Direct Investment

2014

WTO Rulings Balance Legal Rigor with Political Sensitivity through Strategic Language

i

WTO

National Treatment

Judicial Strategy

Compliance Legitimacy

2014

Internal Fragmentation Heightens Civil War Risk, New Study Reveals

i

2013

Commitment Problems

Information Asymmetry

Civil War Onset

2013

i

Civil Conflicts Explained by Who's Connected to Whom

Civil Conflict

Network Analysis

Game Theory

Thailand

2013

2 archives

Why Mergers Make Sanctions Less Likely: How FDI Entry Mode Shapes Coercion

i

FDI

Sanctions

M&A

Joint Ventures

TIES

2013

II

Institutions and Severe Costs Predict Sanctions Success at All Stages

i

Sanctions

Threats

TIES

Institutions

Sensitivity Analysis

2013

II

2 Text

Victims of ISAF in Afghanistan More Likely to Support Taliban than Their Own Forces

i

Asymmetric Attitudes

Survey Experiment

Afghanistan

Endorsement Technique

2013

i

Investment, Opportunity, and Risk: Do US Sanctions Deter or Encourage Global Investment?

2013

Bilateral agreements and common partners drive international cooperation

i

Network Dynamics

Bilateral Agreements

Trustworthiness

Institutional Design

2013

Sending a Message: The Reputation Effect of US Sanction Threat Behavior

i

2013

The Democratic Peace: Weighing the Evidence and Cautious Inference

i

2013

Treaty Preferences Reveal True Impact of International Agreements?

i

Spatial Model

CEDAW

U.S.A.

Propensity Score Matching

Treaty Commitment

Human Rights

2013

i

Tightening the Belt: Sovereign Debt and Alliance Formation

2013

Contrary to Common Assumptions: UN Peacekeeping Troops and Police Dramatically Reduce Civilian Deaths in African Conflicts

i

Civilian Protection

Un Peacekeeping

Africa Armed Conflicts

Quantitative Evidence

2013

i

2012

A Competing Risks Model of War Termination and Leader Change

2012

A Non-Tariff Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics: Government Subsidies and Electoral Institutions

i

2012

Capitalist Development and Civil War

i

2012

Competing for Scarce Foreign Capital: Spatial Dependence in the Diffusion of Double Taxation Treaties

i

2012

Do Currency Crises Cause Capital Account Liberalization?

i

2012

Does Foreign Investment Really Reduce Repression?

i

2012

Domestic Institutions and Credible Signals

i

2012

Ex Ante Due Diligence: Formation of PTAs and Protection of Labor Rights

i

2012

Folk Realism: Testing the Microfoundations of Realism in Ordinary Citizens

i

2012

Following the Flag or Following the Charter? Examining the Determinants of UN Involvement in International Crises, 1945-2002

i

2012

Free Riding and Protection for Sale

i

2012

6 text files

Guns and Money in the Open Economy: The Exchange Rate and the Demand for Arms Imports

i

2012

Inequality, Institutions, and the Risks to Foreign Investment

i

2012

Information, Commitment, and Intra-War Bargaining: The Effect of Governmental Constraints on Civil War Duration

i

2012

J'accuse! Does Naming and Shaming Perpetrators Reduce the Severity of Genocides or Politicides?

i

2012

Law and the Use of Force in World Politics: The Varied Effects of Law on the Exercise of Military Power in Territorial Disputes

i

2012

Leadership Survival, Regime Type, Policy Uncertainty and PTA Accession

i

2012

Party Politics and International Trade: Mainstream Parties, Niche Parties, and Trade Openness

i

2012

Politics and Paradigm Preferences: The Implicit Ideology of International Relations Scholars

i

2012

Reliability, Reputation, and Alliance Formation

i

2012

Rivalry and State Support of Non-State Armed Groups (NAGs), 1946-2001

i

2012

Shaming and Blaming: Using Events Data to Assess the Impact of Human Rights INGOs

i

2012

Signing Up for Peace: International Boundary Agreements, Democracy, and Militarized Interstate Conflict

i

2012

Supporting Democracy in the Former Soviet Union: Why the Impact of US Assistance Has Been Below Expectations

i

2012

When Dictators Are Weak: Sanctions Succeed During Domestic Crises

i

Sanctions

Authoritarianism

Domestic Instability

Selection Bias

Regression

2012

II

A Supply Side Theory of Mediation

i

2011

2011

Why 78 Days of NATO Bombing Pushed Milošević to Concede

i

Airpower

Coercion

Bargaining

Kosovo

NATO

2011

Domestic Institutions and Wartime Casualties

i

2011

From Melos to Baghdad: Explaining Resistance to Militarized Challenges from More Powerful States

i

2011

Why Black Knights Only Break Sanctions When Traders Join In

i

Sanctions-busting

Black Knights

Competing Risks

US Sanctions

Third Parties

2011

How Economic Sanctions Corrode Democracy

i

2010

Sanctions

Democracy

Authoritarianism

Time-Series

Civil Liberties

2010

II

Dealing with Tyranny: International Sanctions and the Survival of Authoritarian Rulers

i

2010

Friends or Foes? Major Trading Partners and the Success of Economic Sanctions

i

2010

3 other files

Constituent Influence on International Trade Policy in the United States, 1987-2006

i

2009

2009

5 other files

From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict Intensification

i

2009

Multilateral Versus Unilateral Sanctions Reconsidered: A Test Using New Data

i

2009

IMF Lending Paradox: Systemic Risks vs. Political Priorities in Latin America and Eastern Europe

i

IMF Lending

Latin America

Eastern Europe

Systemic Risk

2009

3 Stata files

Sleeping With Your Friends' Enemies: An Explanation of Sanctions-Busting Trade

i

2009

Transnational Terror and Human Rights

i

2009

Why Should I Believe You? The Costs and Consequences of Bilateral Investment Treaties

i

2009

A Hand Upon the Throat of a Nation: Economic Sanctions and State Repression, 1976-2001

i

2008

2008

Constructivist Implications of Material Power: Military Engagement and the Socialization of States, 1972-2000

i

2006

2006

Contested Territory, Strategic Rivalries and Conflict Escalation

i

2006

Democratic Leaders and the Democratic Peace: The Operational Codes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton

i

2006

Economic Policy, Institutions, and Capital Flows: Portfolio and Direct Investment Flows in Developing Countries

i

2006

The Declining Risk of Death in Battle

i

2006

New View on Treaty Effects: Simultaneous Screening and Constraining Found

i

2005

Selection Bias

Constraint Mechanisms

Estimation Techniques

Von Stein 2005

2005

i

2003

War Doesn't End the Violence, Just Shifts Its Forms

Civil War

Mortality

Long-term Effects

Post-conflict Recovery

2003

i

Why Ethnicity Explodes into Civil War: Unpacking Insurgent Dynamics

Ethnicity

Insurgency

Civil War

Conflict Resolution

2003