Political psychology in international relations (IR) has undergone a dramatic transformation
in the past two decades, mirroring the broader changes occurring in IR itself. This review …

A wave of recent scholarship has breathed new life into the study of reputation and
credibility in international politics. In this review article, the authors welcome this …

What happens to the diplomatic encounter when it is digitally mediated? This article
investigates how multilateral diplomats, who understand themselves as bringing people and …

It is widely recognized among state leaders and diplomats that personal relations play an
important role in international politics. Recent work at the intersection of psychology …

Bringing together psychological approaches to empathy with research on public preferences
for foreign development aid, we shed light on the role empathy plays in global helping …

With the unprecedented COVID-lockdown in 2020, many peace diplomatic efforts turned
virtual. This represented a temporary loss of many of the usual practices of peace diplomacy …

The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos. The spread of misinformation via social
media and the theft of data and intellectual property, along with regular cyberattacks …

This essay considers the implications of virtual summits replacing in-person multilateral
gatherings of political leaders. Focusing on the loss of physicality, it argues that two critical …

Canonical models of costly signaling in international relations (IR) tend to assume costly
signals speak for themselves: a signal's costliness is typically understood to be a function of …

In the summer of 1980, I went to work as a guard and interpreter at the Norwegian embassy
in Moscow. The work was my partial payment to the Norwegian Army for having taught me …