Unsustainable use of freshwater resources worldwide creates enormous challenges for
human societies populating these natural systems, and these challenges are likely to grow …

The effects of climate change on the ocean environment–especially ocean warming,
acidification, and sea level rise–will impact fish stocks and fishers in important ways. Likely …

All autocrats rely on inner-circle elites to stay in power. It is commonly assumed that dictators
will purge these elites if they unsuccessfully try to unseat the dictator in a coup. However …

Students of world politics have long shown a special interest in sea power. International
relations, however, tends to treat the means of power as homogeneous and …

Does diplomacy affect the prospects of international conflict and cooperation? Systematic
empirical assessment has been hindered by the inferential challenges of separating …

This article contributes to a growing literature that questions the traditional 'politics stops at
the water's edge'paradigm. Left-and right-wing parties hold diverging ideologies and …

This article introduces the Psychological Characteristics of Leaders (PsyCL) data set.
Foreign policy decisions are made by humans, and human psychology affects those …

The “rally'round the flag” effect—a short-term boost in a political leader's popularity during an
interstate political dispute—was first proposed by more than half a century ago. However …

A state's decision to engage in cyber operations has important implications for its trade.
Successful cyber espionage could yield valuable trade secrets that could boost domestic …

A wave of recent scholarship shows that the backgrounds of political leaders shape their
behavior once in office. This paper shifts the literature in a new direction by investigating the …