The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a
broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the …

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in
confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by …

Many of our theories of international politics rely on microfoundations. In this short note, I
suggest that although there has been increasing interest in microfoundations in international …

Can rebel organizations in a civil conflict use social media to garner international support?
This article argues that the use of social media is a unique form of public diplomacy through …

Abstract “Information politics” INGOs such as Amnesty International have incentives to
maintain their credibility by carefully vetting information about rights abuses committed by …

Increased scholarly focus on climate variability and its implications has given rise to a
substantial literature on the relationship between climate-induced food insecurity and violent …

Existing works on diffusion fail to account for the incapacitating effects conflict events may
have on the operational capability of the combatant sides and how these effects may …

A growing body of applied research on political violence employs split-population models to
address problems of zero inflation in conflict event counts and related binary dependent …

Conventional wisdom about economic interdependence and international conflict predicts
that increasing opportunity costs make war less likely, but some wars occur after costs grow …

Advances in the study of civil war have led to the proliferation of event count data, and to a
corresponding increase in the use of (zero-inflated) count models for the quantitative …