Including new developments and publications which have appeared since the publication of
the first edition in 1995, this second edition:* gives a comprehensive introductory account of …

We seek to answer the question, What effect does international war participation have on the
ability of political leaders to survive in office? We develop a model of political reliability and …

Pollen grains are produced and dispersed as part of the plant reproductive process. They
are usually spherical or elliptical and in the size range 0.01 mm to 0.1 mm. The outer walls …

Instead of assuming that all actors are equally likely to clash, and that they do so
independently of previous clashes, rivalry analysis can focus on the small number of feuding …

International relations scholars have garnered a good deal of evidence indicating that
binding arbitration and adjudication are highly effective means for brokering agreements …

Scholars of Latin America have recently begun to apply the bellicist approach to state
building to the region, the central claim of which is that wars are a great stimulus to …

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new research agenda focused on enduring rivalries,
longstanding competitions between the same pair of states. The original Diehl & Goertz …

The world is a heterogeneous place. Words do not mean the same across ideological,
cultural and political divides. One group's “freedom fighters” are another's “terrorists” and …

We develop and test a general argument about the conditions under which state leaders are
most likely to choose legal dispute resolution over bilateral negotiations as a means to settle …

This study examines the conditions under which states engaged in strategic rivalries choose
to support Non-state Armed Groups (NAGs) that target their rivals. NAGs include ethnic or …