Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations,
or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people …

For more than a decade, the United States military has conceptualized and discussed the
Internet and related systems as “cyberspace,” understood as a “domain” of conflict like land …

Do states get higher social status from fighting? The prestige of war depends on the type of
“status order” that it is interpreted in. Status orders condition and enable the pursuit and …

Political scientists often wish to classify documents based on their content to measure
variables, such as the ideology of political speeches or whether documents describe a …

Covert action has long been a controversial tool of international relations. However, there is
remarkably little public understanding about whether it works and, more fundamentally …

The article analyzes the contested concept of global health through the lens of orders of
worth. Drawing on pragmatist political and social theory, especially the work of Boltanski and …

Military organizations are generally defined by a “cult of the offensive.” For cyberspace, this
gives rise to an empirical puzzle, at least in the United States. What accounts for the early …

The aim of this essay is twofold. First, it seeks to examine how Russia and the European
Union understand the emerging Eurasian space. We will do this by looking at how the two …

Identifying the links between democracy and foreign security policy has proven elusive. This
paper engages this research agenda by developing a novel theory of “accountability …

How do militaries push back when they oppose civilian initiatives? This article analyses the
sources and character of military dissent, focusing on the United States. It details the sources …