Powerful countries use foreign media broadcasts to enhance their soft power, yet there is
scant empirical evidence as to whether such efforts actually sway public opinion abroad …

Some of the most enduring and dangerous territorial disputes often involve claims of
historical ownership by at least one side of a dispute. Why does historical ownership lead to …

Territorial disputes are prone to conflict because of the value of territory to publics, whether
due to its strategic and material worth, or to its intangible, symbolic value. Yet despite the …

What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to
conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren …

In this paper, we explore how concerns about entrapment influence mass attitudes about
armed support for an alliance partner. We focus on two separate dimensions of entrapment …

" The value of a pragmatist and relational view of normativity lies in two contributions. The
first is that which escapes the'co-constitutionalist'binary that is ontologically embedded in …

This study investigates how individuals may develop more or less strong beliefs in the
indivisibility of a disputed territory and how such beliefs may influence their policy …

When are domestic publics most sympathetic to nationalist territorial ambitions? Conflict
scholars commonly assume support should be greatest when territory is framed as being of …

This study develops and examines the concept of hegemonic religion and its relationship
with democracy. A religion is hegemonic not only when the state grants that religion …

This article addresses the communicative processes through which leaders succeed or fail
to generate public support for going to war. In order to answer this question, I rely on the …