▪ Abstract International relations theory has long seen the origins, conduct, and termination
of war as a bargaining process. Recent formal work on these issues draws very heavily on …

Theories that link domestic politics, domestic institutional structures, and leader incentives to
foreign affairs have flowered in the past 25 years or so. By unpacking institutional variation …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the
politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important …

We address the strengths and weaknesses of the main available measures of political
regime and extend the dichotomous regime classification first introduced in Alvarez et …

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the
chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive …

One of the most striking findings in political science is the democratic peace: the absence of
war between democracies. Some authors attempt to explain this phenomenon by …

The article reviews the literature on the relationship between democracy and armed conflict,
internal as well as interstate. The review points to several similarities between how …

How do domestic institutions affect autocratic leaders' decisions to initiate military conflicts?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, I argue that institutions in some kinds of dictatorships …

This article examines the evolving definition of transparency from a postmodernist approach.
It traces the meaning of transparency from its use by nongovernmental and supranational …

It is widely accepted that democracies are less conflict prone, if only with other democracies.
Debate persists, however, about the causes underlying liberal peace. This article offers a …