This essay reviews the growing literature on the democratic peace. It assesses the evidence
on whether democracies are more peaceful and, if so, in what ways. This assessment …

I consider the influence of domestic political institutions on the ability of leaders to establish
bilateral cooperation in the international system. Leaders operating in different domestic …

This book presents a systematic reassessment of the theoretical and empirical foundations
of the democratic peace literature. Three distinct theoretical models of how domestic political …

International relations scholars make frequent use of pooled cross-sectional regression in
which N dyads over T time points are combined to create NT observations. Unless special …

The literature on the democratic peace has emerged from two empirical claims:(1)
Democracies are unlikely to conflict with one another, and (2) democracies are as prone to …

Relevant dyads are pairs of contiguous states or pairs of states including at least one major
power. They are argued to be the population of dyads at risk of international conflict and are …

When and why do states transfer nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge to other
states for peaceful purposes? This question is important given the recent finding that …

Foreign policy in the new millennium looks different from the traditional state-centered, top-
down edicts issued by nation states throughout the 20th century. New actors and new …

Recent research suggests that democracies have advantages and disadvantages in wars.
Democracies are more likely to win the wars they initiate and the ones in which they are …

Errol Henderson critically examines what has been called the closest thing to an empirical
law in world politics, the concept of the democratic peace. Henderson tests two versions of …