Unsustainable use of freshwater resources worldwide creates enormous challenges for
human societies populating these natural systems, and these challenges are likely to grow …

The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a
broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the …

The effects of climate change on the ocean environment–especially ocean warming,
acidification, and sea level rise–will impact fish stocks and fishers in important ways. Likely …

This paper presents a systematic, global assessment of transboundary watersheds that
identifies regions more likely to experience hydro-political tensions over the next decade …

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 …

Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between
states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first …

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

There is continued discussion in international relations surrounding the existence (or not) of
the'democratic peace'-the idea that democracies do not fight each other. This book argues …

The ultimate litmus test of compliance theories occurs in situations where states' interests
are directly opposed, such as competing interstate claims over territory, maritime areas, and …

In the past four decades scholars have produced a large literature on the relationship
between territory and war. What is clear is that territory has been and will continue to be a …