Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who
elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses …

A common explanation for the increasing polarization in contemporary American foreign
policy is the absence of external threat. I identify two mechanisms through which threats …

Democratic publics have always struggled to constrain their elected leaders' foreign policy
actions. By its nature, foreign policy creates information asymmetries that disadvantage …

Polarization in the USA has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few
observers expect politics today to stop “at the water's edge,” as the old cliché goes. But key …

Recent studies have made great strides looking at the implications that the human need for
ontological security has for politics and International Relations. However, less attention has …

To what extent are US elected officials polarized on foreign policy? And how do patterns of
polarization and bipartisanship differ across policy areas? Using an original data set of …

Can propaganda produced by foreign adversaries shape public opinion in a target country?
We develop a theoretical framework to understand outward-facing propaganda, which many …

Researchers debate the extent of issue polarization in the United States, as well as what
role (if any) social identities such as partisanship and religion play in issue polarization. In …

Given the US president's leading role in many areas of American foreign policy, one might
expect the president to prevail in executive-legislative clashes over economic sanctions. In …

Abstract Can the United States continue to shape international politics as it has done for the
past 70 years, or is the era of US preponderance coming to an end? Most attempts to …