This article summarizes the Correlates of War Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)
Version 3.0 datasets. The new datasets include information about the population of IGOs in …

What is status? How does it work? What effects does it tend to have? A new wave of
scholarship on status in international relations has converged on a central definition of …

Why do leading actors invest in costly projects that they expect will not yield appreciable
military or economic benefits? We identify a causal process in which concerns about …

We call for a research program focused on the dynamics of global power politics. Rather
than link realpolitik to structural-realist theoretical frameworks or the putatively anarchical …

This article outlines a field-theoretic variation of hegemonic-order theory—one inspired
primarily by the work of Pierre Bourdieu. We argue that hegemony derives from the …

Many scholars now argue for deemphasizing the importance of international anarchy in
favor of focusing on hierarchy–patterns of super-and subordination–in world politics. We …

This paper explores the question of how major powers signal support for their protégés. We
develop a theory that explains why major powers show support for some protégés using …

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

We theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint explain why more
democratic dyads do not engage in military conflict with each other. We build on earlier …

Instruments based on realizations of the endogenous variable in other units—for instance,
regional or global weighted averages—are commonly used in political science. Such spatial …