The present article delineates the complex structure of collective identity by incorporating
two levels of analysis. The first, the micro level, pertains to individual society members' …

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 …

From one viewpoint, interstate borders are simple 'artefacts on the ground'. Borders exist for
a variety of practical reasons and can be classified according to the purposes they serve and …

The literature suggests that geographically concentrated groups face a higher likelihood of
conflict. While this finding seems to be commonly accepted, there is no clear consensus that …

War and the State exposes the invalid arguments employed in the unproductive debate
about Realism among international relations scholars, as well as the common fallacy of …

I argue that democracy and peace are both symptoms—not causes—of the removal of
territorial issues between neighbors, and in this sense the “empirical law” of democratic …

We argue that new international borders are rarely new. We propose that when states
choose new borders they use previous administrative frontiers to solve a difficult short-term …

Contrasting claims about the consequences of nuclear weapons rely on different
interpretations about how leaders respond to risk, uncertainty, and the balance of power …

Macedonia's centrality to the making of Greece over the past century provides the empirical
grounding for an exploration of how cultural-symbolic borrowing rather than cross-border …

Given the abundance of evidence that disputed territory matters, we know remarkably little
about the origins of territorial claims. We argue that the presence of competing historical …