A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of
liberal hegemony is doomed to fail It is widely believed in the West that the United States …

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the
chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive …

What Do We Know about War? reviews the causes of war and the conditions of peace.
Drawing analyses from the thirty-five year history of this discipline, leading researchers …

Classical-liberal arguments about the pacifying effects of international trade are revisited,
and it is argued that they consistently refer to the ability of trade to provide 'connections' …

Debate surrounding" China's rise," and the prospects of its possible challenge to America's
preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should" contain" or" …

Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the
potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract …

Abstract Fifteen years ago, Charles Kegley spoke of a neoidealist moment in international
relations. This article examines how the number of armed conflicts has declined in the …

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other
democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify …

Studies of the trade-conflict relationship typically emphasize dyadic over multilateral trade,
ignoring the large-scale effects of trade integration. Openness, a common measure of …

In addition to the explicit goal of advancing mutual economic interests, regional economic
organizations (REOs) are intended to foster regional cohesion and peace. Drawing on a …