Territorial claims with an ethnic or identity component have been recognized as one of the
most enduring and intractable sources of international conflict. Building on previous …

How do religiously salient issues influence the peaceful resolution of interstate territorial
disputes? Conflict scholars tend to represent “religious” disputes as uniquely resistant to …

The dissertation examines the effects and onset of biased mediation in international conflicts
in three related essays. Specifically, it answers whether biased mediators are more …