Scholarly work on the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation has grown
significantly over time. Unfortunately, there is a democratic bias to much of this literature as …

Audience costs theory posits that domestic publics punish leaders for making an external
threat and then backing down. One key mechanism driving this punishment involves the …

Evidence suggests that leaders of democratic states experience high costs from violating
past commitments. We argue that because democratic leaders foresee the costs of violation …

A growing body of literature argues that war outcomes affect leaders' tenure in office. But
disagreement persists over how domestic political institutions translate performance in war …

Many enduring questions in international relations theory focus on power relations, so it is
important that scholars have a good measure of relative power. The standard measure of …

This article introduces the Most Important Problem Dataset (MIPD). The MIPD provides
individual-level responses by Americans to “most important problem” questions from 1939 to …

How do domestic political considerations constrain or enable the initiation of interstate
wars? We answer this question in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. While …

Interstate rivalry not only influences a country's international behavior, but also its domestic
conduct. Here, I focus on the connection between interstate rivalry and domestic government …

We estimate audience costs and examine their substantive effects on the evolution of
interstate disputes by using an infinitely repeated and dynamic game of crisis escalation …

Despite sharing attributes that scholars argue promote international cooperation, Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have few formal …