Are there systematic political economy factors that shape preferences for foreign aid, a key
component of American foreign policy? We analyze votes in the House of Representatives …

The debate around humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect generally
concerns a collective action problem on the international level: motivating states to …

Abstract Since 1944, United States financing of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has
been appropriated and approved in Congress by roll-call vote. If voting to increase funds to …

This article contributes to a burgeoning literature on parliamentary war powers by
investigating the case of the US Congress drawing on both International Relations (IR) …

I present a foreign policy decision-making theory that accounts for why US food aid is used
strategically when other more powerful economic aid tools are at the disposal of …

Most research on congressional consideration of foreign and defense policy concludes that
ideology is the most important influence on roll-call voting and that constituent economic …

As of January 2008, more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million
people have been displaced in the regions of Darfur and Chad. This event has not gone …

Reams have been written on the state secrets privilege and its consequences for litigants'
rights. So too have scholars explored individuals' rights to challenge security clearance …

We develop a theory of foreign policy voting in the Senate premised on the assumption that
foreign policy programs are a mostly collective good whose costs and benefits accrue to all …

" We're going to be as strong an advocate as we can be, but with 10 percent unemployment,
urgent needs at home, a trillion-dollar budget deficit, and focus on creating jobs, there is no …