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 …

The question of what causes war has concerned statesmen since the time of Thucydides.
The Steps to War utilizes new data on militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001 to …

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 …

New domains of military conflict, such as space and cyber, arguably increase opportunities
for conflict across, as well as within, domains. Cross-domain conflict is thus seen by many as …

Stuart Bremer often reminded us that third parties—directly or indirectly—affect the initiation,
evolution, and termination of conflict. He encouraged scholars to research the phenomenon …

Research confirms that interdemocratic conflicts are more likely to be resolved peacefully.
However, do the usual results hold up for especially contentious issues such as territory …

This paper analyses the evolution of Sino-Japanese rivalry in the security sphere
concentrating on the Chinese perspective, and placing it within the wider context of complex …

Introducing students to the scientific study of peace and war, Conflict, War, and Peace: An
Introduction to Scientific Research, edited by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A …

Coopetition, emphasizing joint value creation and cooperation between competing firms, is
still a relatively new concept in the field of management studies. Value creation is strongly …

The goal of this article is to engage the concept of rivalry, analyze its possible deficiencies,
and empirically identify which groups of states make up what we call complex rivals. A …