Under what conditions do states withdraw from intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)?
Recent events such as Brexit, the US withdrawal from UNESCO, and US threats to withdraw …

Many international organizations (IOs) are currently under pressure and the demise of the
liberal international order is the talk of town. We theorize that institutional characteristics help …

One of the proposed benefits of third-party involvement that has been offered to justify its use
is that it helps reduce the severity of conflict. Existing work finding that peacekee** …

Peacekee** operations have been identified as the most effective and efficient solution to
the highly intractable problem of civil war recurrence; yet, only about 38% of civil wars …

It is argued that threat related to territorial civil wars generates negative interpersonal
attitudes that are both more intense and more broadly oriented than previously thought. That …

When are international organizations (IOs) responsive to the policy problems that motivated
their establishment? While it is a conventional assumption that IOs exist to address …

Member states' challenges to international organizations (IOs) are at the heart of the
supposed crisis of our multilateral order–from the “African bias” debate surrounding the …

A large literature has demonstrated that international action can promote the resolution of
civil wars. However, international actors do not wait until violence starts to seek to manage …

In the mid-1970s, average annual atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide surpassed
330 parts per million (ppm). 1 In an alternative world of heightened climate sensitivity, that …

Major international organizations (IOs) are heavily contested, but they are rarely dissolved.
Scholars have focused on their longevity, making institutional arguments about replacement …