Certain regions of the world experience more conflict than others. Previous analyses have
shown that a civil war in one country significantly increases the likelihood that neighboring …

International relations research has regarded networks as a particular mode of organization,
distinguished from markets or state hierarchies. In contrast, network analysis permits the …

Democracy does not evolve sui generis. The spatial clustering in democracy and transitions
suggests that international factors play a prominent role in forging democracies as well as …

Spatial Regression Models illustrates the use of spatial analysis in the social sciences within
a regression framework and is accessible to readers with no prior background in spatial …

Existing research has related civil war primarily to country-specific factors or processes that
take place within individual states experiencing conflict. Many contemporary civil wars …

Civil wars cluster in space as well as time. In this study, we develop and evaluate empirically
alternative explanations for this observed clustering. We consider whether the spatial pattern …

While a mature body of the economic literature has shown that financial development is
broadly conducive to economic growth, the question as to whether this also applies to the …

In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations
and the United States affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 160 …

Although spatial econometrics is being used more frequently in political science, most
applications are still based on geographic notions of distance. Here we argue that it is often …

Media coverage of civil wars often focuses on the most gruesome atrocities and the most
extreme conflicts, which might lead one to think that all civil wars involve massive violence …