From Foes to Friends: The Causes of Interstate Rapprochement and Conciliation

M Mattes, JLP Weeks - Annual Review of Political Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
When, why, and how do countries move from hostile to peaceful relations, and sometimes
even friendship? We draw on the interstate peace literature to identify two peace processes …

Redefining the debate over reputation and credibility in international security: Promises and Limits of New Scholarship

R Jervis, K Yarhi-Milo, D Casler - World Politics, 2021 - cambridge.org
A wave of recent scholarship has breathed new life into the study of reputation and
credibility in international politics. In this review article, the authors welcome this …

Four costly signaling mechanisms

K Quek - American Political Science Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
Two mechanisms of costly signaling are known in international relations: sinking costs and
tying hands. I show that there exist four mechanisms of costly signaling that are equally …

Hawkish biases and group decision making

JD Kertzer, M Holmes, BL LeVeck… - International …, 2022 - cambridge.org
How do cognitive biases relevant to foreign policy decision making aggregate in groups?
Many tendencies identified in the behavioral decision-making literature—such as reactive …

A blessing or a curse? China's Arctic involvement and its environmental policy to prevent further climatic change and pollution

Y Wang - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
The protection and sustainable use of environmental resources is one of the most salient
tasks in Arctic regional governance, given that the region is a particularly fragile zone …

[BOOK][B] Monitors and meddlers: how foreign actors influence local trust in elections

SS Bush, L Prather - 2022 - books.google.com
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around
elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even …

Public opinion on geopolitics and trade: Theory and evidence

A Carnegie, N Gaikwad - World Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article provides a systematic examination of the role of security considerations in
sha** mass preferences over international economic exchange. The authors employ …

Domestic distributional roots of national interest

S Lee - American Political Science Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to
conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren …

[BOOK][B] Beyond rationality: Behavioral political science in the 21st century

A Mintz, NA Valentino, C Wayne - 2021 - books.google.com
How and why do people make political decisions? This book is the first to present a unified
framework of the Behavioral Political Science paradigm.–BPS presents a range of …

Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making

T Jost, JD Kertzer, E Min, R Schub - International Organization, 2024 - cambridge.org
Do advisers affect foreign policy and, if so, how? Recent scholarship on elite decision
making prioritizes leaders and the institutions that surround them, rather than the …