Third-party states consider the regional destabilization consequences of civil wars when
deciding to intervene. However, previous work implicitly assumes that potential interveners …

What are the determinants of democratization? Do the factors that move countries toward
democracy also help them refrain from backsliding toward autocracy? This book attempts to …

The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a
broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the …

How do domestic institutions affect autocratic leaders' decisions to initiate military conflicts?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, I argue that institutions in some kinds of dictatorships …

The article applies the economic theory of alliances to uncover military expenditure burden
sharing in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during 1991–2020, prior to …

In this paper we explore whether countries led by women have fared better during the
COVID-19 pandemic than those led by men. Media and public health officials have lauded …

How do states achieve status? Although we rely on status to explain important phenomena
in international politics—such as wars and the foreign policy of emerging powers—we still …

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 …

There is a heated debate on whether immigration is associated with domestic and
transnational terrorism. As of yet, however, we lacked rigorous evidence that could inform …

Chiozza and Goemans seek to explain why and when political leaders decide to initiate
international crises and wars. They argue that the fate of leaders and the way leadership …