The initial optimism that greeted the onset of the “Third Wave” of democratization has cooled
with the instability of many new democracies and the proliferation of stable competitive …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the develo** and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

This article summarizes the Correlates of War Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)
Version 3.0 datasets. The new datasets include information about the population of IGOs in …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

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 …

The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what
extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find …

Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world
peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding …

Trades of money for political influence persist at every level of government. Not surprisingly,
governments themselves trade money for political support on the international stage …

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 …

Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to
countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to …