How do foreign rivals perceive and respond to heightened domestic polarization in the
United States? The conventional thinking is that polarization weakens and distracts the …

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China represents one of the most
severe deteriorations of trade cooperation in modern times. In this context, the ferocious …

Research on public opinion and crisis behavior has focused largely on pressures felt by
leaders who have initiated a crisis, not on leaders in target states responding to adversary …

Does individual variation in affective empathetic capacity systemically condition a person's
willingness to support pre-emptive military action? In this note, I theorize that individuals who …

How do observers abroad assess the intentions of rising powers? Influential research in
international relations suggests that rising powers can reassure others by using both …

What is a “net provider of security,” or a “global security provider”? How are such roles
adopted by rising powers? We define a net provider of security as a social role, when an …

Effective strategy requires strategic empathy. Yet what strategic empathy is and how to
practice it remain unclear. As critics warn, the concept is vague and can lead to overly …

Effective strategy requires strategic empathy. Yet what strategic empathy is and how to
practice it remain unclear. As critics warn, the concept is vague and can lead to overly …

Realists rely on two causal processes in International Relations: the lust for power motivates
state behavior from the first image up, and the distribution of power constrains and enables …