Publications

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A Re-assessment of Liberal Pacifism at the Monadic Level of Analysis, Conflict Management and Peace Science (2008)

Are democracies are generally peaceful? The literature was in the past contradictory, although now there...

 

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Intergovernmental Organization Memberships: Examining Political Community and the Attributes of International Organizations (with Timothy Nordstrom), International Interactions (2008)

Why are states jointly members in certain intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) but not others? Despite the...

 

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The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict, Politics and Policy (2007)

Studies of diversionary conflict typically claim that lower rates of economic growth and domestic unrest...

 

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Do Intergovernmental Organizations Promote Peace? (with Erik Gartzke and Tim Nordstrom), World Politics (2004)
 

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Peripheral Long Cycles in Trade and Production: The Peruvian and Argentine Cases, Journal of the Third World Spectrum (1998)
 

Current and Recent Submissions

If They Only Had Cake: The Effect of Food Supply on Civil War Onset, 1960-1999 (with David Sobek), Journal of Politics (2007)

Poor states are more likely to experience civil conflict, but what about poverty places their...

 

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Violent Adolescence: State Development and the Propensity for Militarized Interstate Conflict (with David Sobek), Journal of Peace Research (2005)

This paper examines how economic development affects interstate conflict. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship between...

 

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Investing in the Peace: Economic Interdependence and International Conflict (with Erik Gartzke and Quan Li), International Organization (2001)