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How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors That Influence Conflict Management Strategies (with Glynn Ellis and Brandon C. Prins), American Political Science Association Conference (2008)
Some studies find that democratic states are more amenable to third party forms of conflict...
 

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IO Mediation of Interstate Conflicts: Moving Beyond the Global vs. Regional Dichotomy (with Holley Hansen and Stephen C. Nemeth), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2008)
Regional and global intergovernmental organizations have grown both in number and scope, yet their role...
 

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The Creation and Expansion of the International Criminal Court: A Legal Explanation (with Emilia Justyna Powell), Midwest Political Science Association Conference (2008)
International courts have proliferated in the international system in the past century, with one hundred...
 

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Bones of Contention: Comparing Territorial, Maritime, and River Issues (with Paul R. Hensel; Thomas E. Sowers, II; and Clayton L. Thyne), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2008)
Contentious issues are important sources of militarized conflict. This article advances an issue-based approach to...
 

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Ruling the Sea: Institutionalization and Privatization of the Global Ocean Commons (with Stephen C. Nemeth, Elizabeth A. Nyman, and Paul R. Hensel), Political Science Publications (2008)
Maritime issues have gained international prominence in recent decades, fueled by the decline in global...
 

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International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements (with Paul R. Hensel), American Journal of Political Science (2007)
The ultimate litmus test of compliance theories occurs in situations where states' interests are directly...
 

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Might Makes Right or Right Makes Might? Two Systemic Democratic Peace Tales (with Ewan Harrison), ECPR Standing Group on International Relations 6th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (2007)
In a path-breaking article, Wade Huntley (1996) reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s pacific union as a systemic...
 

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The International Court of Justice and the World's Three Legal Systems (with Emilia Justyna Powell), Journal of Politics (2007)
This paper seeks to understand why some countries accept the jurisdiction of the International Court...
 

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Conflict management of riparian disputes (with Paul R. Hensel and Thomas E. Sowers, II), Political Geography (2006)
This paper builds on a large literature that explores the linkages between resource scarcity and...
 

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Cooperation in World Politics: The Constraining and Constitutive Effects of International Organizations, International Studies Association Meeting (2006)
Many scholars accept the important role international organizations (IOs) play in facilitating cooperation among states...
 

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Issue indivisibility and territorial claims (with Paul R. Hensel), GeoJournal (2005)
Early research on contentious issues in world politics suggested that there is an important distinction...
 

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Heeding Ray's Advice: An Exegesis on Control Variables in Systemic Democratic Peace Research (with Kelly M. Kadera), Political Science Publications (2005)
We submit our recent systemic democratic peace research to the control variable doctrine of James...
 

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Rivalry and Diversionary Uses of Force (with Brandon C. Prins), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004)
Scholars have argued for some time that the rally ’round the flag phenomenon creates incentives...
 

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A Kantian System? Democracy and Third-Party Conflict Resolution, American Journal of Political Science (2002)
Reports the importance of norms in democratic political process in the U.S. Changes of democratic...
 

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Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions, 1815-1944 (with Brett Leeds, Jeffrey Ritter, and Andrew Long), International Interactions (2002)
This article introduces the Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) dataset. We begin by describing...
 

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Presidential Uses of Force During the Cold War: Aggregation, Truncation, and Temporal Dynamics (with Will H. Moore), American Journal of Political Science (2002)
Focuses on the use of force by the president during the Cold War in the...
 

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Reevaluating Alliance Reliability: Specific Threats, Specific Promises (with Brett Ashley Leeds and Andrew G. Long), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2000)
Previously reported empirical evidence suggests that when conflict arises, military alliances are not reliable; state...
 

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Evolution in Democracy-War Dynamics (with Scott Gates and Håvard Hegre), Journal of Conflict Resolution (1999)
This article explores the evolutionary and endogenous relationship between democracy and war at the system...
 

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Timing the Changes in Political Structures: A New Polity Database (with Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Ranveig Gissinger, and Nils Petter Gleditsch), Journal of Conflict Resolution (1998)
This article introduces the Polity IIId ("d" is for dates) data set. The Polity IIId...
 

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A Supply Side Theory of Mediation (with Mark J.C. Crescenzi, Kelly M. Kadera, and Clayton L. Thyne), Political Science Publications (2008)
We develop and test a theory of the supply side of third party conflict management....