Journal ArticleJournal of East Asian Studies · March 2, 2023
The Japanese public has been assumed to possess a deeply ingrained aversion toward the acquisition of nuclear weapons. We employ a survey experiment to ascertain whether this aversion is unconditional or may erode in the face of hypothetical deterioration ...
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ConferenceInternational Studies Review · September 1, 2019
Many scholars are dissatisfied with the tendency of research and teaching in the field of international relations to be framed as clashes among competing schools of thought. I examine two prominent options for reform that relate to the schools and offer on ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
I thank Robert Art, Ajin Choi, Peter Feaver, and David Priess for their comments on this paper. I also received helpful comments when I delivered earlier drafts to a session of the Peter B. Lewis Series on “New Thinking in International Relations Theory,” ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Political Science · April 1, 2015
Numerous prominent theories have relied on the concept of "audience costs" as a central causal mechanism in their arguments about international conflict, but scholars have had greater difficulty in demonstrating the efficacy and even the existence of such ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Introduction North Korea’s increasingly advanced nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs raise a fundamental question: As it becomes a nuclear state, will North Korea become more bellicose toward South Korea, Japan, and the United States? This quest ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · June 1, 2011
Recent scholarship on international institutions has begun to explore potentially powerful indirect pathways by which international institutions may influence states' domestic politics and thereby influence the foreign policy preferences and strategies of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Peace Research · January 1, 2008
Can the world be made more peaceful through commerce? Empirical studies of the impact of trade on military conflict have yielded conflicting results depending on the specific measures and empirical domains that scholars select for their studies. The articl ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2007
The demise of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 and the continuing and even growing material pre-eminence of the USA throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium is thought by some to have caused a funda- mental shift in the structure of the inter ...
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Other · December 1, 2003
The debate about the relationship between economic interdependence and military conflict is one of the oldest in the field of international relations. Most recently, this debate has been dened by the starkly contrasting conclusions of John R. Oneal and Bru ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · January 1, 2001
Otherwise powerful, formidable democracies are tempting targets for international violence because they have leaders who, on average, have been in office for shorter periods of time than leaders of autocracies. Domestic incentives may make resistance more ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · September 1993
Modern realism claims that the fear that others will enjoy relatively greater benefits frequently impedes international cooperation. Recent articles in thisReviewby Duncan Snidal and Robert Powell modeled conditions under ...
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