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Joseph Grieco

Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Political Science
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
291 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Reluctant ratifiers: The crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court

Journal article International Interactions · January 1, 2025 A unanimous agreement among state parties to the Rome Statute of 1998 to make the crime of aggression an operational part of the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC) was the key result of the first Review Conference for the Statute in Ju ... Full text Cite

External Threats and Public Opinion: The East Asian Security Environment and Japanese Views on the Nuclear Option

Journal article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

Competency Costs in Foreign Affairs: Presidential Performance in International Conflicts and Domestic Legislative Success, 1953-2001

Journal article American 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 ... Full text Cite

Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War

Journal article International 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 ... Full text Cite

Liberal International Theory and Imagining the End of the Cold War

Journal article British Journal of International Relations · May 2009 Cite

Democracy, Interdependence, and the Liberal Peace

Journal article Journal of Peace Research · 2008 Cite

Democracy, interdependence, and the sources of the liberal peace

Journal article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

Repetitive Military Challenges and Recurrent International Conflicts, 1918-1994

Journal article International Studies Quarterly · June 2001 Cite

Attracting trouble: Democracy, leadership tenure, and the targeting of militarized challenges, 1918-1992

Journal article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

The Maastricht Treaty, Economic and Monetary Union, and the Neorealist Research Programme

Journal article Review of International Studies · January 1995 Cite

The Relative-Gains Problem for International Cooperation

Journal article American 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 ... Full text Cite

The Concorde SST and Change in the British Polity

Journal article World Politics · July 1979 Cite