Journal ArticleBritish Journal of Political Science · 2026
AbstractDo perceived foreign policy failures shape assessments of a country’s leadership in the eyes of international observers? We explore the consequences of foreign policy failures using global reactio ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · January 1, 2025
How do international endorsements of separatist movements by foreign powers impact popular views toward secession? Much literature on secessionist movements focuses on subnational bargaining between the government and separatist groups. However, these mode ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · April 1, 2024
Many international agreements, from routine trade deals to high-stakes nuclear agreements, are negotiated in secret. However, we have a limited understanding of how secrecy in a negotiation shapes attitudes towards the agreement. Public opinion matters bec ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · January 1, 2024
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 United States, emboldening its adversaries. However, untested assumptions underlie ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2024
How does partisan polarization in the United States affect foreign perceptions of its security commitments and global leadership? In a survey experiment fielded to 2000 adults in the United Kingdom, I demonstrate that priming respondents to think about US ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Politics · October 1, 2022
How does partisan polarization in the United States affect foreign perceptions of its security commitments and global leadership? In a survey experiment fielded to 2000 adults in the United Kingdom, I demonstrate that priming respondents to think about US ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Organization · June 2, 2022
Scholarship on human rights diplomacy (HRD)-efforts by government officials to engage publicly and privately with their foreign counterparts-often focuses on actions taken to name and shame target countries because private diplomatic activities are unobser ...
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Journal ArticleDemocratization · January 1, 2022
A growing literature examines democratic backsliding, but there is little consensus on when, where, and why it occurs. Reviewing more than 100 recent articles and working papers, this research note argues that inattention to the measurement of backsliding ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Organization · August 17, 2021
A common explanation for the increasing polarization in contemporary American foreign policy is the absence of external threat. I identify two mechanisms through which threats could reduce polarization: by revealing information about an adversary that elic ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Global Security Studies · March 1, 2021
AbstractThe spread of civil war poses serious risks and costs. We argue that conflict environments, which vary across time and space, systematically exacerbate the spread of civil war. As conflict in a state’s neighborhood ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · September 1, 2020
How do the perceived motives of donor states shape recipient attitudes toward foreign aid in a conflict zone? This research note evaluates the impact of two frames that characterize the motives of foreign powers involved in a civil conflict in the Donbas r ...
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