Recently Published
Recently Published
Browse recently published articles by month, including summaries (previews of forthcoming full-text articles).
May 2017
Advocacy Coalitions in Foreign Policy (Jonathan Pierce, Katherine Hicks)
Analogies and Metaphors and Foreign Policy Decision-Making (William Flanik)
Arms Control and Arms Reductions in Foreign Policy (Harald Mueller)
Capitalist Peace Theory: A Critical Appraisal (Gerald Schneider)
Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection (William Smith, Kimberley Brownlee)
Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy (Sibel Oktay)
Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis (Jeffrey S. Lantis, Ryan Beasley)
Conflict Management of Territorial Disputes (Krista E. Wiegand)
Constructivism (Friedrich Kratochwil)
Defining and Operationalizing Context Through a Structural Political Geography for International Relations (Colin Flint, Raymond J. Dezzani)
Diplomacy in Foreign Policy (Kenneth Weisbrode)
Electoral Systems and Policy Outcomes (Stephanie J. Rickard)
Emerging Powers in Foreign Policy (Leslie Wehner)
Ethics in Foreign Policy (Dan Bulley)
Foreign Policy Leadership in the Global South (Andrea Grove)
Foreign Policy Learning (Guy Ziv)
Foreign Policy Mistakes (Akan Malici)
Foundations of Rivalry Research (David R. Dreyer)
Great Power and Foreign Policy (Carla Martinez Machain, Rebecca Kaye, Jared Oestman)
How the Contractualist Peace Overtook the Democratic Peace (Michael Mousseau, Xiongwei Cao)
Immigration and International Political Economy (Margaret E. Peters)
Institutions and the Global Political Economy (Lisa L. Martin)
International Law and Foreign Policy (Joel H. Westra)
Intractable Conflict and Peacemaking from a Socio-Psychological Approach (Soli Vered, Daniel Bar-Tal)
Labor and the Global Political Economy (Layna Mosley)
Leadership and Public Administration (Ludger Helms)
Left-Right Orientations and Voting Behavior (Willy Jou, Russell J. Dalton)
Military Intervention in Interstate and Civil Wars: A Unified Interpretation (Zachary C. Shirkey)
More than Mixed Results: What We Have Learned from Quantitative Research on the Diversionary Hypothesis (Benjamin O. Fordham)
Multiculturalism and Political Philosophy (Annamari Vitikainen)
National Secession (Philip G. Roeder)
Nothing About Us Without Us: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Paul Harpur)
Policy Entrepreneurs and Foreign Policy Decision Making (Michael Mintrom, Joannah Luetjens)
Policy Success and Failure (Allan McConnell)
Political Narratives and "Abraham Obama" (Molly Andrews)
Political Partisanship as a Social Identity (Leonie Huddy, Alexa Bankert)
Political Party Organizations (Thomas Poguntke, Susan E. Scarrow, Paul D. Webb)
Political Psychology of Foreign Policy (David Houghton)
Problem Definition and the Policy Process: Wicked Problems (Brian W. Head)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Set Theory (Claudius Wagemann)
Queer International Relations (Melanie Richter-Montpetit, Cynthia Weber)
Racial Priming with Implicit and Explicit Messages (Michael Tesler)
Regions of War and Peace in Foreign Policy (Alex Weisiger)
Role Theory in Foreign Policy (Marijke Breuning)
Secession and Recognition in Foreign Policy (James Ker-Lindsay)
Sequences in Foreign Policy Decision Making (Binnur Ozkececi-Taner)
Slovenia and the European Union (Ana Bojinović Fenko, Marjan Svetličič)
Small State Foreign Policy (Baldur Thorhallsson, Sverrir Steinsson)
Social Identity Theory: Status and Identity in International Relations (Deborah Welch Larson)
Sociological Institutionalism and European Integration (Sabine Saurugger)
Sweden and the European Union (Karl Magnus Johansson)
Symbolic Politics as International Relations Theory (Stuart J. Kaufman)
Systemic Causes of Civil Wars (Ann Hironaka)
Territory and Contentious Issues (Paul R. Hensel)
The Aftermaths of Civil Conflicts (Jaclyn M. Johnson, Clayton L. Thyne)
The Council of Ministers of the European Union (Jeffrey Lewis)
The Diverging Theory and Practice of International Law (Leslie Johns)
The English School: History and Primary Institutions as Empirical IR Theory? (Barry Buzan, George Lawson)
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making (Paul Cairney)
The Power-Transition Discourse and China's Rise (Steve Chan)
Theoretical Underpinnings of a Global Social Contract (Takashi Inoguchi)
Theories of Civil War Onset: Promises and Pitfalls (Adrian Florea)
Theory of Regional War and Peace (Benjamin Miller)
Transfer and Learning: Do They Go Together? (David P. Dolowitz)
Unipolarity: The Shaky Foundation of a Fashionable Concept (James H. Lebovic)
What Do We Know About Civil War Duration?: A Bargaining Perspective (David E. Cunningham)
What Helps Protect Human Rights: Human Rights Theory and Evidence (Jessica Anderson, Amanda Murdie)
April 2017
Counterfactuals and Foreign Policy Analysis (Richard Ned Lebow)
Evidence-Based Policy (Linda Courtenay Botterill)
Field Experiments on Political Behavior (Peter John)
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy Tool (Clair Apodaca)
Foreign Policy Belief Systems and Operational Code Analysis (Akan Malici), summary
Geography and Foreign Policy (Steve Pickering)
Identity and Foreign Policy (Srdjan Vucetic)
Incrementalism and Public Policy-Making (Michael Hayes)
International Organizations and Foreign Policy (Diana Panke, Ingo Henneberg)
Liberalism (Samuel Freeman)
Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy (Brandon Prins, Ursula Daxecker)
Parliaments in Foreign Policy (Wolfgang Wagner)
Performance Management in Public Administration (Johabed G. Olvera, Claudia N. Avellaneda)
Political Budget Cycles (Laase Aaskoven, David Dreyer Lassen)
Securitization Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis (Roxanna Sjöstedt)
Suffrage Rights (Humberto Llavador)
The Two-Good Theory in Practice: From Abstract Generalization to Specific Inference (T. Clifton Morgan, Glenn Palmer)
Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis (Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Patrick Mello), summary
March 2017
Beliefs and Foreign Policy Decision-Making (Mark Schafer, Gary Smith), summary
Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis (Aaron Rapport)
Comparative Political Regimes: Consensus and Majoritarian Democracy (Matthijs Bogaards)
Comparative Public Policy (Guillaume Fontaine)
Democratic Domestic Institutions and Foreign Policy (Eric Hamilton), summary
Do Campaigns Make a Difference? (Paul Whiteley)
Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making (Rose McDermott)
Energy Policy (Jale Tosun)
Evolution, Adaptation, and Imitation (Richard Ned Lebow)
Foreign-Imposed Regime Change (Dan Reiter)
Gender and Foreign Policy (Alexis Leanna Henshaw), summary
Historiography of Foreign Policy Analysis (Andreas Fahrmeir), summary
Image Theory and the Initiation of Strategic Rivalries (Manjeet S. Pardesi)
International Political Economy and the Environment (Gabriele Spilker, Vally Koubi, Thomas Bernauer)
Mediation and Foreign Policy (Robert U. Nagel, Govinda Clayton)
Opportunity and Willingness: From "Ordering Concepts" to an Analytical Perspective for the Study of Politics (Harvey Starr)
Policy Problems (Patrik Marier)
Political Attitudes and Behavior under Autocracy (Michael Bratton)
Populism in Foreign Policy (Angelos Chryssogelos), summary
Social and Political Power (Keith Dowding)
The Foreign Policy Implications of Financial Crises (Ronja Kempin), summary
Transitional Justice During Armed Conflict (Cyanne E. Loyle)
Use of Force in Foreign Policy (Stephen L. Quackenbush, Thomas R. Guarrieri), summary
Veto Player Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis (Kai Oppermann, Klaus Brummer), summary
February 2017
Hegemony in Foreign Policy (Richard Ned Lebow, Simon Reich), summary
Military Defection and the Arab Spring (Risa A. Brooks)
Organized Crime in Foreign Policy (Niklas Swanström, Christina Wenngren), summary
Path Dependency in Foreign Policy (Anika C. Leithner, Kyle M. Libby), summary
Realism in Foreign Policy Analysis (Anders Wivel), summary
The First Wave of Foreign Policy Analysis (Valerie Hudson), summary
January 2017
Dead Ends and New Paths in the Study of Economic Voting (Timothy Hellwig, Dani M. Marinova)
Defending Classical Geopolitics (Phil Kelly)
Discrimination (Frej Klem Thomsen)
Disproportionate Policy Response (Moshe Maor)
Expectancy Theory and the Election of Judges: Do Judicial Campaigns Really Stink? (Michael J. Nelson, James L. Gibson)
Implementation and the Policy Process (Peter Hupe)
International Security: Nuclear Proliferation (Wilfred Wan, Etel Solingen)
Is Democracy a Cause of Peace? (Dan Reiter)
New Policy Instruments (Anthony R. Zito)
Partisan Media and Polarization: Challenges for Future Work (Matthew Levendusky)
Perfect Deterrence Theory (Frank C. Zagare)
Personality and Political Behavior (Matthew Cawvey, Matthew Hayes, Damarys Canache, Jeffery J. Mondak)
Political Trust and the "Crisis of Democracy" (Tom W. G. van der Meer)
Politometrics: Quantitative Models of Political Institutions (Josep M. Colomer)
Popular Understanding of Democracy (Doh Chull Shin)
Predatory Government and the Feasibility of Rebellion: A Micro Logic of the Capitalist Peace (Indra de Soysa)
Prioritarianism (Nils Holtug)
Process-Tracing Methods in Social Science (Derek Beach)
Protest and Contentious Action (Mario Quaranta)
Public Administration of the European Union (Jarle Trondal)
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior (Aida Just)
Role Theory as an Empirical Theory of International Relations: From Metaphor to Formal Model (Stephen G. Walker)
Social Structure and Voting Choice (Oddbjørn Knutsen)
The Changing Nature of Political Party Membership (Susan E. Scarrow)
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (Hylke Dijkstra, Sophie Vanhoonacker)
The International Political Economy of Regionalism (Tanja A. Börzel, Soo Yeon Kim)
The Judicial Hierarchy (John P. Kastellec)
The Politics of Fires and Haze in Southeast Asia (Helena Varkkey)
Theorizing the U.S. Supreme Court (Charles M. Cameron, Lewis A. Kornhauser)
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of International Relations (Rose McDermott, Christian Davenport)
War in Political Philosophy (Helen Frowe)
Women and Terrorism (Mia Bloom)
December 2016
240 Years of Foreign Policy Moods in a Democracy Which Grew into a Superpower: What it Means for IR Theory (Jack E. Holmes), summary
Civilian Self-Protection and Civilian Targeting in Armed Conflicts: Who Protects Civilians? (Betcy Jose, Peace A. Medie)
Conflict, Regions, and Regional Hierarchies (Thomas J. Volgy, Kelly Marie Gordell, Paul Bezerra, Jon Patrick Rhamey, Jr.), summary
Food Safety Policy: Transnational, Hybrid, Wicked (Eva Thomann), summary
Managing Internationalized Civil Wars (Erin K. Jenne, Milos Popovic), summary
Social Choice Theory and Legislative Institutions (Nicholas R. Miller), summary
The Content and Effect of Political Advertising in U.S. Campaigns (Matthew P. Motta, Erika Franklin Fowler)
The Effectiveness of Peace Keeping Operations (Jessica Di Salvatore, Andrea Ruggeri), summary
The Foreign Policy of Sub-State Territories (Samuel Lucas McMillan), summary
Theories of International Norm Contestation: Structure and Outcomes (Jeffrey S. Lantis), summary
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