Recently Published
Recently Published
Browse recently published articles by month, including summaries (previews of forthcoming full-text articles).
August 2017
240 Years of Foreign Policy Moods in a Democracy Which Grew into a Superpower: What it Means for IR Theory (Jack E. Holmes)
Archival Research in Foreign Policy (Deborah Welch Larson)
Civil War and Terrorism: A Call for Further Theory Building (Charity Butcher)
Congress and Foreign Policy (Bryan W. Marshall)
Cultural Influences on Foreign Policy (Huiyun Feng)
Cumulative Knowledge, Science, and the Emergence of International Relations (Torbjørn L. Knutsen)
Dynamics, Endogeneity, and Complexity in Protest Campaigns (Karen A. Rasler)
Economic Interdependence and Conflict (Hyojoon Chang, Scott L. Kastner)
Empirical Analyses of Deterrence (Stephen L. Quackenbush)
Empirically Assessing the Bargaining Theory of War: Potential and Challenges (Erik A. Gartzke, Paul Poast)
Hegemony in Foreign Policy (Richard Ned Lebow, Simon Reich)
Immigration and Foreign Policy (Anna Oltman, Jonathan Renshon)
Latin American Thinking in International Relations: Concepts in the Place of Theory (Raúl Bernal-Meza)
Multilevel Governance as a Global Governance Challenge: Assumptions, Methods, Shortcomings, and Future Directions (Joachim K. Rennstich)
Multiple Streams in Foreign Policy (Nikolaos Zahariadis)
Nuclear Weapons in Foreign Policy (Molly Berkemeier, Matthew Fuhrmann)
Ontological Security and Foreign Policy (Jennifer Mitzen, Kyle Larson)
Organized Crime in Foreign Policy (Niklas Swanström, Christina Wenngren)
Power and National Capability (Brian Crisher)
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy (Douglas Foyle)
Regime Type and FDI: A Transaction Economics Cost Approach to the Debate (Austin P. Johnson, Quan Li)
Signaling in Foreign Policy (Erik A. Gartzke, Shannon Carcelli, J Andres Gannon, Jiakun Jack Zhang)
Social Media and Foreign Policy (Trevor Rubenzer)
State and Nonstate Armed Groups (NAGs) in International Relations Theory (Belgin San-Akca)
The Age-Structural Theory of State Behavior (Richard Cincotta)
The Empirical Promise of Game Theory (Alexandre Debs)
The Latin American Puzzles for the Study of International Relations (David R. Mares)
The Political Economy of Monetary Policy (Cristina Bodea)
Understanding Government Behavior during Armed Conflict (Cyanne E. Loyle)
Veto Player Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis (Kai Oppermann, Klaus Brummer)
War Making and the Building of State Capacity: Expanding the Bivariate Relationship (Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson)
July 2017
Arms Buildups and the Use of Military Force (David F. Mitchell, Jeffrey Pickering)
Beliefs and Foreign Policy Decision Making (Mark Schafer, Gary Smith)
Climate Change in Foreign Policy (Amy Below)
Constitution-Making in Comparative Perspective (Gabriel L. Negretto)
Constructing a General Model Accounting for Interstate Rivalry Termination (William R. Thompson)
Democratization and Conflict (Ömer Faruk Örsün, Reşat Bayer, Michael Bernhard)
Do We Have Too Much Theory in International Relations or Do We Need Less: Waltz was Wrong, Tetlock was Right (Michael D. Ward)
Economic Sanction as Foreign Policy (Yoshiharu Kobayashi)
Environmental Policy and Foreign Policy (John Barkdull)
Forgiveness and Ressentiment in the Age of Traumas (Nicolas Demertzis)
Fractionalization and Civil War (Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham)
Friendship and Foreign Policy (Felix Berenskoetter, Yuri van Hoef)
Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Unipolarity: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Hegemonic Order Studies (Carla Norrlof)
Historiography of Foreign Policy Analysis (Andreas Fahrmeir)
Infectious Disease as a Foreign Policy Threat (Rebecca Katz, Erin Sorrell, Claire Standley)
Intersectionality and Political Ambition (Shauna Lani Shames)
Long Cycles and World-Systems Theoretical Research Programs (Christopher Chase-Dunn, Hiroko Inoue)
New Public Management (Per Lægreid)
Nuclear Weapons and International Conflict: Theories and Empirical Evidence (Daniel S. Geller)
Path Dependency in Foreign Policy (Anika C. Leithner, Kyle M. Libby)
Population Aging and International Conflict (Mark L. Haas)
Populism in Foreign Policy (Angelos Chryssogelos)
Public Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (Atsushi Tago)
Religion in Foreign Policy (Jeffrey Haynes)
Searching for Middle Powers (Laura Neack)
Special Relationships in Foreign Policy (Sebastian Harnisch)
Systemic Leadership, Energy Considerations, and the Leadership Long-Cycle Perspective (William R. Thompson, Leila Zakhirova)
The Concept of Deterrence and Deterrence Theory (Patrick M. Morgan)
The First Wave of Foreign Policy Analysis (Valerie Hudson)
The Role of Reparations in the Transition from Violence to Peace (Peter J. Dixon)
The Steps to War: Theory and Evidence (Andrew P. Owsiak)
The Territorial Peace: A Research Program (Douglas M. Gibler)
The Theory of Lateral Pressure: Highlights of Quantification and Empirical Analysis (Nazli Choucri, Gaurav Agarwal)
Theories of Interstate Peace (Paul F. Diehl, Gary Goertz)
Use of Force in Foreign Policy (Stephen L. Quackenbush, Thomas R. Guarrieri)
Women's Anti-Mining Activism and Development (Katy Jenkins)
June 2017
American Grand Strategy and Political Economy Theory (Kevin Narizny)
Civil War from a Transnational Perspective (Kristian Skrede Gleditsch)
Clarifying Causal Mechanisms in International Relations (Patrick James)
Conflict, Regions, and Regional Hierarchies (Thomas J. Volgy, Kelly Marie Gordell, Paul Bezerra, Jon Patrick Rhamey, Jr.)
Constitutional Law (Axel Tschentscher)
Diffusion in International Politics (Alex Braithwaite, Sangmi Jeong)
Discourse in Foreign Policy (Charles G. Ripley)
Domestic Role Contestation and Foreign Policy (Cristian Cantir, Juliet Kaarbo)
Empires Versus States (Josep M. Colomer)
Empirical Knowledge on Foreign Military Intervention (Jeffrey Pickering, David F. Mitchell)
Gender and Foreign Policy (Alexis Leanna Henshaw)
Gender, Politics, and Corruption (Helena Stensöta Olofsdotter, Lena Wängnerud)
International Norm Change (Wayne Sandholtz)
International Norms and Foreign Policy (Vaughn Shannon)
Ireland and the European Union (Ben Tonra)
Natural Resources, Climate Change, and Conflict (Vally Koubi, Gabriele Spilker)
Peace, War, Theory, and Evidence in East Asia (Benjamin E. Goldsmith)
Power Shifts and War (Mark Souva)
Rediscovering Reputation Through Theory and Evidence (Mark J. C. Crescenzi, Bailee Donahue)
Soft Balancing (Huiyun Feng, Kai He)
The Demobilization of Protest Campaigns (Tijen Demirel-Pegg)
The European Union Space Policy (Emmanuel Sigalas)
The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior (Ekim Arbatli, Cemal Eren Arbatli)
The Poliheuristic Theory of Political Decision-Making (Alex Mintz, Steven B. Redd, Eldad Tal-Shir)
The Selectorate Theory and International Politics (Randolph M. Siverson, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita)
Theories of International Norm Contestation: Structure and Outcomes (Jeffrey S. Lantis)
Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis (Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Patrick A. Mello)
What Do We Know About Global Financial Crises? Putting IPE and Economics in Conversation (Michael Lee)
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)
March 2017
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)
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)
Social and Political Power (Keith Dowding)
The Foreign Policy Implications of Financial Crises (Ronja Kempin), summary
Transitional Justice During Armed Conflict (Cyanne E. Loyle)
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