This paper examines the development of general government finance and employment within fifteen industrialized democracies during the post-World War II era. Annual time series, extending, where possible, from 1950 through 1988, are analyzed (as well as detailed in the appendix to the paper)....

This paper describes a project focused on the theoretical value of realism to the study of international relations. A large number of the primary assumptions and propositions within realism are detailed and evaluated in light of results drawn from studies using a simulation model of a multistate...

"Realist" and "Idealist" prescriptions for the management of power in a multistate system are described and their implications for system preservation and state survival are examined. The examination of these competing or alternative foreign policy styles is carried out through an experimental...