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A recent wave of scholarly literature has argued forcibly that the European Union’s European Security and Defence … Policy (ESDP) represents an attempt on the part of the EU to “balance†against the United States. According to such … fundamentally misunderstood ESDP. Finally, it illustrates how such misinterpretations result from a failure to appreciate the …
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Realists argue that relative gains concerns make cooperation more difficult than liberal institutionalists expect. In response, Duncan Snidal has argued that when the number of states increases, the problem of relative gains concerns is generally attenuated. The author contends that current...
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Fears of rogue states, withdrawal of cold war-era security guarantees, a falling technological threshold, and … availability to terrorist organizations ensure that nuclear weapons proliferation remains a central security issue and that … associated with the level of economic development, the external threat environment, lack of great-power security guarantees, and …
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conditionality of nuclear weapons possession based on the presence of a nuclear weapons program. We find that security concerns and … technological capabilities are important determinants of whether states form nuclear weapons programs, while security concerns …
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security. Yet armed government personnel can be deployed to repress and destroy segments of the public. We identify conditions … under which an executive is more likely to use security forces for private-interest killing rather than public protection …. We hypothesize that unconstrained leaders are more likely to use their putative security forces to initiate genocide and …
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This article applies an earlier analysis of interdependent security issues to a general class of problems involving … actions of others because of the negative externalities created by not investing in protection. Using airline security as an … illustrative example, the authors show that any individual airline will be less likely to invest in security measures as more firms …
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This article considers the way in which the likelihood of being observed by others affects a state’s conflict behavior. The analysis examines the effect of potential observation on the probability that a dispute will escalate to violence as well as the duration of war and peace. To...
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measures, and trade; (2) it delivers an original strategy to identify empirically the effect of counterterrorism security … States to test further the hypothesis that terrorism is affecting trade through the security channel. Our results suggest … that counterterrorism security measures matter for US imports. The level of the impact is up to three times higher when the …
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How best to classify event counts of directed dyadic foreign policy behavior and how best to model them are points of disagreement among researchers. Should such series be modeled as unit roots ("perfect" memory) or as stationary ("short" memory)? It is demonstrated that the dichotomous choice...
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The poliheuristic theory of decision (PH) is placed in its proper historical context through a brief diachronic overview of the evolution of the foreign policy decision-making tradition from Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to the present. The PH program is examined and contextualized in synchronic...
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