The authors investigate the relationship between system structure and the initiation of militarized disputes among Great Powers. The central hypotheses concern the interaction between system uncertainty and the risk propensity of national decision makers. The authors employ a research design...

In this paper we develop a multilateral (k-adic) empirical framework for analyzing the flow of terrorist activity across state borders. Building on Poast's (2010) k-adic framework for analyzing multilateral alliance behavior, we have created a directional k-adic design that allows us to track...

This two volume set presents many of the most important articles on the reciprocal effects of the international system (both its political-economic and political-military attributes) and the domestic political and economic structures of the states that compose that system.

Can the world be made more peaceful through commerce? Empirical studies of the impact of trade on military conflict have yielded conflicting results depending on the specific measures and empirical domains that scholars select for their studies. The article suggests that these varying results...

India's experience with the international computer industry serves as a key test of the “bargaining school” and the “Marxist-dependencia school” on relations between developing countries and multinational enterprises. India changed (and improved) its performance over time in...

The newest liberal institutionalism asserts that, although it accepts a major realist proposition that international anarchy impedes cooperation among states, it can nevertheless affirm the central tenets of the liberal institutionalist tradition that states can achieve cooperation and that...