Building upon the work of Maoz and Russett, Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman, and Morgan and Campbell, the authors evaluate the “democratic peace†phenomenon in an experimental setting. They first introduce the “political incentive†explanation of why democracies don't fight each...

Previous studies of political decision making have used only ''static'' choice sets, where alternatives are ''fixed'' and are a priori known to the decision maker. We assess the affect of a dynamic choice set (new alternatives appear during the decision process) on strategy selection and choice...

This research addresses the question of why some crises between states are resolvedthrough negotiated agreements while others result in continued conflict or escalate to war.The model deviates from previous approaches to the study of conflict management in fourkey ways: 1) management is treated...

The cognitive calculus theory of foreign policy decision making is an attempt to bridge the gap between two research orientations in the international relations literature: outcome validity and process validity. The cognitive calculus theory models the mental calculations of foreign policy...