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The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020 Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lauren L. Ferry, Alexandra O. Zeitz
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Cyber scares and prophylactic policies: Cross-national evidence on the effect of cyberattacks on public support for surveillance Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Amelia C Arsenault, Sarah E Kreps, Keren LG Snider, Daphna Canetti
While conventional terrorism has long been associated with enhanced support for surveillance, scholars have not determined whether variation in the type and outcome of terror attacks, including those emanating from cyberspace, influences public support for these policies. Further, existing studies typically examine public opinion in a single country, thereby failing to investigate cross-national trends
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How Institution-Building Shapes Great Power Alignment: An Institutional Perspective on the China–Russia Partnership The Chinese Journal of International Politics (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Björn Alexander Düben
Sino-Russian relations have thrived in the post–Cold War era. While the relationship has attracted ample academic attention, many of the underlying factors contributing to the bilateral rapprochement over the past three decades remain un(der)explored. This article examines the role played by one of the factors involved in this process: the development of institutional links between the two states.
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Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Deepak Nair
The concept of habitus is a centerpiece of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology and is among the most popular conceptual imports into the Bourdieu-inspired “practice turn” in International Relations (IR). There have, however, been recurrent questions whether IR work using habitus and Bourdieu mainly “re-describe in different language” what scholars already know about world politics. This article argues
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The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020 International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Felix S Bethke, Felix Haass, Holger Niemann
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the United Nations' most powerful institutional body, charged with the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.” The main instrument through which the Council asserts this power is its resolutions, specifically by using resolution text to attribute responsibility. The UNSC uses responsibility language to assign tasks
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Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 J C Sharman
Four centuries of precolonial diplomatic, economic, and military African–European relations have been neglected in international relations. Refuting common presumptions about European dominance, before, during, and after the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade, African rulers and merchants were generally in a position of equality or superiority in their relations with Europeans. Contrary to expectations
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Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Abigail S Post, Todd S Sechser
Theories of crisis bargaining suggest that costly signals can enhance the credibility of one’s coercive threats. In particular, engaging in conspicuous military mobilizations or demonstrations of force are thought to communicate one’s resolve in a crisis. Yet, there is disagreement about why this might be the case. One set of theories emphasizes the hand-tying political and reputational effects of
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Effective climate clubs require ambition, leverage and insulation: Theorizing issue linkage in climate change and trade Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sam S. Rowan
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The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Abstract While international historians and policy practitioners regularly highlight the utility of multilateral diplomacy as a quintessential “strategy of the weak,” International Relations (IR) scholars have generally downplayed the impact of diplomatic choices. The tools within IR theory to assess the impact of diplomacy remain underdeveloped, contributing to an inability to account for a highly
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The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ramaa Vasudevan
This paper investigates how the concrete operation of the gold-exchange standard in colonial India imposed a process of financial subordination embedding colonial India in the currency hierarchy of...
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The Diplomacy of Whataboutism and US Foreign Policy Attitudes International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wilfred M. Chow, Dov H. Levin
Does whataboutism work in global affairs? When states face international criticism, they often respond with whataboutism: accusing their critics of similar faults. Despite its prevalence in policy discussions, whataboutism remains an understudied influence strategy. This study investigates how states use whataboutism to shape American public opinion across various international issues. We find, using
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Courting Civilians During Conflict: Evidence from Taliban Judges in Afghanistan International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Donald Grasse, Renard Sexton, Austin Wright
Rebels regularly provide public services, especially legal services, but the consequences of such programs are unclear. We argue that rebel courts can boost civilian support for insurgency and augment attack capacity by increasing the legitimacy of the rebellion, creating a vested interest in rebel rule, or enabling rebel coercion of the civilian population. We study the impact of the Taliban's judiciary
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Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Lou Pingeot, Vincent Pouliot
Why are some practices available to some actors in world politics, but not to others? In this theory note, we develop a theory of agency as positionally distributed: In global politics, the action potentials of groups and individuals vary depending on their location in the macrostructures inherited from common histories of colonial domination and exploitation. We contribute to the understanding of
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Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Heather-Leigh Ba, Ömer Faruk Şen
While still in their nascent stages, cryptocurrencies have the potential to reshape the international political economy by hastening the end of US dollar hegemony and reducing the US’s coercive fin...
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Women, political violence and economics Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Mario Ferrero
The participation of women in armed insurgencies calls into question a widespread belief that women are inherently more peace loving than men on account of their hard-wired caring disposition. To explain why women engage in political violence, existing research either ignores the fundamental collective action problem involved because of motivations focused on the value of the cause, or looks for selective
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A Feminist Critique of International Practices International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Alice Chessé, Maïka Sondarjee
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies’ concepts from “international practice theories” (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners’
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The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jeffrey Ding
How do technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers? Scholars have long observed that major technological breakthroughs disrupt economic power balances, yet they rarely investigate how this process occurs. Existing studies establish that a nation’s success in adapting to revolutionary technologies is determined by the fit between its institutions and the demands of these technologies
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Tools of regime stability: the political economy of sovereign wealth funds in Gulf rentier states Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alexis Montambault Trudelle
Why have Gulf resource-dependent countries transformed the role of their sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from passive global investors to ubiquitous drivers of economic development? How does this rol...
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Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Enzo Nussio, Govinda Clayton
This article introduces the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset. Lynching is a surprisingly prevalent form of collective violence, but the systematic study of this phenomenon has previously been hampered by a lack of cross-national event data. The LYLA data covers reported lynching incidents across Latin America between 2010 and 2019. In total, it includes 2818 lynching events in 18 countries
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Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jordan Becker, Seth Benson, J Paul Dunne, Edmund Malesky
Theoretical and empirical research on causes and consequences of defense spending is plentiful. Most of this research uses ‘top line’ defense spending data, either as a share of GDP or as a raw monetary figure. Empirical research has been limited, however, by the ‘blunt’ nature of this data, which does not help to explain what countries are spending on. We introduce a dataset that provides information
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How Expert Committees Become Group Agents: Self-Legitimation in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Monika Heupel, Marlene Joger
The UN human rights treaty bodies—groups of experts tasked with monitoring how states implement international human rights conventions—are increasingly portrayed as powerful collective entities with agency. This article focuses on one mechanism that helps collectives of individuals become group agents, namely internal self-legitimation. By internal self-legitimation, we mean practices such as narratives
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International constitutional advising: Introducing a new dataset Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hanna Lerner, David Futscher Pereira, Nina Schlager
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Navigating Anxiety: International Politics, Identity Narratives, and Everyday Defense Mechanisms International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anne-Marie Houde
How do individuals navigate international politics and mitigate the anxieties it elicits in the everyday? Giddensian literature on ontological security suggests that (collective) internalized routines and narratives provide a sense of certainty and stability that enable individuals to “go on” with their daily lives. This article adopts a Kleinian psychoanalytical approach to show that when faced with
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The power of the “weak” and international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, Emily Jones, Claas Mertens, Karolina Milewicz
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The Supply and Demand of Rebel Governance International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Adrian Florea, Romain Malejacq
A recent wave of civil conflict scholarship examines rebel governance, the process through which insurgent groups organize local affairs in areas under their control. While current research predominantly focuses on the supply side of rebel governance, the attention given to the demand side has been relatively limited. In this study, we take stock of recent scholarship on the dynamic relationship between
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Populist Foreign Policy: Mapping the Developing Research Program on Populism in International Relations International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Daniel F Wajner, Philip Giurlando
This article reviews one of the expanding research programs in international relations (IR): the study of populist foreign policy (PFP). Recent years have witnessed a significant proliferation of IR scholars researching the nexus between the global rise of populism and their foreign policies across different countries, regions, and sub-fields. However, scientific progress at such stage of this research
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Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jelena Vićić, Erik Gartzke
Russia’s cyber-enabled influence operations (CEIO) have garnered significant public, academic and policy interest. 126 million Americans were reportedly exposed to Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 US election on Facebook. Indeed, to the extent that such efforts shape political outcomes, they may prove far more consequential than other, more flamboyant forms of cyber conflict. Importantly, CEIOs
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Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Pelin Kılınçarslan
This paper focuses on the impact of social reproduction patterns on borrowing experiences in everyday life, linking two lines of research within feminist and critical International Political Econom...
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Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Andrew Lugg
How do intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) evolve? Cooperation through IGOs is difficult to maintain, as membership dynamics change dramatically over time, leading to dissatisfaction with the status quo. This paper argues that IGO members states create new affiliated bodies, which I call linked intergovernmental organizations (LIGOs), to “re-contract” their cooperation. This helps IGOs adapt to
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The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rafael Mesquita
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Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Nadiya Kostyuk
Understanding the diffusion of military capabilities is a central issue in international relations. Despite this, only a few works attempt to explain this phenomenon, focusing on threats. This article explains why threats alone cannot account for cybercapacity-development diffusion and introduces a more consistent explanation: the role of alliances. Allies with cybercapacity help partner-countries
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The effects of state presence on the mental mapping of security: Evidence from an experiment in Kashmir Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Yelena Biberman, Christopher B Mann
What is the relationship between governance and security? What impact, if any, does state presence have on civilians’ perceptions of security in militarized conflict zones? The existing literature suggests that government control over a restive region means order and security for the local population. We propose a ‘mental mapping’ framework for the relationship between state presence and security perceptions
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Election violence prevention during democratic transitions: A field experiment with youth and police in Liberia Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Lindsey Pruett, Alex Dyzenhaus, Sabrina Karim, Dao Freeman
During highly uncertain, post-conflict elections, police officers and youth-wing party activists often engage in low-intensity electoral violence, which cannot be readily explained by national-level, institutional, elite-level strategic incentives for violence. Responding to calls to examine ‘non-strategic’ election violence, this article examines both the key actors most likely to perpetrate violence
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A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Fieldwork: Centering Community, Reflexivity, and Loving Accountability International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Alba Rosa Boer Cueva, Keshab Giri, Caitlin Hamilton, Laura J Shepherd
International studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from anthropology, peace and conflict studies, geography, and other disciplines to craft a thoughtful set of reflections and considerations for researchers to take with them “into the field” when they embark on “fieldwork.” In this essay, we map out a history of critical approaches to fieldwork, starting with the encounters that initially
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How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Benjamin Jensen, Brandon Valeriano, Sam Whitt
Cyber operations ranging from deception and espionage to disruption and high-end degradation have become a central feature of modern statecraft in the digital age, yet we lack a clear understanding of how decision-makers employ and respond to cyber operations in times of crisis. Our research provides theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidence for understanding how decision-makers react to cyber
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Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Roxanna Sjöstedt, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Anders Themnér, Henrik Persson
Across the world, so-called warlord democrats (WDs) – former military or political leaders of armed groups who subsequently enter formal electoral politics – strongly influence the dynamics and trajectory of post-civil war politics. However, scholarship on war-to-peace transitions and post-conflict politics have often failed to pay attention to the agency of these important actors. This article rectifies
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Measuring Arms: Introducing the Global Military Spending Dataset Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Miriam Barnum, Christopher J. Fariss, Jonathan N. Markowitz, Gaea Morales
Military spending data measure key international relations concepts such as balancing, arms races, the distribution of power, and the severity of military burdens. Unfortunately, missing values and measurement error threaten the validity of existing findings. Addressing this challenge, we introduce the Global Military Spending Dataset (GMSD). GMSD collates new and existing expenditure variables from
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The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Elizabeth Meehan
When does business support corporate transparency laws, and how do they succeed despite opposition from other powerful business groups? Existing research converges on a common causal pathway: Crise...
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How the process of discovering cyberattacks biases our understanding of cybersecurity Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Harry Oppenheimer
Social scientists do not directly study cyberattacks; they draw inferences from attack reports that are public and visible. Like human rights violations or war casualties, there are missing cyberattacks that researchers have not observed. The existing approach is to either ignore missing data and assume they do not exist or argue that reported attacks accurately represent the missing events. This article
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A lost variation found: negotiations and research on international cooperation Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Huei-Jyun Ye
International cooperation occurs after long periods of negotiation, but not every negotiation ends in cooperation outcomes. To date, International Political Economy (IPE) literature has not fully e...
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Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Fabian Pape, Charlotte Rommerskirchen
Scholarship on sovereign debt emphasizes the importance of central banks in backstopping markets, but less attention has been devoted to the interactions of debt management offices with private fin...
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Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sedef A. Topal
Why do some rebel organizations form a united front when others confine themselves to a loose partnership? Existing research on rebel movements reveals that insurgents should quickly leave cooperative agreements if doing so will provide particular advantages in a post-conflict setting. Still, rebel groups may build diverse alliances, from joint attacks to shared command structures. If rebels are indeed
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Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tyler Jost, Joshua D. Kertzer, Eric Min, Robert Schub
Do advisers affect foreign policy and, if so, how? Recent scholarship on elite decision making prioritizes leaders and the institutions that surround them, rather than the dispositions of advisers themselves. We argue that despite the hierarchical nature of foreign policy decision making, advisers’ predispositions regarding the use of force shape state behavior through the counsel advisers provide
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Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Fabio Bulfone
The privatization of public utilities marked a turning point in European capitalism, reshaping the relationship between the public and private spheres of the economy. However, the extent of state d...
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The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Kiran Stallone, Julia Margaret Zulver
This article uses the case of Colombia to evaluate the gendered risks of social leadership and human rights activism in territories governed by armed groups. Existing data on Colombian human rights and social leader deaths reveals that men leaders are being killed at a much higher rate than women social leaders. In this article, we delve deeper into gendered patterns of violence against men and women
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Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kate Bedford
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has produced three research reports on gender equality and ride-hailing, in collaboration with ride-hailing companies. This article examines these...
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Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 William Akoto
Traditional conceptions of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage suggest that countries with different product profiles should experience high levels of espionage between them. However, this is not what we observe empirically. Incidence of economic espionage tends to be prevalent between countries with similar product and manufacturing profiles. This suggests that we may be missing critical parts
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Diplomatic Statements and the Strategic Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Gabriella Levy, Rebecca Dudley, Chong Chen, David A. Siegel
How does third-party diplomatic and material support affect rebel groups’ use of terrorism in civil wars? We argue via a game-theoretic model that diplomatic support prompts prospective shifts in rebel tactics, from civilian to military targets, in anticipation of material support, while material support alters the cost structure of attacks, leading to the same tactical shift. We empirically test the
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To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Daniel Verdier
Given high costs of negotiating formal international institutions, states are widely expected to adapt, reform, and repurpose existing institutions rather than create new ones. Nevertheless, during the past century some 60 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have been directly replaced by a legal successor. Why do states sometimes dissolve an existing IGO only to replace it with a new one that takes
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The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Owen R. Brown
While there is increasing recognition of the role of race in shaping global politics, the extent to which the construction and operation of international order is entangled with race remains underexplored. In this article, I argue for the centrality of race and racialization in understanding the constitution of international order by theorizing the constitutive connections between race and international
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War on Aisle 5: Casualties, National Identity, and Consumer Behavior Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Benjamin Helms, Sonal S. Pandya, Rajkumar Venkatesan
A growing body of research argues that external threats from the international system strengthen ethnocentrism and authoritarianism, personal values anchored in national identity. We evaluate a necessary implication of this argument, that these shifting values drive change in broader social behaviors. Our focus is revealed value change in a non-political setting: American consumers’ choice of supermarket
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The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 David E Banks
This paper proposes a comprehensive research program for determining the epistemological foundations of analytic wargaming. Wargaming has been used in military, government, and private sectors for decades, with tens of millions of dollars spent annually on it. In light of the changing strategic circumstances of the twenty-first century, it has only become more popular. However, the epistemological
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Gendering hawkishness in the war room: Evidence from Pakistani politicians Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Fahd Humayun
Can representation in foreign policy deliberations – in particular, increased female representation – impact deliberators’ support for interstate conflict resolution? While existing work on gender representation in IR suggests that increased female representation should moderate intragroup hawkishness, making conflict resolution more viable, I offer empirical evidence that qualifies this idea, based
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Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Johannes Karreth, Jaroslav Tir, Jason Quinn, Madhav Joshi
Recent research shows that comprehensive peace agreements (CPAs) are effective in ending civil wars and improving post-conflict conditions, but CPAs emerge in only a fraction of civil wars. This study provides systematic evidence about the origins of CPAs and the role of international actors in facilitating their signing. We argue that mediation is more likely to be successful and that CPAs are more
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RIPE 2023 diversity statement Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jennifer Bair, Juanita Elias, Aida A. Hozić, Alison Johnston, Seçkin Köstem, Manuela Moschella, Hongying Wang, Kevin L. Young
Published in Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Christos Makridis, Lennart Maschmeyer, Max Smeets
What determines media coverage on cyber conflict (CC)? Media bias fostering misperception is a well-established problem in conflict reporting. Because of the secrecy and complexity surrounding cyber operations (COs), where most data moreover come from marketing publications by private sector firms, this problem is likely to be especially pronounced in reporting on cyber threats. Because media reporting
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Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Thomas Zeitzoff, Grace Gold
Much of the focus of cyber conflict has been on interstate conflict. This article focuses on two interrelated questions in the important but neglected area of cyber contentious politics. First, how does the public feel about the use of different eco tactics including cyber-based tactics carried out by activists involved in the radical environmental movement, a movement that uses protest and sabotage
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Cyberattacks and public opinion – The effect of uncertainty in guiding preferences Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Eric Jardine, Nathaniel Porter, Ryan Shandler
When it comes to cybersecurity incidents – public opinion matters. But how do voters form opinions in the aftermath of cyberattacks that are shrouded in ambiguity? How do people account for the uncertainty inherent in cyberspace to forge preferences following attacks? This article seeks to answer these questions by introducing an uncertainty threshold mechanism predicting the level of attributional
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Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sigrid Weber
How do armed actors respond to population movements during civil wars? I argue that displacement alters local balances of control between territorial rulers and challengers. Local territorial rulers have incentives to govern violently if displaced persons perceived as members of opposing loyalty groups move into their territories and challengers spoil local governance by inflicting harm on civilians
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Human rights violations and public support for sanctions Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Barış Arı, Burak Sonmez
Public pressure to take punitive action against human rights violators is often a driving force behind international sanctions. However, we know little about the way in which public support is shaped by varying types of abuse, the costs and effectiveness of sanctions and the differential harm they inflict upon the target population and leadership. Our study specifically addresses this gap by unpicking