Impact of Domestic Politics and Institutions on International Relations

Books

World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions (with Jeffry Frieden and David Lake). New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Journal Articles

“The Enforcement Problem in Coercive Bargaining: Interstate Conflict over Rebel Support in Civil Wars,” International Organization, forthcoming.

“Fighting at Home, Fighting Abroad: How Civil Wars Lead to International Disputes” (with Kristian Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan), Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (August 2008), pp. 479-506.

“Learning about Learning: A Response to Wand” (with Jeffrey B. Lewis), Political Analysis 13 (Winter 2006), pp. 121-29.

“The Politics of Risking Peace: Do Hawks or Doves Deliver the Olive Branch?” International Organization 59 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-38.

“Democracy, Learning, and Conflict Resolution,” The Waseda Journal of Political Science and Economics 359 (April 2005), pp. 35-62.

 “Revealing Preferences: Empirical Estimation of a Crisis Bargaining Game with Incomplete Information” (with Jeffrey B. Lewis), Political Analysis 11 (Fall 2003), pp. 345-67.

“The Democratic Advantage: Institutional Foundations of Financial Power in International Competition” (with Barry R. Weingast), International Organization 57 (Winter 2003), pp. 1-40.

“Looking for Audience Costs,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (Feb. 2001), pp. 32-60.

“Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform?: Contrasting Two Institutional Perspectives on Democracy and War,” International Organization 52 (Spring 1999), pp. 233-66.

“Domestic Opposition and Signaling in International Crises,” American Political Science Review 92 (Dec. 1998), pp. 829-44.

“The Politics of the Political Business Cycle,” British Journal of Political Science 25 (Jan. 1995), pp. 79-99.

Book Chapters

“Tying Hands and Washing Hands:  The U.S. Congress and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention,” in Daniel Drezner, ed., Locating the Proper Authorities: The Interaction of International and Domestic Institutions (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 105-42. 

“Domestic Political Competition and Transparency in International Crises: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” in Bernard I. Finel and Kristin M. Lord, eds., Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 57-82.

 “Limited Governments, Powerful States” (with Barry R. Weingast), in Randolph Siverson, ed., Strategic Politicians, Institutions, and Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 15-50.

Working Papers

“Estimating State Preferences in International Crises: Promise and Limitations for Fully Structural Estimation” (with Jeffrey B. Lewis) (under revision American Journal of Political Science).

“Could Humphrey Have Gone to China? Party, Reputation, and the Political Costs of Making Peace” (under revision American Journal of Political Science).

“What’s in a Claim?  International Law and the Resolution of Interstate Territorial Disputes,” Stanford University, manuscript, 2009.

“Two Sides of the Same Coin? Exploring the Endogeneity of Civil War and Interstate Disputes” (with Kristian Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan), manuscript, 2009.