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The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 Pablo M Pinto, Stephanie J Rickard, James Raymond Vreeland
Does the intervention of an international organization in domestic politics render policy change more popular? While voters may ultimately care only about policy outcomes, the involvement of international actors often seems to lead to resentment. Still, citizens may have greater faith in the wisdom of international actors than in their own government. As others have argued, a well-respected international
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Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Benjamin Daßler, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Martijn Huysmans
Materially powerful states tend to dominate both the creation of international organizations (IOs) as well as subsequent IO policymaking. Materially weak states are nevertheless expected to participate in IOs since it is generally assumed that they will still profit from cooperation and prefer power to be exercised through institutions. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how exactly institutional
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Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Caleb Lucas
How does rebel news affect the way civilians perceive the balance of power during conflict? While media campaigns are a common tactic during conflict for both insurgents and governments, there is very little empirical research that explores their effect on civilians. I argue that these campaigns play an important role in the construction of a rebel group’s reputation during conflict and the perception
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Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Sumitha Narayanan Kutty, Walter C Ladwig III
As a rising India has sought both standing and recognition in the international system, observers have debated whether revisionist or status quo tendencies have characterized the country’s engagement with the outside world since the end of the Cold War. One way to gain insight into such issues is to study the behavior of its apex leaders. Face-to-face diplomacy and high-level visits are an increasingly
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IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Stephen C Nelson, Christopher P Dinkel
Do International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programs increase repression in borrowing countries? We argue that repression worsens when autocratic governments enter conditional lending arrangements with the IMF. Autocracies are likelier than democracies to harshly crackdown during episodes of heightened protest and unrest triggered by IMF-mandated adjustment and structural reform programs. But harsh
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Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Arthur A Goldsmith
This research note introduces new global data on self-coups—rapid moves by sitting executive leaders to “overthrow” their own governments and illegitimately maintain or extend power. Self-coups are distinct from ordinary coups (sudden illegal attempts by other elites to topple the sitting executive) and overlap with incumbent takeovers (incremental quasi-legal steps by the sitting executive to amass
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Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 2004 International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Megan Becker, Jonathan Markowitz, Sarah Orsborn, Isabelle Nazha, Srividya Dasaraju, Lindsay Lauder
What are the causal pathways through which natural resources are linked to civil conflict? Ross evaluates ten causal pathways across thirteen conflicts to offer the most comprehensive answer to date. However, nearly 20 years later, all thirteen conflicts have ended, and more sources are available, motivating the question: Would the findings hold if replicated today? We employ a new explicit standards
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When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Masafumi Fujita
Generalized trust has attracted attention as a non-material disposition that affects risk perception in political and economic international cooperation. However, its effect on public support for free trade or trade agreements has been debated. This debate centers on whether the economic impacts of trade are evident or uncertain to ordinary citizens because generalized trust operates only when trade
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Why settle?: Partisan-based explanation of investor-state dispute outcomes Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Haillie Na-Kyung Lee, Jong Hyun Lee
This paper seeks to explain why some investor-state dispute cases are settled before reaching the ruling stage in democracies, focusing on disputes triggered by regulatory changes made by host government. Our argument is grounded in the domestic politics of the respondent country, specifically the partisan orientation of the incumbent government. When faced with regulatory investor claims, respondent
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The Law Behind Dispute Onset: How Legal Uncertainty Drives Maritime Boundary Disputes Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Umut Yüksel
The making of international law through multilateral conventions and adjudication often leads to periods of legal uncertainty, times in which there are alternative rules and divergent views on how they ought to be applied to particular cases. I argue that legal uncertainty gives states opportunities and incentives to formulate excessive unilateral claims, thus making disputes more likely to arise.
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Voter Intimidation as a Tool of Mobilization or Demobilization? Evidence from West Bengal, India Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-04 Ursula Daxecker, Annekatrin Deglow, Hanne Fjelde
This study presents new theory and evidence on the repertoire of electoral intimidation, suggesting that threats can be used to deter rival party supporters from voting but also to mobilize citizens to vote for a particular party. We expect these strategies to unfold in the same electoral context, but differ in targeting and incidence; while threats to demobilize are concentrated in closely contested
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Commitment ambiguity and ambition in climate pledges Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-03 Vegard Tørstad, Vegard Wiborg
The Paris Agreement on climate change is built around a pledge-and-review system, wherein countries submit nationally determined pledges of mitigation commitments. While the agreement’s flexible design has attracted broad participation, its lenient informational requirements for pledges have also engendered considerable ambiguity in countries’ commitments. What are the implications of commitment ambiguity
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The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Berker Kavasoglu
Why are some autocratic regimes more prone to mass uprisings than others? This article argues that autocratic leaders can mitigate opposition mobilization by strategically appointing opposition leaders to cabinet positions. Drawing on yearly data from autocracies between 1966 and 2020, the article exploits temporal variations in the composition of cabinets and the onset of mass uprisings within autocratic
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Whom to Repress: Tall Poppies, Key Players, and Weakest Links Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Kris De Jaegher
This paper presents a game-theoretic model where dissidents with heterogeneous abilities and motivations contribute to collective action. A regime demotivates dissidents by preemptively increasing their costs of contributing, using a budget that can be spread across them in any way desired. The regime’s optimal targeting strategy is shown to depend on the (technological) degree of complementarity between
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Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Annette Idler, Dáire McGill
How does a state’s marginalization of borderland communities influence their sense of belonging? We argue that, in unstable regions in the Global South, such marginalization reinforces people’s sense of belonging to a transnational community. As we demonstrate, two causal mechanisms account for this process: the marginalization enhances (i) the border’s “disguising” quality that muddies diverse forms
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Environmental displacement and political instability: Evidence from Africa Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Angela Chesler
Does environmental displacement provoke political instability? Though migration has long been considered an intermediary in the causal path between environmental change and political upheaval, the relationship remains theoretically underdeveloped and evidence has been limited. This article examines the impact of displacement caused by sudden-onset natural hazards on disruptive antigovernment events
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Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Slava Jankin, Alexander Baturo, Niheer Dasandi
Every year since 1946, the General Debate has taken place at the beginning of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly session. Representatives from all UN member states deliver an address, discussing the issues that they consider most important in global politics, revealing their governments’ positions, and seeking to persuade other states of their perspectives. The annual UN General Debate statements
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The Role of Pan-African Ideology in Ethnic Power Sharing International Organization (IF 8.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-22 Janina Beiser-McGrath, Sam Erkiletian, Nils W. Metternich
What are the conditions under which governments form more ethnically inclusive coalitions? Previous contributions highlight strategic incentives as well as colonial and precolonial legacies as determinants of ethnically inclusive government coalitions but overlook the impact of political mobilization during the decolonization period. We argue that ideological exposure and commitment to the Pan-African
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Does Local Representation Reduce Self-Determination Conflict? Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Alejandro Corvalan
There is ample evidence that the political exclusion of minorities from state power increases the risk of conflict. Nevertheless, do these same results apply to local representation? I explore this question using the success in mayoral elections of the Chilean Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority in a longstanding conflict against the Chilean state. Combining a novel database on conflict and a surname
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Personalist Regime and Rebel Sponsorship in Civil Conflicts Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Ruixing Cao
Under what conditions do sponsors directly intervene in the target state’s civil conflicts? While previous research on state sponsorship for the rebels tends to focus on how ties between the two can influence their interactions, this article argues that the sponsor is more willing to provide combat support when the target state is under the rule of a personalist regime. Due to a lack of internal constraints
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Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-16 Hannah Smidt, Constantin Ruhe, Sabine Otto
Human rights are a fundamental principle and purpose of the United Nations (UN). Yet, UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) exhibit substantial variation in their ability to engage in human rights activities. While existing research has investigated deployment and mandates, we explain what peacekeepers can actually do on the ground. We argue that the UN Security Council’s permanent member states (the P5)
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Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-16 Andrey Tomashevskiy
The notion of affinity among countries is central in studies of international relations: it plays an important role in research as scholars use measures of affinity to study conflict and cooperation in a variety of contexts. To more effectively measure affinity, I argue that it is necessary to utilize multidimensional data and take into account the network context of international relations. In this
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Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-16 Peyman Asadzade
Why do protests emerge and endure in some localities but not others? This study focuses on urban protests in the city of Tehran, Iran’s capital and largest city, during the 2022 uprising to explain why protests emerged and endured in some neighbourhoods but not others. Using an original geocoded dataset of 339 protest events at the neighbourhood level, I test two competing sets of demographic and spatial
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Cosmopolitan identity, authority, and domestic support of international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 Bernd Schlipphak, Constantin Schäfer, Oliver Treib
What effect does the institutional design of international organizations (IOs) have on their domestic support? In this article, we focus on interactions between citizens’ social identity and institutional characteristics that may have the potential to polarize citizens’ IO attitudes. We argue that citizens’ cosmopolitan identity makes them react in diametrically opposed ways to IO settings on the authority
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Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations International Organization (IF 8.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 David A. Steinberg, Daniel McDowell
This study explores how race impacts the legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Specifically, we examine whether the representation of Black people in IO leadership positions influences perceptions of IO legitimacy among Black and white individuals. To do so, we fielded seven survey experiments in two racially diverse countries, South Africa and the United States, and three experiments in
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Denying the Obvious: Why Do Nominally Covert Actions Avoid Escalation? International Organization (IF 8.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-13 Chase Bloch, Roseanne W. McManus
In 2014, Russia denied that its military was assisting separatists in eastern Ukraine, despite overwhelming evidence. Why do countries bother to deny hostile actions like this even when they are obvious? Scholars have argued that making hostile actions covert can reduce pressure on the target state to escalate. Yet it is not clear whether this claim applies when evidence of responsibility for the action
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De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Alix Ziff, Miriam Barnum, Ashley Abadeer, Jasmine Chu, Nicole Jao, Marie Zaragoza, Benjamin AT Graham
Powersharing institutions are often prescribed to enhance civil peace, democratic survival, and the equitable provision of public services, and these institutions have become more prevalent over time. Nonetheless, the past decade has seen a rise in democratic backsliding and competitive authoritarianism, raising questions about how the relationship between powersharing, democracy, and civil peace may
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Inference with Extremes: Accounting for Extreme Values in Count Regression Models International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 David Randahl, Johan Vegelius
Processes that occasionally, but not always, produce extreme values are notoriously difficult to model, as a small number of extreme observations may have a large impact on the results. Existing methods for handling extreme values are often arbitrary and leave researchers without guidance regarding this problem. In this paper, we propose an extreme value and zero-inflated negative binomial (EVZINB)
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Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism International Studies Review (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Steffen Hertog, Adrian Arellano, Thomas Hegghammer, Gudrun Østby
Does economic deprivation fuel terrorist recruitment? A large empirical literature has explored this question, but the findings remain contradictory and inconclusive. We argue that this is due to inconsistencies in the way deprivation has been defined and measured. This article identifies these deficiencies and provides a roadmap toward more precise measurement of deprivation and consequently toward
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Introducing the Rebels’ Armament Dataset (RAD): Empirical Evidence on Rebel Military Capabilities Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Oliver Pamp, Andreas Mehltretter, Paul Binder, Paul W. Thurner
There is a scarcity of systematic data regarding the military equipment of rebel groups engaged in intrastate conflicts. This empirical gap has impeded the rigorous evaluation of (formal) theories concerning militarized interactions between governments and rebel groups. To address this deficiency, we have developed the Rebels' Armament Dataset (RAD). This dataset provides detailed information on the
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How effective is trade conditionality? Economic coercion in the Generalized System of Preferences Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Michael-David Mangini
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Negotiating with your mouth full: Intergovernmental negotiations between transparency and confidentiality Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Mareike Kleine, Samuel Huntington
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Setting targets: Abatement cost, vulnerability, and the agreement of NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Jordan Becker, Paul Poast, Tim Haesebrouck
Why do countries mutually agree to constraints on their behavior? Why do they comply with such constraints in the absence of enforcement mechanisms? More specifically, why did NATO allies, with disparate geography and perceptions of the international security environment, agree to ‘aim to move towards’ increased defense spending (2% of GDP on defense and 20% of defense budgets on equipment modernization)
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How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Christoph Valentin Steinert, Daniel Kazenwadel
OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model has gained popularity as a powerful tool for problem-solving and information retrieval. However, concerns arise about the reproduction of biases present in the language-specific training data. In this study, we address this issue in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian and Turkish–Kurdish conflicts. Using GPT-3.5, we employed an automated query procedure to inquire
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The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Identity Claims Dataset, 1946-2021 Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Paul R Hensel, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Andrew P Owsiak, Krista E Wiegand
This article introduces the Issue Correlates of War Identity Claims Dataset. An identity claim occurs when two states diplomatically contest the treatment of an ethnic group that both states share. A state that advances such a claim (i.e. the challenger) demands that the other state (i.e. the target) either: (i) change its domestic treatment of the group, (ii) grant the group independence, or (iii)
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Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Matias Spektor, Marcos Ross Fernandes, Lucas de Oliveira Paes, João Victor Dalla Pola, Vitor Loureiro Sion
Transnational surveillance is a powerful tool in the arsenal of autocrats the world over. Despite its pervasive use in extraterritorial coercion, the systematic study of surveillance of regime opponents beyond national borders remains underdeveloped in political science, primarily due to limited data availability. To help fill this gap, we constructed the Latin American Transnational Surveillance dataset
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How negative institutional power moderates contestation: Explaining dissatisfied powers’ strategies towards international institutions Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Benjamin Daßler, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Andreas Kruck
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Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Jean-Pierre Murray
Studies of migration-related security concerns have focused on the emergence of these concerns through securitization or their potential dissolution through desecuritization. This paper challenges the conventional view of these processes—securitization and desecuritization—as oppositional and mutually exclusive. Instead, it argues that they are imbricated in complex ways in an arena of contestation
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Economic origins of border fortifications Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Afiq bin Oslan
Why do contemporary states fortify their borders? Modern military advancements have made such fortifications obsolete for security, yet scholars have offered no satisfactory alternative theory. I propose a theory of fortifications with economic motivations using a game-theoretic model where states compete to extract wealth over a shared population around a border. Such competition generates inefficiency
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Who uses Internet propaganda in civil wars and why? Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Barbara F Walter, Gregoire Phillips
This article explores who is likely to benefit from Internet propaganda in civil wars. It argues that the global reach of the Internet, its lack of regulation and its filtering tools are more likely to help transnational rebel groups with external support and radical aims than local groups with home-grown support and moderate aims. The paper then introduces a new dataset on rebel propaganda that includes
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Do apologies promote the reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a video experiment in Colombia Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Gustav Agneman, Lisa Strömbom, Angelika Rettberg
Transitional justice practices frequently involve public apologies where former combatants confess their wrongdoings and ask for forgiveness, with the underlying assumption that such displays facilitate the reintegration of ex-combatants into society. However, little is known about the public response to ex-combatant apologies. In this article, we investigate the causal effect of an armed group apology
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Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19 Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano
This paper analyses how pre-pandemic levels of inequality across US counties have shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests. The results from difference-in-differences and instrumental variable models using high-frequency weekly data show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic increased the incidence of protests, but only in US counties with high levels of
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Contentious politics in the borderlands: How nonviolence and migrant characteristics affect public attitudes Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-25 Pearce Edwards, Daniel Arnon
New political issues and opportunities lead new actors into contentious politics. This article studies one such case: transnational migrants making claims and engaging in collective action when traversing state borders. As global migration flows and accompanying political backlash has grown since the mid-2010s, borders have increasingly become sites of contention between groups of migrants seeking
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Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic International Studies Review (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Luna K C, Megan MacKenzie
The COVID-19 crisis created, and continues to produce, unprecedented challenges globally. Marginalized and racialized families, communities, and nations are experiencing their worst impacts, and in particular, women and girls are the hardest hit. The most pressing concerns raised by COVID-19 include a surge in gender-based violence, a rise in care burden, the feminization of poverty, and growing unemployment
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When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Niklas Hänze
Can armed conflict amplify the societal impacts and humanitarian consequences of natural hazards? Given that these hazards affect millions of people worldwide and that climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, it is paramount that we advance our understanding of what makes societies vulnerable to these hazards. Existing research has focused mainly
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Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity International Studies Review (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Daniela Lai
The article argues that International Relations, and especially those approaches that are informed by the epistemological and methodological premises of reflexivity, would benefit from a more diversified range of comparative methodologies other than those deriving from the work of J.S. Mill and more recent developments within the neopositivist canon. While discussions of methodology in International
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Why Onset Matters: Warfare, Intensity, and Duration in Civil War Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Benoit Siberdt
Are civil wars shaped by how they start? While existing literature points to the path-dependent nature of conflict, the link between the type of onset and wartime dynamics have been largely overlooked. Building on a recent typology capturing the dynamics of civil war onset (1944–2020), I analyze conflict trajectories, focusing on three macro-level wartime dynamics: warfare, intensity, and duration
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Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Cécile Richetta, Tim Wegenast
Conflicts involving pastoralists have been on the rise in the past two decades in West, Central and East Africa. This article argues that land alienation is a major source of this type of violence. We employ a narrow identification strategy of relevant pastoral conflicts based on the Armed Conflict Location Event Dataset and create a unique indicator of land alienation comprised of three types of land
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Furthering relational approaches to peace Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Morgan Brigg
Relational scholarship is burgeoning across the social sciences and gaining ground in peace and conflict studies. But relationalism is prone to misunderstanding. This article demonstrates that the ‘relational’ is an ontological orientation, with foundational implications for how social scientists know the world, rather than a methodological stance oriented to relationships. It offers a threefold framework
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Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities International Studies Review (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Jutta Bakonyi, May Darwich
In a world of accelerated movements, this article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. We first show that the International Relations (IR) discipline has relegated infrastructures to the background of their studies and treated them as passive tools despite their forcible role in the establishment of the modern state system. By adopting a sociological definition of “the international
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The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Per F. Andersson, Jan Teorell
This paper is concerned with state capacity and autocrat survival. We argue that state strength in autocracies increases leader tenure but reduces the stability of the regime itself; stronger autocracies run a higher risk of transitioning to democracy. This trade-off arises as a result of how state capacity affects the behavior of elite challengers. A stronger state reduces the likelihood of the ruler
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Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Manfred Elsig, Gabriele Spilker
For years, scholars in international relations have addressed questions related to regime complexity and its effects. However, there is a lack of understanding of how individuals react to clashes of international law obligations when assessing domestic policies. In this article, we study the extent to which citizens are concerned with compliance and noncompliance with international law when their governments
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Nomads’ Land: Exploring the Social and Political Life of the Nomad Category International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Anthony Howarth, Jaakko Heiskanen, Sina Steglich, Nivi Manchanda, Adib Bencherif
The category of the nomad has gained a newfound salience in recent decades, ranging from public interest in “digital nomadism” to academic debates about “nomadic theory.” Faced with this upsurge of interest in nomadism, this collective discussion brings together five scholars of diverse theoretical and academic backgrounds to investigate the pasts, presents, and possible futures of the nomad category
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Bio/Necropolitical Capture and Evasion on Africa–Europe Migrant Journeys International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Özgün Erdener Topak
This paper draws on fieldwork interviews with migrants who fled their home countries (Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan) and irregularly traveled through Sudan, Sahara, Libya, and the Mediterranean Sea, eventually reaching Europe. It demonstrates how, throughout their journeys, migrants were targeted by various armed groups (particularly non-state) for purposes including recruitment, extortion, ransom, immobilization
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Justice “to Come”? Decolonial Deconstruction, from Postmodern Policymaking to the Black Horizon International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Farai Chipato, David Chandler
This article explores the importance of what we call “decolonial deconstruction” for contemporary global politics and policy discourses and develops a critique of this approach. “Decolonial deconstruction” seeks to keep open policy processes, deconstructing liberal policy goals of peace, democracy, or justice as always “to come”. It emerged through a nexus of postmodern and decolonial framings, well
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“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Håvard Rustad Markussen
This article theorizes smartphone detoxing as a practice of sovereignty. The article begins by arguing that the smartphone enables the exercise of psychopolitical control, a new mode of neoliberal governmentality under which individuals are governed through the algorithmic modification of behavior. Against this background, smartphone detoxing can be seen as a practice of sovereignty in the sense that
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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Bradford Waldie
s How does military experience change individual foreign policy preferences? Prior research on military service focuses on the effects of combat experience on political participation and policy preferences, but combat is not the only military experience that influences attitudes. Living overseas is a common military experience with the potential to shape foreign policy preferences. Using observational
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Populism and the liberal international order: An analysis of UN voting patterns Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Sandra Destradi, Johannes Vüllers
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How to resist the Wall Street Consensus: the maneuverability of a Vietnamese green state within international financial subordination Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-16 Mathias Larsen
Between 2017 and 2021, Vietnam saw the fastest annual proportional increase in renewables ever seen across the world. This was financially supported by the state-owned energy company, Vietnam Elect...
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Productive and Destructive Group Contests: An Experimental Investigation Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Guillaume Cheikbossian, Julie Rosaz
In this study, we experimentally test the theoretical results of a contest game between groups when the value of the prize is fixed and when it is endogenously determined. It can decrease with contest efforts of all groups as in the case of an armed conflict or a lawsuit. The value of the prize can also increase with contest efforts as in the case of a patent race. We also analyze the impact of different