What drives nations to the brink of war—and what pulls them back? In Crises, War, and Diplomacy, published by Cambridge University Press, Professors John A. Vasquez and Andrew Owsiak tackle these
Jan 2025
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
When do attempts to control emerging technologies of warfare through multilateral agreements produce hollow agreements? This article contends that prospects for multilateral restrictions on new weapons technologies depend on how
Jul 2024
Foreign Policy and Public Support for War: New Experimental Evidence
This paper investigates how foreign policy decisions shape US public support for military intervention on behalf of a state that is under attack. In particular, we consider two key questions.
May 2024
Budgeting for the human-made disaster of war: US aid to Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is a man-made disaster. The USA engaged in both ex ante and ex post budgeting to support Ukraine. The authors examined the scholarly literature related to budgeting for disasters,
May 2024
Depoliticizing rebels: Government use of civilian trials during armed conflict
During armed conflict, incumbents predominantly use military courts to prosecute enemy combatants. However, in some cases, incumbents employ domestic civilian trials. Engaging the civilian judiciary to prosecute rebels is puzzling.
Jan 2024
Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence
For decades, scholars have asserted that gender matters when it comes to domestic and international politics and that gender equality means more than the rights and inclusion of women in
Oct 2023
Introducing ViNSAR: Dyadic Data on Violent Non-State Actor Rivalry
A growing line of research examines causes and consequences of militant group competition. However, empirical work on these topics has limitations. Most quantitative research uses relatively rough proxies for competition,
Mar 2023
Budgeting for the human-made disaster of war: US aid to Ukraine
Why do militant groups turn on each other? This behavior is somewhat puzzling, since such groups are often on the same side of a conflict. A growing body of literature
Mar 2023
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset
Contemporary studies of civil conflict focus heavily on combatant treatment of civilians. Research on human rights (HR) abuses committed by states has benefitted from several widely available datasets on state
Dec 2022
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space
Space capabilities are critical to the global economy, military power, and daily life. For example, the United States’ Global Positioning System enables everything from withdrawing cash from ATM machines to
