Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) constitute the most rapidly growing form of trade
liberalization in the global economy. In contrast to, for example, the World Trade …

How does the way states finance wars affect public support for conflict? Most existing
research has focused on costs as casualties rather than financial burdens, and arguments …

This study used an experiment to examine whether—and if so, how—national interest
frames in media coverage influence public opinion about world affairs. Compared to …

Just war thinking and realism are commonly presumed to be in opposition. If realists are
seen as war-mongering pragmatists, just war thinkers are seen as naïve at best and …

How do populations facing external aggression view the costs and benefits of self‐defense?
In Western countries, war support has been shown to follow cost–benefit calculations …

This book focuses on the relationship established between China, the world's second
largest economy, and Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter. Due to Saudi Arabia's …

Recent literature on the use of soft balancing to counter the hegemony of the United States
has focused primarily on middle powers in Europe and rising powers such as China. But …

Abstract The United States has helped create and lead many international organizations
(IOs). Yet in the last six years, the US announced its withdrawal from several IOs including …

International relations scholars have found that multilateral approval increases public
support for the use of military force and have developed competing explanations for this …

This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely
on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which …