The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead
of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have …

When engaging with other countries, the US government has a number of different policy
instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade, and the use of military …

Expectations that the presidential transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama would
produce a multilateralist turn in American foreign policy have thus far proven misplaced. This …

Recent work finds evidence that partisan calculations, not ideological preferences, drive
congressional decisions on foreign policy. While legislators support the wars launched by …

How is it that internationalism has become the dominant form of statecraft pursued by liberal
states and by international organisations, and yet it has received relatively scant attention in …

How does partisan polarization in the United States affect foreign perceptions of its security
commitments and global leadership? In a survey experiment fielded to 2000 adults in the …

This article examines the extent and patterns of politicisation in the field of military
interventions for the USA after the end of the Cold War. The analysis shows that key votes on …

The attacks of September 11 and the resulting war on terrorism present a puzzle to
conventional explanations of foreign policy bipartisanship. Public anxiety about the …

Explanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of
International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences …

Scholars generally agree that most congressional decision-making behaviour has become
characterized by partisan polarization. One area to which this consensus does not extend …