Two studies question whether economic interdependence promotes peace, arguing that
previous research has not adequately considered the endogeneity of trade. Using …

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years.
But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't …

Competing theories argue, respectively, that more trade reduces, increases, or does not
affect interstate military conflict. We offer a new general theory on how trade affects conflict …

Studies of the trade-conflict relationship typically emphasize dyadic over multilateral trade,
ignoring the large-scale effects of trade integration. Openness, a common measure of …

The security externalities of globalization and capitalism continue to play an influential role
in peace research. Typical contributions to these interrelated areas of scientific inquiry …

The connection between Russia and European political parties has been in the scholarly
and popular spotlight recently. While scholars focus on the connection between the far right …

Why do states trade with their enemies during war? States make deliberate choices when
setting their wartime commercial policies, and tailoring policies to match the type of war the …

Pourquoi les pays occidentaux versent-ils davantage d'aide au développement aux
autocraties qu'aux démocraties? Pourquoi le Danemark réussit-il à exercer une influence …

The vast majority of the extant literature on trade and conflict focuses on bilateral trade to
determine whether commerce has a pacifying effect upon pairs of states. We argue that this …

This paper examines whether the recent trade war between the US and China would lead to
a great power war. In so doing, we rely on two theoretical frameworks, mercantilism and …