Thoroughly revised edition of an essential text, incorporating a wealth of new material on
American foreign policy since 9/11. The second edition of this concise masterwork includes …

In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the
course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 …

The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign
policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest …

Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principal-agent model in which
states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates …

The recent emergence of a new 'critical geopolitics' has opened up traditional geopolitical
texts for thorough interpretation. Yet there is little work which contextualizes traditional, elite …

A rediscovery of the long-forgotten republican version of liberal political theory has arresting
implications for the theory and practice of international relations. Republican liberalism has …

In 1950, the US military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care
system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same …

Reputation has long been considered central to international relations, but unobservability,
strategic selection, and endogeneity have handicapped quantitative research. A rare source …

To what extent are ethnic identity groups able to influence US foreign policy toward their
ancestral homelands? Existing research has resulted in the enumeration of an extensive list …

Although it is widely acknowledged that economic interests influence the politics of trade
policy, most research on international relations treats security issues differently. Do …