States, the security sector, and the monopoly of violence: A new database on pro-government militias

SC Carey, NJ Mitchell, W Lowe - Journal of Peace Research, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces the global Pro-Government Militias Database (PGMD). Despite the
devastating record of some pro-government groups, there has been little research on why …

Treaty compliance and violation

B Simmons - Annual Review of Political Science, 2010 - annualreviews.org
International law has enjoyed a recent renaissance as an important subfield of study within
international relations. Two trends are evident in the recent literature. First, the obsession …

Respect for human rights has improved over time: Modeling the changing standard of accountability

CJ Fariss - American Political Science Review, 2014 - cambridge.org
According to indicators of political repression currently used by scholars, human rights
practices have not improved over the past 35 years, despite the spread of human rights …

[图书][B] Violence and restraint in civil war: civilian targeting in the shadow of international law

JA Stanton - 2016 - books.google.com
Media coverage of civil wars often focuses on the most gruesome atrocities and the most
extreme conflicts, which might lead one to think that all civil wars involve massive violence …

The empirical turn in international legal scholarship

G Shaffer, T Ginsburg - American Journal of International Law, 2012 - cambridge.org
There is a new empirical turn in international legal scholarship. Building on decades of
theoretical work in law and social science, a new generation of empirical studies is …

Handbook of international relations

W Carlsnaes, BA Simmons, T Risse - 2012 - torrossa.com
Handbook of international relations Handbook of International Relations Handbook of
International Relations Edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons …

International organizations and institutions

LL Martin, BA Simmons - Handbook of international relations, 2013 - torrossa.com
Background The term international institution has been used over the course of the last few
decades to refer to a broad range of phenomena. In the early postwar years, these words …

The killer robots are here: legal and policy implications

R Crootof - Cardozo L. Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
THE KILLER ROBOTS ARE HERE: LEGAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS Page 1 THE KILLER
ROBOTS ARE HERE: LEGAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS Rebecca Crootoft In little over a …

Atomic aversion: Experimental evidence on taboos, traditions, and the non-use of nuclear weapons

DG Press, SD Sagan, BA Valentino - American Political Science …, 2013 - cambridge.org
How strong are normative prohibitions on state behavior? We examine this question by
analyzing anti-nuclear norms, sometimes called the “nuclear taboo,” using an original …

[图书][B] Electing peace: From civil conflict to political participation

AM Matanock - 2017 - books.google.com
Settlements to civil conflict, which are notably difficult to secure, sometimes contain clauses
enabling the combatant sides to participate as political parties in post-conflict elections. In …