This study seeks to determine how the Army institutionally selects its 3 and 4-star officers. The central focus, What patterns are evident in the output of the Army’s 3 and 4-star selection process? has three main findings: ...

Why do allies come into conflict with each other in the face of increasing external threats? This article answers this question by pointing out the moral hazard inherent to alliance politics. In exchange for security commitments ...

Previous research examining the deterring effect of a missile defense has asserted thatsuch a missile defense|damage-limiting capability |decreases the vulnerability ofthe United States(US) and enhances its security guarantee ...

The international linkages between autocratic regimes have gained increasing attention in recent years but remain poorly understood. This literature is often limited by a selective focus on a specific set of international ...

Proponents of epistemic democracy defend democracy’s capacity to harness people’s wisdom and produce better results than its rivals (Cohen 1986; Goodin and Spiekermann 2018; Landemore 2012). Yet contemporary democracies ...

The conventional wisdom in electoral studies links proportional representation to multi-party systems and plurality rules to bipartism. Although this prediction fits the dynamics of political competition well at the district ...

What are the causes of conflict recurrence in states recently coming out of a civil war? Various theories focus on how the conflict ends, the development issues the states faces post-war, or the effect of a third-party ...

Does Chinese aid cause more civil conflicts in Africa? Doubts have been cast about Chinese development assistance finance. In this article, I argue that Chinese aid is likely to arouse more civil conflicts in Africa because ...

This paper examines the trend of variation in development performance withinChina's Eastern Zone and the underlying mechanism of the changing trend. Empirical descriptions as well as analyses are provided based on the comparison ...

Today, the trend towards decentralization is far-reaching. Proponents of decentralization have argued that decentralization promotes responsive and accountable local government by shortening the distance between ...