The Quantitative Study of International Security: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Advances

Abstract

Quantitative methods have been a critical tool in the methodological arsenal of international security scholars and their application has yielded important contributions to a better understanding of issues as diverse as inter-state war, civil conflict, nuclear weapons, alliances, and terrorism. During the past decade scholars have expanded both substantive areas of research and methodological repertoires of quantitative security analysis and started to explore questions concerned with the domestic sources of international conflict, ethnic conflict, the effect of geography on war onset and duration, and the effect of networks of various kinds for state conflict behaviour that have previously been neglected. The papers on this panel contribute to these and other avenues of inquiry. They advance the quantitative study of international security by developing innovative theoretical arguments for examining a range of substantial problems of importance for security analysts, including state repression, ethnic conflict, civil war, and alliances. The papers also make important methodological contributions by introducing indicators, models, and estimation techniques that help address problems that have posed serious challenges to quantitative scholars. Together, the papers provide innovative theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to the quantitative study of international security and point to promising avenues for future research in their respective substantive fields of inquiry.

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The Conditions of Dyadic Interaction leading to Interstate Conflict Deescalation	View Paper Details
State Repression in Democratic Regimes	View Paper Details
From Mobilization to Conflict: Causes and Consequences of the Ethnicization of Politics	View Paper Details
Beyond Elevation: Modeling State Reach and Geographic Accessibility	View Paper Details
Web-based Political Movements: Mathematical Model of Mobilisation	View Paper Details
Measuring State Failure	View Paper Details