Books
Weeks, Jessica. Dictators at war and peace. Cornell University Press, 2014. Pages 1-82.
Reiter, Dan, and Allan C. Stam. Democracies at war. Princeton University Press, 2002. Pages 1-83
Russett, Bruce, and John Oneal. "Triangulating peace." Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, New York (2001). Pages 43-122
Horowitz, Michael C., Allan C. Stam, and Cali M. Ellis. Why leaders fight. Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Whole book)
Levy, Jack S., and William R. Thompson. Causes of war. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. (Whole book)
Online articles
Bove, Vincenzo, and Gunes Gokmen. "Cultural Distance and Interstate Conflicts." British Journal of Political Science 47.4 (2017): 939-949.
Bowles, Samuel. "Being human: Conflict: Altruism's midwife." Nature 456.7220 (2008): 326.
Braumoeller, Bear. "Is War Disappearing?." (2013).
Clauset, Aaron. "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars." Science advances 4.2 (2018): eaao3580.
Dafoe, Allan, and Devin Caughey. "Honor and war: Southern US presidents and the effects of concern for reputation." World politics 68.2 (2016): 341-381.
Fearon, James D. "Rationalist explanations for war." International organization 49.3 (1995): 379-414.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. "Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war." American political science review 97.1 (2003): 75-90.
Gartzke, Erik. "War is in the Error Term." International Organization 53.3 (1999): 567-587.
Fortna, Virginia Page. "Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes." International Organization69.3 (2015): 519-556.
Gartzke, Erik. "The capitalist peace." American journal of political science 51.1 (2007): 166-191.
Gartzke, Erik, and Matthew Kroenig. "Nukes with numbers: empirical research on the consequences of nuclear weapons for international conflict." Annual Review of Political Science 19 (2016): 397-412.
Gartzke, Erik, and Matthew Kroenig. "Social Scientific Analysis of Nuclear Weapons: Past Scholarly Successes, Contemporary Challenges, and Future Research Opportunities." Journal of Conflict Resolution 61.9 (2017): 1853-1874.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, et al. "Armed conflict 1946-2001: A new dataset." Journal of peace research 39.5 (2002): 615-637
Gleditsch, N. P., Pinker, S., Thayer, B. A., Levy, J. S., & Thompson, W. R. (2013). The forum: The decline of war. International Studies Review, 15(3), 396-419.
Kim, Woosang, and Scott Gates. "Power transition theory and the rise of China." International Area Studies Review 18.3 (2015): 219-226.
Hjort, Nils Lid. 2017. “Towards a More Peaceful World [insert ‘!’ or ‘?’ here]”, blog post on PRIO Blog: https://blogs.prio.org/2018/02/towards-a-more-peaceful-world-insert-or-here/
Lemke, Douglas and Suzanne Werner. 1996. “Power parity, commitment to change, and war.", International Studies Quarterly 40(2):235{260.
Morelli, Massimo, and Tommaso Sonno. "On Economic Interdependence and War." Journal of Economic Literature 55.3 (2017): 1084-97.
Pape, Robert A. "The strategic logic of suicide terrorism." American political science review 97.3 (2003): 343-361.
Pinker, Steven. 2014. “Violence Vanquished”. The Wall Street Journal.
Reiter, Dan. "Exploring the bargaining model of war." Perspectives on Politics 1.1 (2003): 27-43
Sagan, Scott D. "The perils of proliferation: Organization theory, deterrence theory, and the spread of nuclear weapons." International Security 18.4 (1994): 66-107.
Schneider, Gerald. "Peace through globalization and capitalism? Prospects of two liberal propositions." Journal of Peace Research 51.2 (2014): 173-183.
Stein, Rachel M. "War and revenge: explaining conflict initiation by democracies." American Political Science Review 109.3 (2015): 556-573.
Walter, Barbara F. "The new new civil wars." Annual Review of Political Science 20 (2017): 469-486.
Waltz, Kenneth N. "The origins of war in neorealist theory." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18.4 (1988): 615-628.
Waltz, Kenneth N. "Nuclear myths and political realities." American Political Science Review 84.3 ( 1990): 730-745.
Online articles:
- are available through the University Library databases.
- are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get access from home and when travelling.
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