The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory

William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and the Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a former president of the International Studies Association (2005Ââ6), former editor in chief of International Studies Quarterly (1994â1998 and 2009â13), and has been on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Professor Thompson is also the recipient of the World Society Foundation's Award of Excellence in World Society Research, the International Global Research Association and Moscow State University's V. I. Vernadsky Gold Medal of Honor (for contribution to global studies), and the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and Russian Academy of Sciences' Silver Kondratieff Medal (for contribution to the social sciences). He is presently the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

• AThe Aftermath of Civil ConflictsAgent-Based Computational Modeling and International Relations Theory The Age-Structural Theory of State BehaviorAkamatsu WavesAmerican Grand Strategy and Political Economy Theory: New Insights into Contemporary DebatesAnalytical Liberalism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Need for Empirical AnalysesApproaches to Explaining Regional Conflict and PeaceArms Races: An Assessment of Conceptual and Theoretical ChallengesAssessing Theories of Rivalry InitiationBThe Balance of Power in World PoliticsBargaining Models of War and the Stability of Peace in Post-Conflict SocietiesBargaining Theory, Civil War Outcomes, and War Recurrence: Assessing the Results of Empirical Tests of the TheoryCCapitalist Peace Theory: Plausibilities in Search of TheoryChallenges and Possibilities of Empirical International Relations Theory: Evidence from Research in BrazilCivil War and Terrorism: A Call for Further Theory Building Civil War from a Transnational PerspectiveCivil War TerminationCivilian Self-Protection and Civilian Targeting in Armed Conflicts: Who Protects Civilians?Clarifying Causal Mechanisms in International RelationsComparative and International Political Economy and the Global Financial CrisisThe Concept of Deterrence and Deterrence TheoryConflict Management of Territorial DisputesConflict, Regions, and Regional HierarchiesConstructing a General Model Accounting for Interstate Rivalry TerminationCoup-Proofing and Civil WarCumulative Knowledge, Science, and the Emergence of the Study of International RelationsDDefending Classical GeopoliticsDefining and Operationalizing a Structural Political Geography for International RelationsDemocratization and ConflictDeterminants of Foreign Direct InvestmentThe Determinates of Military Intervention in Interstate and Civil WarsDiffusion in International PoliticsDiplomacy and Negotiation by the Numbers: More than an Art Form?The Diverging Theory and Practice of International LawThe Diversification of Deterrence: New Data and Novel RealitiesDo We Have Far Too Much Theory in International Relations or Do We Need Far Less?: Waltz Was Wrong, Tetlock Was RightDomestic Coalitions: International Sources and EffectsDynamics, Endogeneity, and Complexity in Nonviolent Protest CampaignsEEconomic Incentives as Weapons of WarEconomic Interdependence and ConflictThe Effectiveness of Peace Keeping OperationsThe Effectiveness of WTO Dispute SettlementEmpirical Analyses of DeterrenceEmpirical Evidence for Empirical International Relations Theorizing: Tests of Epistemological Assumptions with DataEmpirical Knowledge on Foreign Military InterventionsThe Empirical Promise of Game TheoryEmpirically Assessing the Bargaining Theory of War: Potential and ChallengesEmpirics of Stable PeaceThe English School: History and Primary Institutions as Empirical IR Theory?Evolution, Adaptation, and ImitationThe Expansion of Economic Freedom and the Capitalist PeaceFFighting Abroad, Fighting at Home (and Vice Versa): Identifying the Relationship Between Civil and Interstate Conflict with Fewer AssumptionsFoundations of Power Transition TheoryFoundations of Rivalry ResearchFractionalization and Civil WarGGender Inequality and Internal ConflictThe Geography of Civil WarGeopolitics, Geography, and WarThe Global Spread and Contraction of Democracy: A Co-Evolutionary ApproachHHegemony, Hierarchy, and Unipolarity: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Hegemonic Order StudiesHierarchy and International Relations: Theory and EvidenceHow Did International Political Economy Become Reductionist? A Historiography of a DisciplineHow the Contractualist Peace Overtook the Democratic PeaceIImmigration and International Political EconomyThe Impact of Meso-Level Assumptions on Grand Theorizing: Using Unit, State, and Regime Type for Constructing IR's Historical Narratives (and Theory-Building)Institutions and the Global Political EconomyThe International Determinants of Military Coup BehaviorInternational Norm ChangeIntrastate Conflict and Civilian VictimizationIs Democracy a Cause of Peace?LLabor and the Global Political EconomyThe Latin American Puzzle for the Study of International RelationsLatin American Thinking in International Relations: Concepts in Place of TheoryLeaders and Foreign Policy: Surveying the EvidenceThe Logics of Systemic TheoryLong-Cycles and World-Systems Theoretical Research ProgramsMMajor Powers vs. Global Powers: A New Measure of Global Reach and Power Projection Capacity Managing Internationalized Civil WarsMeasuring Violations of Human Rights StandardsMore than Mixed Results: What Have We Learned from Quantitative Research on the Diversionary Hypothesis?Multilevel Governance as a Global Governance Challenge: Assumptions, Methods, Shortcomings, and Future DirectionsNNational SecessionNatural Resources, Climate Change, and ConflictNetwork Science and International RelationsNuclear Weapons and International Conflict: Theories and Empirical EvidenceOOpportunity and Willingness: From "Ordering Concepts" to an Analytical Perspective for the Study of PoliticsPPeace, War, Theory, and Evidence in East AsiaPerfect Deterrence TheoryThe Poliheuristic Theory of Political Decision MakingThe Political Economy of Hegemony: The (Surprising) Persistence of American HegemonyPopular Expectations, Theory, and Empirical Findings on Air PowerPopulation Aging and International ConflictPower, Conflict, and Technology: Delineating Empirical Theories in a Changing WorldPower, Institutions, and Issues as Causes of ConflictPower Shifts and WarThe Power-Transition Discourse and China's RisePower Transition Theory and the Essence of RevisionismPredatory Government and the Feasibility of Rebellion: A Micro Logic of the Capitalist PeacePro-Government Militias and ConflictProspect Theory and International PoliticsProxy Wars: Implications of Great-Power Rivalry for the Onset and Duration of Civil War Public Opinion on Foreign Policy IssuesRThe "Rally 'Round the Flag" Phenomenon and the Diversionary Use of ForceRediscovering Reputation Through Theory and EvidenceRegime Type and Foreign Direct Investment: A Transaction Economics Cost Approach to the DebateRegional Politics and Powers: Hierarchy and Comparative Regional Analysis in International RelationsResearch Findings on the Evolution of PeacekeepingRole Theory as an Empirical Theory of International Relations: From Metaphor to Formal ModelSThe Selectorate Theory and International PoliticsSocial Identity Theory: Status and Identity in International RelationsSoft BalancingThe Spread of Conflict in International RelationsThe State of Hezbollah? Sovereignty as a Potentiality in Global South ContextsStates and Nonstate Armed Groups (NAGs) Alliance in International Relations TheoryThe Steps to War: Theory and EvidenceStrategic Culture Theory: What, Why, and HowThe Strategic Uses of State Repression and Political ViolenceSuicide Terrorism TheoriesSymbolic Politics as International Relations TheorySystemic Causes of Civil WarSystemic Leadership, Energy Considerations, and the Leadership Long Cycle PerspectiveTTaking China Seriously: Relationality, Tianxia, and the "Chinese School" of International RelationsThe Territorial Peace: A Research ProgramThe Territorial Peace: Theory, Evidence, and ImplicationsTerritory and Contentious IssuesTerrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: OverviewTerrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: Anarchist Wave Terrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: Anti-Colonial Wave Terrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: New Left WaveTerrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: Religious Wave Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Uncertainty and the Probability of Conflict in International RelationsTheoretical Diversity in International Relations: Dominance, Pluralism, and DivisionTheoretical Underpinnings of a Global Social ContractTheories of Civil War and its Pitfalls and PromisesTheories of International Norm Contestation: Structure and OutcomesTheories of Interstate PeaceTheory and Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Human Rights TreatiesThe Theory of Lateral Pressure: Highlights of Quantification and Empirical AnalysisTheory of Regional War and PeaceTo Arms, to Arms: What Do We Know About Arms Races?Toward an Evolutionary Theory of International RelationsTwenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and ProspectsThe Two-Good Theory in Practice from Abstract Generalization to Specific Inference240 Years of Foreign Policy Moods in a Democracy Which Grew into a Superpower: What Does It Mean for IR Theory?UUnderstanding Ethnic Conflict: Four Waves and BeyondUnderstanding Government Behavior During Armed ConflictA Unified Analysis of the Diversionary and Constraint Accounts of Crisis InitiationUnipolarity: The Shaky Foundation of a Fashionable ConceptWWar Making and the Building of State Capacity: Expanding the Bivariate RelationshipWar TerminationWaves of Political TerrorismWhat Do We Know About Global Financial Crises? Putting IPE and Economics in ConversationWhat Do You Know About Civil War Duration?What Helps Protect Human Rights: Human Rights Theory and EvidenceWomen and Terrorism