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  • Why Leaders Fight

    by Michael C. Horowitz, Allan C. Stam, Cali M. Ellis ...
    The history of political events is made by people. From wars to elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate events. Not all individuals have the same impact on our world and our lives. Some peoples' choices alter the pathways that history takes. In particular, national chief executives play a large role in forging the destinies of the countries they ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Democracies at War

    by Dan Reiter, Allan C. Stam ...
    Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

    Place-Based Transformations and Transitions

    Edited by Allan O'Connor, Erik Stam, Fiona Sussan, David B. Audretsch ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book features latest research insights into the study of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The focus is on understanding its influence on the development of socially and physically defined ‘places’, and how these factors are related with each other. The book argues that regardless of how the concept of a ‘place’ is defined, be it cities, regions, nations or otherwise, the impact of new ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Behavioral Origins of War

    by D. Scott Bennett, Allan C. Stam III ...
    In The Behavioral Origins of War, D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam analyze systemic, binary, and individual factors in order to evaluate a wide variety of theories about the origins of war.Challenging the view that theories of war are nothing more than competing explanations for observed behavior, this expansive study incorporates variables from multiple theories and thus accounts for war's ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • New Directions for International Relations

    Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

    by Bruce Russett, Karl DeRouen Jr, Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Shaun Goldfinch, William Howell, Paul Huth, Ranan D. Kuperman, Brett Ashley Leeds0, Zeev Maoz1, Jon Pevehouse2, Alastair Smith3, Allan C. Stam4, Ilan Talmud5, Lesley G. Terris6, Michael D. Ward7, Suzanne Werner8, Amy Yuen9 ...
    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    The Intrastate Dimension

    by Manus I. Midlarsky ...
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    $27.99 CAD

  • Thinking Like a Political Scientist

    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Painful Choices

    A Theory of Foreign Policy Change

    by David A. Welch ...
    Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • All International Politics Is Local

    The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

    by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ...
    How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • How Statesmen Think

    The Psychology of International Politics

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Liberal Illusion

    Does Trade Promote Peace?

    by Katherine Barbieri ...
    "A very important and long-awaited major contribution to the debate . . . Her work cannot be ignored."--Nils Petter Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research"Barbieri builds on a solid foundation of work on trade and conflict and specifies the conditions under which trade reduces and increases conflict. . . . The bottom line is that this is an important book in the study of trade and conflict because ... Read more

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