Introduction to CMPS Special Issue

Enterline, Andrew J.

doi:10.1177/0738894210379319

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“…For example, we recently wrote that, "The difference between coding a clash versus an attack is whether the initiator could be identified". The team that built MID4 (2004-2010) and MID5 (2011-2014 responded (Palmer et al, 2020a): "This does not square with our application of the coding rules. To our knowledge, MIDs have never been coded using such a decision rule.…”

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“…Standardized analyses of important topics like diversionary conflict and rally effects in the American context had proven elusive in a field often informed by anecdotes in the absence of the caliber of data we provide here (e.g. James, 1987;Enterline, 2010). CoW's incident data, which would only include the Clinton Administration onward, would miss important variation in the American context.…”

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The Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, 1816–2014

Gibler

Miller

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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We use this article to introduce the Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, a new dataset for international conflict with a host of innovative features. The MIE data offers dyadic, event-level information for all militarized interstate confrontations from 1816 to 2014, including major wars as well as all threats, displays, and uses of force between two or more states. The data come with major innovations, including dyadic fatality estimates at the event level and recorded events for general conflicts alongside the battles of the wars of the last two centuries. We discuss how to use these conflict data and provide a replication that demonstrates the dataset's usefulness.

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Section: Potential Usesmentioning

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The Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, 1816–2014

Gibler

Miller

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…Theoretical models of international politics and processes increasingly accept the premise that political leaders make foreign policy decisions with an eye on electoral fortunes at home (Bueno de Mesquita et al ). Such an assumption has actually grounded diversionary theory from its inception (Enterline ). Indeed, popular culture and political science scholarship regularly conclude that policy choices, even foreign policy ones, primarily serve the political interests of elected leaders.…”

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When Political Gridlock Reigns in Presidential Foreign Policy: Policy Availability and the Role of Congress

Marshall¹,

Prins²

2016

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There is an inherent connection between the party cover and policy availability theories that has been largely overlooked by the presidential use of force literature. Party cover views the president's party strength in Congress as the prominent structural source shaping presidential incentives by diffusing responsibility in foreign policy. But policy availability adds to this view by explaining how such domestic conditions shape the variety of choices (or tools) presidents have for demonstrating political leadership. Policy availability anticipates that presidential incentives to use the Constitution's Article II authority across foreign policy operations will vary depending on the president's relationship with Congress. This analysis provides insight into claims made by policy availability arguments regarding the role of Congress in explaining presidential decisions to initiate military interventions. The findings point to important differences in the effects of Congress on presidential decisions for low‐risk versus high‐risk military missions. We find that the president's ability to legislate decreases the likelihood of humanitarian interventions. In addition, we find that as the president's relationship with Congress becomes more legislatively productive, presidents seem significantly more drawn toward high‐ risk military interventions. We infer from these findings that policy availability represents a powerful motivation in the president's calculation to engage in foreign policy interventions.

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“…3 Second, studying how leaders' dovish and hawkish proclivities interact with latency can uniquely enrich the discussions in this special issue on leaders' impact in international politics. While the study of leaders' impact on the world stage has mostly focused on conflict (Carter, 2024a), we know less about how leaders' preferences interact with nuclear latency in this regard. To boot, most investigations have looked at how institutions constrain or enhance leaders' preferences (see Carter, 2024b;Chiozza and Khalifa, 2024;Greene and Licht, 2024).…”

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How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement

Jones,

Mattiacci,

Nordstrom

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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What is the effect of nuclear latency on states’ conflict behaviors? Defined as the ability to produce fissile material without the actual possession of nuclear weapons, nuclear latency is much more common in the international system than nuclear weapons are. Yet present studies might have underestimated its impact on conflict. We argue that, given its ambiguous nature as a dual-use technology, nuclear latency has the potential to significantly alter the effect of leader type on conflict. In particular, while conventional wisdom about hawks and doves suggests that the former should be more prone to conflict than the latter, nuclear latency blurs the distinction between leader's types. Bridging together studies of nuclear latency and leader type, we study how nuclear latency shapes the impact of leader type on the propensity of initiating conflict or being targeted. We find that in the absence of latency, hawkish leaders are more likely to initiate disputes than dovish leaders. However, latency muddies the waters. Thus, leader characteristics does not affect dispute initiation for latent states.

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Introduction to CMPS Special Issue

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

The Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, 1816–2014

The Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, 1816–2014

When Political Gridlock Reigns in Presidential Foreign Policy: Policy Availability and the Role of Congress

How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement

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