The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Gowa, Joanne -- I. Introduction -- 2. The Bretton Woods Regime and the United States -- 3. The Influence of Consensus -- 4. The Role of Structure and Process -- 5. The President, Policy Implementation, and the Short Road to Camp David -- 6. The Camp David...

The conflicts of interest that prevailed between the great powers in the wake of the First World War eviscerated their ability to respond collectively to the advent of the Great Depression. Instead, each turned to discriminatory trade barriers and trade blocs to try to revive domestic output....

"The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the...