One of the most controversial subjects among students of international politics is the role of rational choice in deterrence. Disagreement is especially intense regarding application to the nuclear setting. Progress in that debate depends on identifying evidence appropriate for testing a wide...

We began this analysis with the point that the structural characteristics of collectivities of states have been largely ignored in studies of conflict and crisis. The analysis was aimed at identifying, operationalizing, and examining the effects of a set of such structural factors on process and...

From June 3 to 9, 1990, the Canadian federal and provincial governments bargained intensively over the final draft of a constitutional agreement known as the Meech Lake Accord. Although that crisis produced a tentative settlement, ratification ultimately failed in two provinces. The objective of...