Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob widerstreitende ökonomische Interessen die außenpolitische Diskussion beeinflussen, selbst wenn sicherheitspolitische Belange ganz oben auf der Tagesordnung stehen. der Autor bezieht sich dabei auf das politische Geschehen in den Vereinigten...

Recent research on the sources of individual attitudes toward trade policy comes to very different conclusions about the role of economic self-interest. The skeptical view, expressed most pointedly by Mansfield and Mutz (2009), suggests instead that longstanding symbolic predispositions and...

Most research on congressional consideration of foreign and defense policy concludes that ideology is the most important influence on roll call voting and that constituent economic interests are not very important. This paper challenges this conclusion on two grounds. First, most previous...

This research note evaluates the effect of economic interests on public support for American global activism. Those who were relatively well-positioned to benefit from the American-supported postwar international order should be more likely to support it. An analysis of American National...

This paper evaluates the effect of economic interests and security concerns on American intervention in international conflict. Generalizations about the relative importance of these considerations have played an important role in the historiography of American foreign relations. Although...

Alliances are usually understood as a way for states to aggregate military capabilities in the face of a common threat. From this perspective, the willingness of relatively powerful states to form alliances with much weaker partners is puzzling. The weaker ally often adds little to the stronger...

Have Democratic and Republican presidents used force more often than members of the other party under some circumstances during the postwar era? This article presents evidence that unemployment and inflation produce differences in the likelihood of a diversionary use of force by presidents from...