Subnational comparative research has received increasing attention as a method that is academically rigorous and offers in-depth knowledge about specific cases. However, the practical difficulties surrounding the selection of cases to be researched and compared are seldom discussed in a...

Research on Chinese International Relations (IR) theory has produced a variety of discourses, including post-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however, hardly overlap or communicate with each other. To...

NSC Entrepreneurship: A Framework of Analysis -- Against the Americanization of the Vietnam War: George W. Ball's Battle for LBJ's Heart and Mind, 1964-65 -- An Offbeat Entrepreneur: Gerard C. Smith and the SALT Negotiations, 1969-72 -- An Ill-Fated Success: Robert McFarlane and the "Iranian...