Publication
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Parliamentary peace or partisan politics?
Parliamentary peace or partisan politics? Democracies’ participation in the Iraq War Abstract: “This paper seeks to explain democracies’ military participation in the Iraq War. Prior studies have identified institutional and partisan differences as potential explanatory factors for the observed variance. The interaction of institutions and partisanship, however, has gone largely unobserved. I argue that these factors must be analyzed in… Continue reading →
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In Search of New Wars
In Search of New Wars: The Debate about a Transformation of War Abstract: “This article examines the literature on ‘new wars’ as it evolved in Germany, Great Britain and the USA. In order to gain an overview of this heterogeneous field of research five hypotheses are derived concerning characteristics of ‘new wars’: (1) the erosion of the state’s monopoly on… Continue reading →