Showing papers in "Security Studies in 2018"
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of "accountability environments" is proposed to identify the links between democracy and foreign security policy, and the authors develop a novel theory of accountability environments.
Abstract: Identifying the links between democracy and foreign security policy has proven elusive. This paper engages this research agenda by developing a novel theory of “accountability environments” and exp...
30 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a fine-grained theory and evidences of collusion between the Pakistani military and armed groups are presented, along with a fine grained theory of selective repression of and collusion with armed groups.
Abstract: Analysts and policymakers agree that the Pakistani military has engaged in selective repression of and collusion with armed groups. Yet beyond this general observation, fine-grained theory and evid...
26 citations
TL;DR: This paper found that intangible framings do not necessarily engender stronger assertions that such territories belong to the homeland than tangible framings, nor do they necessarily motivate greater support for nationalist territorial agendas.
Abstract: When are domestic publics most sympathetic to nationalist territorial ambitions? Conflict scholars commonly assume support should be greatest when territory is framed as being of intangible value to national identity over tangible importance to national security and economic prosperity. This should be especially true regarding lost homelands, territories wherein a state has previously exercised sovereignty and to which it has enduring ethnic ties. This article presents experimental evidence that directly challenges these assumptions, demonstrating the variability of Serbian popular attachments to three lost territories: Kosovo, Bosnia, and Montenegro. It finds that intangible framings do not necessarily engender stronger assertions that such territories belong to the homeland than tangible framings do. Nor do they necessarily motivate greater support for nationalist territorial agendas. These findings cast doubt on conventional wisdom regarding domestic publics' contributions to territorial confli...
18 citations
TL;DR: The terrorist organizations that have posed the greatest threat to international security are those with allies as discussed by the authors, particularly those with Islamic Jihadists, who are at the core of alliance networks, particularly the Islamic State an...
Abstract: The terrorist organizations that have posed the greatest threat to international security are those with allies. Terrorist groups at the core of alliance networks, particularly the Islamic State an...
16 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze whether the use of chemical weapons in Syria will lead to further proliferation and use of Chemical Weapons (CW) in the future, and they conclude that it will not lead to the health of the CW norm.
Abstract: With chemical weapons (CW) use in Syria raising questions about the health of the CW norm, this article analyzes whether the Syrian case will lead to further proliferation and use of chemical weapo...
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of local allies in counter-insurgency interventions is discussed and the role of local alliances is investigated. But traditional research on alliances fails to account for the challe...
Abstract: Alliance politics are critical yet understudied in counterinsurgency interventions. Despite the importance of local allies, traditional research on alliances fails to account for the challe...
14 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects do transnational ethnic diaspora communities have on the terrorist organizations with which they are linked, and are they more resilient and longer-lived than other communities?
Abstract: What effects do transnational ethnic diaspora communities have on the terrorist organizations with which they are linked? Are diaspora-linked terrorist movements more resilient and longer lived? Wh...
14 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between wartime provision of public services and postwar trustworthiness norms among civilians in Sri Lanka, using original survey data collected from Sri Lanka and empirical analysis suggests that postwar norms of interpersonal trustworthiness tend to weaken if individuals experienced higher amounts of service provision by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Abstract: While previous studies focus most of their attention on the impact of civil-war violence on postwar norms of interpersonal trustworthiness, they overlook the importance of political actors' nonviolent interference in civic life during such conflicts. This paper investigates the relationship between wartime provision of public services and postwar trustworthiness norms among civilians. Using original survey data collected from Sri Lanka, empirical analysis suggests that postwar norms of interpersonal trustworthiness tend to weaken if individuals experienced higher amounts of service provision by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. To build their own apparatus to provide efficient services, the rebels deeply intervened in and altered local institutions. Such transformation of local institutions dissolves existing social groups and associations that previously tied residents together. Efforts of post-civil-war community development would be ill equipped if these institutions were treated as nonexis...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theory of hot pursuit for the use of military force by a state against a non-state actor across borders in international relations, drawing from the literature on civil-milit...
Abstract: This article provides a new theory of hot pursuit—the use of military force by a state against a nonstate actor across borders—in international relations. Drawing from the literature on civil-milit...
5 citations
TL;DR: This article used data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project to investigate whether and to what extent US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inwardlooking; and the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse.
Abstract: Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two major data sources: a series of cross-national surveys of IR faculty in thirty-two countries and a database of journal articles published in the twelve leading IR journals from 1980 to 2014. We find obvious signs of US hegemony and insularity. Other national IR communities are relatively open to foreign ideas, if not to hiring scholars trained in other countries. Finally, despite US hegemony in the discipline and pockets of geographic insularity, we see a diverse field characterized by a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological commi...
TL;DR: Scholars have vigorously debated whether adversaries carefully scrutinize if states have, in the past, demonstrated toughness and whether adversaries base present and future crisis-bargaining behav... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Scholars have vigorously debated whether adversaries carefully scrutinize if states have, in the past, demonstrated toughness and whether adversaries base present and future crisis-bargaining behav...
TL;DR: It is argued that deployment of “quasi-secrecy”—a combination of official secrecy with leaks, selective disclosure, and de facto public awareness—can be an effective strategy for achieving normalization and legitimation while containing the risks entailed by disclosure.
Abstract: This article argues that when actors engage in controversial new security practices, it is misconceived to view secrecy as an opposed, counterproductive alternative to the pursuit of legiti...
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that authoritarian leaders use nationalist propaganda as a tool to strengthen mass support, but few studies have provided systematic evidence to account for specific types of propaganda, such as white nationalism.
Abstract: Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders use nationalist propaganda as a tool to strengthen mass support. Yet few studies have provided systematic evidence to account for specific ta...