War -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged War

Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, Siverson, and Smith: An institutional explanation of the democratic peace
Copeland: The origins of major war
Doyle: Kant, liberal legacies, and foreign affairs
Fearon: Rationalist explanations for war
Gartzke: War is in the error term
Gurr: Why men rebel
Hechter and Okamoto: Political consequences of minority group formation
Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations
Jervis: War and misperception
Lake and Rothchild: Territorial decentralization and civil war settlements
Legro: Military culture and inadvertent escalation in World War II
Magagna: Communities of grain
Muller and Seligson: Inequality and insurgency
Narizny: Both guns and butter, or neither
Roeder: Power dividing as an alternative to ethnic power-sharing
Schultz: Do democratic institutions constrain or inform
Stein: When misperception matters
Treisman: Rational appeasement
Van Evera: Offense, defense, and the causes of war
Wagner: Bargaining and war
Walter: The critical barrier to civil war settlement
Walter: The critical barrier to civil war settlement

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.