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Brett Ashley Leeds; Michaela Mattes; Jeremy S. Vogel, 2012, "Interests, Institutions, and the Reliability of International Commitments", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P4RD8H, Harvard Dataverse, V1
One feature associated with democratic governance is frequent leadership turnover. While the ease of replacing leaders improves accountability, it may impede the ability of democracies to make credible long-term international commitments. Using newly collected data that identify cases in which leaders who derive their support from different domesti... |
Jan 7, 2009
Brett Ashley Leeds; Michaela Mattes, 2009, "Replication data for: Alliance Politics During the Cold War: Aberration, New World Order, or Continuation of History?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/L4STW5, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:yE/9b1s96Lq/f9Bjjdfn7w== [fileUNF]
Scholars have often wondered whether the nature of alliance politics fundamentally changed during the bipolar nuclear era characterized by the Cold War. The extension of the Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) dataset to include the years from 1815 to 2003 allows us the ability to evaluate systematically whether the Cold War period wa... |
Jan 7, 2009
Brett Ashley Leeds; Burcu Savun, 2009, "Replication data for: Terminating Alliances: Why do States Abrogate Agreements?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EOVMZE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:zhr6y7tVAPOboL6hjpvBYw== [fileUNF]
Are binding international agreements only valuable as matters stand (rebus sic stantibus), or are pacts respected in good faith regardless of changing circumstances (pacta sunt servanda)? In this article, we examine this question with respect to military alliance agreements, and we find that alliances are more likely to be abrogated opportunistical... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds, 2007, "Replication data for: Alliances and the Expansion and Escalation of Militarized Interstate Disputes", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M00CVG, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:+9IjLm7Jxe7ESYBbN4YvYQ== [fileUNF]
Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions fo... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds; David R. Davis, 2007, "Replication data for: Domestic Political Vulnerability and International Disputes", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WHYX0Z, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:uePxjy9UHclSBt1RL+Np4A== [fileUNF]
The proposition that domestic political vulnerability provides an incentive for leaders to engage in international conflict has been widely accepted because of appealing logic and anecdotal support. Although empirical studies of U.S. behavior during the cold war era have demonstrated some support for a relationship between domestic political vulner... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds, 2007, "Replication data for: Do Alliances Deter Aggression? The Influence of Military Alliances on the Initiation of Militarized Interstate Disputes", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RPMHPR, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:PN+msRnVQqSGqvntflDFKQ== [fileUNF]
Scholars have long debated the effects of military alliances on the likelihood of war, and no clear support has emerged for the argument that alliances improve the prospects for peace through effective deterrence nor that they kindle the flames of war. In this study, I argue that alliance commitments affect the probability that a potential challeng... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds, 2007, "Replication data for: Alliance Reliability in Times of War: Explaining State Decisions to Violate Treaties", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I4QCYJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:k6gHMdy0jyaoDrkWdh38Cg== [fileUNF]
Understanding the conditions under which state leaders are willing to honor alliance commitments in war will increase knowledge both about the escalation and diffusion of conflict and about the propensity of states to fulfill agreements under anarchy. New data analysis provides evidence that alliance commitments are fulfilled about 75% of the time.... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds; David R. Davis, 2007, "Replication data for: Beneath the Surface: Regime Type and International Interaction - 1953-78", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3RS1JT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:djt6+hGy6noVgOVz6t6DIQ== [fileUNF]
The empirical finding that democracies do not fight each other has long suggested that regime type influences international behavior. In the research reported here, we demonstrate that the democratic peace is only the most visible manifestation of the impact of domestic political structure on international relations. We consider the complete range... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds, 2007, "Replication data for: Domestic Political Institutions, Credible Commitments, and International Cooperation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EEQL7H, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:F7/EMOrYJ9VIr3EZox+nqw== [fileUNF]
I consider the influence of domestic political institutions on the ability of leaders to establish bilateral cooperation in the international system. Leaders operating in different domestic institutional environments have differing abilities to commit credibly to future courses of action, to accept the costs of policy failures, and to adjust to cha... |
Nov 27, 2007
Brett Ashley Leeds; Sara McLaughlin Mitchell; and Andrew G. Long, 2007, "Replication data for: Reevaluating Alliance Reliability: Specific Threats, Specific Promises", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/55VDFM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:0EUCl6uscw5Lb5T+WSBMeQ== [fileUNF]
Previously reported empirical evidence suggests that when conflict arises, military alliances are not reliable; state leaders should only expect their alliance partners to join them in war about 25% of the time. Yet, theoretical arguments explaining the choices of leaders to form cooperative agreements are at odds with such empirical evidence. This... |
