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Trading Data

This paper introduces the new Correlates of War (COW) Trade Data Set; discusses the rationale behind the authors' coding decisions; and compares this data set with other sets.
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Conflict, Cooperation, and Commerce: The Effect of International Political Interactions on Bilateral Trade Flows

The public choice approach to political economy is employed to gain insight into the connection between international politics and trade flows. A model is constructed in which importers are assumed…
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Trade Still Follows the Flag: The Primacy of Politics in a Simultaneous Model of Interdependence and Armed Conflict

While many scholars have posited a simultaneous relationship between trade and conflict, very few empirical studies have specified the relationship as such. Those that did employed samples that were…
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Does Trade Still Follow the Flag?

A public choice approach is used to build a model of bilateral trade flows employing international conflict and cooperation, as well as prices and income, to predict the level of imports. The model…
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The Study of Interdependence and Conflict

A burgeoning literature has emerged on the relationship between economic interdependence and political conflict. This literature is evaluated, and three issues are raised for future research. First,…
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Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate

The claim that open trade promotes peace has sparked heated debate among scholars and policymakers for centuries. Until recently, however, this claim remained untested and largely unexplored.…
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Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict

Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict. By Stephen G. Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 316p. $35.00. If commerce…
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Global Political Order, Economic Change, and Armed Conflict: Coevolving Systems and the Use of Force

Several recent explanations for major-power war focus on purported cycles in global economic activity or in global political order. I shall argue that a better understanding of interrelationships…
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Pax Mercatoria and the Theory of the State

Interdependence and Conflict : An Introduction

Over the past few decades, there has been a surge of interest in the relationship between economic interdependence and political con›ict. One view that has gained considerable popularity and…
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