Books:
Braumoeller, B. F. (2019). Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age. Oxford University Press, USA. Whole book. 224 pages.
Horowitz, Michael C., Allan C. Stam, and Cali M. Ellis. Why leaders fight. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Whole book . 200 pages.
Levy, Jack S., and William R. Thompson. Causes of war. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Whole book. 220 pages.
Articles available online
Articles are available through the University Library database. Please see the University Library guide for access to electronic articles. Online articles are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get acess from home and when travelling.
Bove, Vincenzo, and Gunes Gokmen. "Cultural Distance and Interstate Conflicts." British Journal of Political Science 47.4 (2017): 939-949.
Bowles, Samuel. "Being human: Conflict: Altruism's midwife." Nature 456.7220 (2008): 326.
Braut-Hegghammer, M. (2011). Revisiting Osirak: preventive attacks and nuclear proliferation risks. International Security, 36(1), 101-132.
Choi, J. K., & Bowles, S. (2007). The coevolution of parochial altruism and war. science, 318(5850), 636-640.
Cunningham, David E., and Douglas Lemke. "Combining civil and interstate wars." International Organization 67.3 (2013): 609-627.
Dafoe, A., Oneal, J. R., & Russett, B. (2013). The democratic peace: Weighing the evidence and cautious inference. International Studies Quarterly, 57(1), 201-214
Dafoe, Allan, and Devin Caughey. "Honor and war: Southern US presidents and the effects of concern for reputation." World politics 68.2 (2016): 341-381.
Fearon, James D. "Rationalist explanations for war." International organization 49.3 (1995): 379-414.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. "Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war." American political science review 97.1 (2003): 75-90.
Fortna, Virginia Page. "Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes." International Organization, 69.3 (2015): 519-556.
Gartzke, Erik, and Matthew Kroenig. "Nukes with numbers: empirical research on the consequences of nuclear weapons for international conflict." Annual Review of Political Science 19 (2016): 397-412.
Gartzke, Erik. "The capitalist peace." American journal of political science 51.1 (2007): 166-191.
Gartzke, Erik. "War is in the Error Term." International Organization 53.3 (1999): 567-587.
Gleditsch, N. P., Pinker, S., Thayer, B. A., Levy, J. S., & Thompson, W. R. (2013). The forum: The decline of war. International Studies Review, 15(3), 396-419.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, et al. "Armed conflict 1946-2001: A new dataset." Journal of peace research 39.5 (2002): 615-637.
Hegre, H., Bernhard, M., & Teorell, J. (2019). Civil Society and the Democratic Peace. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 0022002719850620.
Hegre, H., Oneal, J. R., & Russett, B. (2010). Trade does promote peace: New simultaneous estimates of the reciprocal effects of trade and conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 47(6), 763-774.
Henrich, J., Bauer, M., Cassar, A., Chytilová, J., & Purzycki, B. G. (2019). War increases religiosity. Nature human behaviour, 3(2), 129.
Hyde, S., & Saunders, E. (2020). Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space. International Organization, 1-33. doi:10.1017/S0020818319000365
Kim, W., & Gates, S. (2015). Power transition theory and the rise of China. International Area Studies Review, 18(3), 219-226.
Kim, Woosang, and Scott Gates. "Power transition theory and the rise of China." International Area Studies Review 18.3 (2015): 219-226.
Lemke, Douglas and Suzanne Werner. 1996. “Power parity, commitment to change, and war.", International Studies Quarterly 40(2):235-260.
Maoz, Z., & Russett, B. (1993). Normative and structural causes of democratic peace, 1946–1986. American Political Science Review, 87(3), 624-638.
Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. "Leaving theory behind: why hypothesis testing has become bad for IR." European Journal of International Relations 19.3 (2013): 427-457.
Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin. "Dangerous bargains with the devil? Incorporating new approaches in peace science for the study of war." Conflict management and peace science 34.1 (2017): 98-116.
Oneal, John R., et al. "The liberal peace: Interdependence, democracy, and international conflict, 1950-85." Journal of Peace Research 33.1 (1996): 11-28.
Pape, Robert A. "The strategic logic of suicide terrorism." American political science review 97.3 (2003): 343-361.
Reiter, Dan. "Exploring the bargaining model of war." Perspectives on Politics 1.1 (2003): 27-43.
Sagan, Scott D. "The perils of proliferation: Organization theory, deterrence theory, and the spread of nuclear weapons." International Security 18.4 (1994): 66-107.
Schneider, Gerald. "Peace through globalization and capitalism? Prospects of two liberal propositions." Journal of Peace Research 51.2 (2014): 173-183.
Stein, Rachel M. "War and revenge: explaining conflict initiation by democracies." American Political Science Review 109.3 (2015): 556-573.
Walter, Barbara F. "The new new civil wars." Annual Review of Political Science 20 (2017): 469-486.
Waltz, Kenneth N. "Nuclear myths and political realities." American Political Science Review 84.3 (1990): 730-745.
Weeks, J. L. (2008). Autocratic audience costs: Regime type and signaling resolve. International Organization, 62(1), 35-64.
Weeks, J. L. (2012). Strongmen and straw men: Authoritarian regimes and the initiation of international conflict. American Political Science Review, 106(2), 326-347.
Wohlforth, W. C. (2009). Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war. World politics, 61(1), 28-57.
Blog posts and newspaper articles (available online):
Dan Reiter's response to Mearsheimer: http://duckofminerva.com/2013/09/in-defense-of-simplistic-hypothesis-testing.html
Hjort, Nils Lid. 2017. “Towards a More Peaceful World [insert ‘!’ or ‘?’ here]”, blog post on PRIO Blog: https://blogs.prio.org/2018/02/towards-a-more-peaceful-world-insert-or-here/
John Mearsheimer's entry to the ``Duck of Minerva'' symposium: http://duckofminerva.com/2013/09/leaving-theory-behind-why-simplistic-hypothesis-testing-is-bad-for-ir.html
Pinker, Steven. 2014. “Violence Vanquished”. The Wall Street Journal.