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Allied by Design: Defining a Path to Thoughtful Allied Space Power Open

Bruce McClintock, Andrew Radin, Cortney Weinbaum, Stephanie Anne Pillion, Bonnie L. Triezenberg , et al. · 2024

Computer science Physics

In this report, the authors assess the goals, organization, and activities of the U.S. Department of Defense space enterprise on allied-related space activities. They evaluate six allies — Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the…

Competing Visions of Restraint Open

Miranda Priebe, John Schuessler, Bryan Rooney, Jasen Castillo · 2024

Political science Sociology

At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, a subset of realists, conservatives, and progressives have called for greater restraint in U.S. grand strategy. Given that restraint is a key position in the grand strategy debate, this art…

Assessing the Value of Overseas Military Campaigning in Strategic Competition Open

Stephen Watts, Angela O’Mahony, Bryan Rooney, Maggie Habib, Patrick Mills , et al. · 2023

Business Political science Engineering

This report's authors examine the contributions of overseas campaigning instruments to U.S. strategic goals. The authors conducted statistical analyses of the relationships between these tools and deterrence, access and cooperation, and pa…

Like-Minded Allies? Indo-Pacific Partners' Views on Possible Changes in the U.S. Relationship with Taiwan Open

Jeffrey W. Hornung, Miranda Priebe, Bryan Rooney, P.G. Hulme, Nobuhiko Tamaki , et al. · 2023

Political science Geography Sociology

Debates about options for future U.S. policy toward Taiwan tend to focus on how each would affect China's calculus on invading the island, but another important consideration is how U.S. allies in the region would respond. The authors of t…

Future U.S. Peacetime Policy Toward Russia: Exploring the Benefits and Costs of a Less-Hardline Approach Open

Miranda Priebe, Bryan Frederick, A. Evans, Samuel Charap, Gabrielle Tarini , et al. · 2023

Political science Economics Psychology

After the Ukraine war ends, U.S.-Russian relations will remain hostile. But future U.S. policymakers will also need to balance competing demands and might therefore consider a peacetime limited less-hardline approach toward Russia. Using f…

Replication Data for: Emergency Powers and the Heterogeneity of Terror in Democratic States Open

Bryan Rooney · 2022

Political science Biology

Terrorist violence has recently led several states to grant extraordinary powers to the executive. Yet scholars have only recently begun to examine whether the provision of such emergency powers influences the probability of future terrori…

Managing Escalation While Competing Effectively in the Indo-Pacific Open

Bryan Frederick, Kristen Gunness, Bonny Lin, Cortez A. Cooper, Bryan Rooney , et al. · 2022

Business Political science Psychology

The expansion of Chinese military activity and capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region has led the United States to undertake its own increase in activity in the region over the past decade. As the United States expands its military activi…

Replication Data for: Political Turnover, Regime Type, and Investment Behavior Open

Bryan Rooney, Matthew DiLorenzo · 2021

Economics Political science Biology

Firms and individuals condition their investment choices on domestic political factors in host countries. Existing research describes how government preferences and policy choices influence investment behavior. Some have argued that invest…

Replication Data for: International Constraints, Political Turnover, and Voting Consistency in the United Nations General Assembly Open

Matthew DiLorenzo, Bryan Rooney · 2020

Political science Computer science Business

Data and scripts to reproduce all statistical models, tables, and figures in main text and Online Appendix of the article.

Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset Open

Bryan Rooney · 2019

Political science Sociology Medicine

This article discusses the content and causes of emergency powers in democratic states. It makes two main contributions. First, it introduces the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset, which codifies formal rules of institutional change duri…

Replication Data for: Vote-Buying by the United States in the United Nations Open