Peace on a Knife’s Edge is the translation of Lee Jong-Seok's 2014 memoir of South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun's efforts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula in the face of opposition at home...

Abstract The causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation have received a great deal ofacademic attention. However, nuclear weapons are rarely discussed in isolation in policycircles.

First page of the article: Reports of sexual violence during the ongoing unrest in Libya have captured headlines across the world.

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union.

A growing fraction of the world's civil wars seem to be breaking out on the African continent, and in the last few decades it has acquired a reputation as a hotbed of violence and warfare.  Social...

(From the introduction) For more than a decade, international lawyers and international relations scholars have been fascinated by an ever-increasing number of international courts and tribunals....

Does diversity endanger democracy? Ethnic composition is often thought to affect democracy by means of its influence on the probability of violent civil conflict.

In this article, we critique the Eurocentric character of security studies as it has developed since World War II.

A growing number of international relations scholars argue that intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) promote peace.

How does the resource base of a rebel group impact its membership, structure, and behavior?

The dominant (though contested) wisdom among international relations scholars is that military officers tend to be more cautious than their civilian counterparts about initiating the use of force....