This dissertation asks why and under what conditions the US seeks allies for foreign military interventions and when multilateralism pays for a state with a unilateral option. It is not a study of whether to intervene or not, but rather the motivations and payoffs for hegemonic …
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Studies of J-curve phenomenon have evolved from the Marshall-Lerner condition to establish a direct link between trade balance and exchange rate. Due to the problem of aggregation bias, empirical studies of the J-curve further evolve from employing aggregate data to bilateral da…
Alliance diplomacy was the cornerstone of the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China in the era of Mao Zedong, but this extraordinary historical phenomenon has received little systematic study. The existing research on China's individual alliances is both fragmented an…
Why are opposition groups able to form alliances in their activism against the regime in some cases but not in others? Specifically, why did opposition groups in Pakistan engage in high levels of alliance building, regardless of ideological and other divides, while similar allia…
In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between legal systems, the rule of law, and states' cooperative and conflictual behavior. I analyze how domestic legal systems (common, civil, Islamic, etc.) influence a state's foreign policy behavior towards other states and int…