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Chapter 2. This essay examines the effect of the state's institutionalization of Islam in governing and the legal system on regime type. The influence of the institutionalization of Islam is compared to the effect of other economic, institutional, and cultural determinants of re…

To what extent does the regime type of a country impact its ability to win an international war? To answer this question one must first understand how nations wage wars. I conceptualize state leaders as asset managers who gather, leverage, and deploy a state's main asset–its pop…