Security Studies (journal)

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Security Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal covering international relations published by Routledge that was established in 1991. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.864.

List of issues

Volume 22 2013

Issue 4 2013 (pages 573-ebi)

The Color of Threat: Race, Threat Perception, and the Demise of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902–1923), Zoltán I. Búzás, pp 573-606

Race, Status, and Japanese Revisionism in the Early 1930s, Steven Ward, pp 607-639

Imaginary Nuclear Conflicts: Explaining Deterrence Policy Preference Formation, Zachary Zwald, pp 640-671

Hang Together or Hang Separately? Evaluating Rival Theories of Wartime Alliance Cohesion, Evan N. Resnick, pp 672-706

Wheeled Warriors: Explaining Variations in the Use of Violence by Private Security Companies in Iraq, Scott Fitzsimmons, pp 707-739

Fencing in Warfare: Threats, Punishment, and Intra-war Deterrence in Counterterrorism, Alex Wilner, pp 740-772

Did Power Politics Cause European Integration? Realist Theory Meets Qualitative Methods, Andrew Moravcsik, pp 773-790

Power, Patterns, and Process in European Union History, Craig Parsons, pp 791-801

Theory and Evidence in Europe United: A Response to My Critics, Sebastian Rosato, pp 802-820

Issue 3 2013 (pages 365-572)

Stuxnet and the Limits of Cyber Warfare, Jon R. Lindsay, pp 365-404

Tying Hands Behind Closed Doors: The Logic and Practice of Secret Reassurance, Keren Yarhi-Milo, pp 405-435

Scarce Differences: Toward a Material and Systemic Foundation for Offensive and Defensive Realism, Eric J. Hamilton and Brian C. Rathbun, pp 436-465

How Al Qaeda Innovates, Assaf Moghadam, pp 466-497

To Coerce or Reward? Theorizing Wedge Strategies in Alliance Politics, Yasuhiro Izumikawa, pp 498-531

Arms Production in the Global Village: Options for Adapting to Defense-Industrial Globalization, Marc R. Devore, pp 532-572

Issue 2 2013 (pages 153-364)

Do Leaders Matter and How Would We Know?, Robert Jervis, pp 153-179

The Puzzle of Personalist Performance: Iraqi Battlefield Effectiveness in the Iran-Iraq War, Caitlin Talmadge, pp 180-221

Flipping the Switch: Combat, State Building, and Junior Officers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Thomas Meyer, pp 222-258

The Political Effectiveness of Non-State Violence: A Two-Level Framework to Transform a Deceptive Debate, Peter Krause, pp 259-294

A Leap of Faith: When and How Ex-Combatants Resort to Violence, Anders Themnér, pp 295-329

Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony, Zachary Selden, pp 330-364

Issue 1 2013 (pages 1-151)

The Primacy of Premodern History, Jakub Grygiel, pp 1-32

Counterfeit Diplomacy and Mobilization in Democracies, Evan Braden Montgomery, pp 33-67

War and/of Words: Constructing WMD in US Foreign Policy, Michelle Bentley, pp 68-97

Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States, Giorgi Gvalia, David Siroky, Bidzina Lebanidze & Zurab Iashvili, pp 98-131

The Enduring Vulnerabilities of Oil Markets, Michael Levi, pp 132-138

Enduring Resilience: How Oil Markets Handle Disruptions, Eugene Gholz & Daryl G. Press, pp 139-147

Volume 21 2012

Issue 4 2012 (pages 557-ebi)

Why States No Longer Declare War, Tanisha M. Fazal, pp 557-593

Democracy, Deception, and Entry into War, Dan Reiter, pp 594-623

Fighting to the Finish: Democracy and Commitment in Coalition War, Ajin Choi, pp 624-653

Transaction Costs and the Establishment of the European Security and Defense Policy, Moritz Weiss, pp 654-682

Understanding Maritime Piracy Syndicate Operations, Justin V. Hastings, pp 683-721

Issue 3 2012 (pages 369-555)

Why We Needed Audience Costs and What We Need Now, Kenneth A. Schultz, pp 369-375

Audience Cost Theory and Its Audiences, Branislav L. Slantchev, pp 376-382

Coercive Threats, Audience Costs, and Case Studies, Jack S. Levy, pp 383-390

Still Looking for Audience Costs, Erik Gartzke & Yonatan Lupu, pp 391-397

Audience Costs Are Toys, Jonathan Mercer, pp 398-404

A Comment on the Comments, Marc Trachtenberg, pp 405-415

Missed Ideological Opportunities and George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern Policies, Mark L. Haas, pp 416-454

The Offshore Balancing Thesis Reconsidered: Realism, the Balance of Power in Europe, and America's Decision for War in 1917, Galen Jackson, pp 455-489

How Democracies Respond to Terrorism: Regime Characteristics, Symbolic Power and Counterterrorism, Arie Perliger, pp 490-528

The Trouble with Targeted Killing, Stephanie Carvin, 529-555

Issue 2 2012 (pages 153-367)

Undermining Adversaries: Unipolarity, Threat Perception, and Negative Balancing Strategies after the Cold War, Kai He, pp 154-191

System Structure and State Strategy: Adding Hedging to the Menu, Brock F. Tessman, pp 192-231

Long-Term Consequences of Aggressive Diplomacy: European Relations after Austrian Crimean War Threats, Robert F. Trager, pp 232-265

Which Afghanistan? Military, Humanitarian, and State-Building Identities in the Afghan Theater, Karsten Friis, pp 266-300

Triadic Deterrence: Coercing Strength, Beaten by Weakness, Boaz Atzili & Wendy Pearlman, pp 301-335

Fighting for Standing or Standing to Fight?, Robert Jervis, pp 336-344

Strong Arguments, Weak Evidence, Richard K. Betts, pp 345-351

Why Nations Fight: Spirit, Identity, and Imagined Community, Edward Rhodes, pp 352-361

The Causes of War: A Reply to My Critics, Richard Ned Lebow, pp 362-367

Issue 1 2012 (pages 1-152)

Audience Costs: An Historical Analysis, Marc Trachtenberg, pp 3-42

Competing for Change: Regime Transition, Intrastate Competition, and Violence, John Gledhill, pp 43-82

What Determines Military Victory? Testing the Modern System, Ryan Grauer & Michael C. Horowitz, pp 83-112

Toward an International Relations Theory of National Innovation Rates, Mark Z. Taylor, pp 113-152

Volume 20 2011

Issue 4 2011 (pages 491-ebi)

Sacred Time and Conflict Initiation, Ron E. Hassner, pp 491-520

We will not Swallow This Bitter Fruit: Theorizing a Diplomacy of Anger, Todd H. Hall, pp 521-555

Manpower and Counterinsurgency: Empirical Foundations for Theory and Doctrine, Jeffrey A. Friedman, pp 556-591

Misreading Islam in Iraq: Secular Misconceptions and British Foreign Policy, Stacey Gutkowski, pp 592-623

The Arms Collaboration Dilemma: Between Principal-Agent Dynamics and Collective Action Problems, Marc R. De Vore, pp 624-662

A Casualty of Kinetic Warfare: Military Research, Development, and Acquisition for Biodefense, Frank L. Smith III, pp 663-696

Issue 3 2011 (pages 303-489)

Bombs, Ballots, and Coercion: The Madrid Bombings, Electoral Politics, and Terrorist Strategy, Tom Dannenbaum, pp 303-349

Why Alliances Entangle But Seldom Entrap States, Tongfi Kim, pp 350-377

Democracy, Regional Security Institutions, and Rivalry Mitigation: Evidence From Europe, South America, and Asia, Brigitte Weiffen, Matthias Dembinski, Andreas Hasenclever, Katja Freistein & Makiko Yamauchi, pp 378-415

Dilemmas About Security Dilemmas, Robert Jervis, pp 416-423

Realists as Idealists, John Mearsheimer, pp 424-430

Two States, Two Types, Two Actions, James D. Fearon, pp 431-440

Rationalist Theories of International Politics and the Problem of the Future, Dale C. Copeland, pp 441-450

Mission Impossible: Measuring the Offense-Defense Balance with Military Net Assessment, Keir A. Lieber, pp 451-459

Rational Theory for a Bygone Era, Randall L. Schweller, pp 460-468

Defending rtip , Without Offending Unnecessarily, Charles L. Glaser, pp 469-489

Issue 2 2011 (pages 141-302)

Avoiding Audience Costs: Domestic Political Accountability and Concessions in Crisis Diplomacy, Jonathan N. Brown & Anthony S. Marcum, pp 141-170

Intraethnic Dominance and Control: Violence Against Co-Ethnics in the Early Sri Lankan Civil War, Jannie Lilja & Lisa Hultman, pp 171-197

Rivalry and Rapprochement in Early Cold War Central America, Christopher Darnton, pp 198-237

Crises as Signals of Strength: The Significance of Affect in Close Allies’ Relationships, Lucile Eznack, pp 238-265

Value Judgment: Why Do Americans Support Israel?, Michael J. Koplow, pp 266-302

Issue 1 2011 (pages 1-139)

Knowing the Unknown Unknowns: Misplaced Certainty and the Onset of War, Jennifer Mitzen & Randall L. Schweller, pp 2-35

Explaining the Awakening: Engagement, Publicity, and the Transformation of Iraqi Sunni Political Attitudes, Marc Lynch, pp 36-72

Proliferation Implications of Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Theory and a Case Study of Tito's Yugoslavia, Jacques E. C. Hymans, pp 73-104

Untimely Russia: Hysteresis in Russian-Western Relations over the Past Millennium, Iver B. Neumann & Vincent Pouliot, pp 105-137

Volume 19 2010

Issue 4 2010 (pages 591-717)

Hierarchy and Legitimacy in International Systems: The Tribute System in Early Modern East Asia, David C. Kang, pp 591-622

How External Intervention Made the Sovereign State, Ja Ian Chong, pp 623-655

Identity, Insecurity, and Great Power Politics:The Tragedy of German Naval Ambition Before the First World War, Michelle Murray, pp 656-688

State Socialization and Structural Realism, Cameron G. Thies, pp 689-717

Issue 3 2010 (pages 375-590)

Necessary Illusions: Misperception, Cooperation, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Eric Grynaviski, pp 376-406

From NATO to ESDP: A Social Constructivist Analysis of German Strategic Adjustment after the End of the Cold War, Felix Berenskoetter & Bastian Giegerich, pp 407-452

Protecting “The Prize”: Oil and the U.S. National Interest, Eugene Gholz & Daryl G. Press, pp 453-485

Models of Crisis Decision Making and the 1990–91 Gulf War, Jonathan Monten & Andrew Bennett, pp 486-520

Democratization, Instability, and War: Israel's 2006 Conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah, Evan Braden Montgomery & Stacie L. Pettyjohn, pp 521-544

Major Combat Operations and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Plan Challe in Algeria, 1959–1960, Christopher Griffin, pp 555-589

Issue 2 2010 (pages 199-374)

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Performative Power and the Strategy of Conventional and Nuclear Defusing, Emanuel Adler, pp 199-229

Private Security and Democracy: Lessons from the US in Iraq, Deborah Avant & Lee Sigelman, pp 230-265

Overt Peace, Covert War?: Covert Intervention and the Democratic Peace, Alexander B. Downes & Mary Lauren Lilley, pp 266-306

The Limits of Diversion: Rethinking Internal and External Conflict, M. Taylor Fravel, pp 307-341

Pierre Bourdieu and the Birth of European Defense, Frédéric Mérand, pp 342-374

Issue 1 2010 (pages 1-197)

Is Anybody Not an (International Relations) Liberal?, Brian C. Rathbun, pp 2-25

Explaining Changes in U.S. Grand Strategy: 9/11, the Rise of Offensive Liberalism, and the War in Iraq, Benjamin Miller, pp 26-65

Is this Paper Dangerous? Balancing Secrecy and Openness in Counterterrorism, Jacob N. Shapiro & David A. Siegel, pp 66-98

Terrorism and Party Systems in the States of India, James A. Piazza, pp 99-123

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy, Gautam Mukunda, pp 124-159

Why Some States Participate in UN Peace Missions While Others Do Not: An Analysis of Civil-Military Relations and Its Effects on Latin America's Contributions to Peacekeeping Operations, Arturo C. Sotomayor Velázquez, pp 160-195

See also

• List of scholarly journals in international relations

External links

• Official website
• Print: ISSN 0963-6412
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