J Joseph Hewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Joseph Hewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Hewitt |
| SIGNATURE | HEWITT J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
In Defense of Ambition
Fragility creates the conditions for violent intrastate conflict. Its consequences contribute to global disorder and mounting threats to U.S. national security. Significant impediments to effective action in fragile states persist today, even with many years of policy attention and an emerging consensus about its centrality in causing armed conflict. Policy-makers across the U.S. interagency have yet to arrive at a shared consciousness about the …
International Crises and the Capitalist Peace
Recent research suggests that free markets and economic development contribute to a reduction in interstate conflict. This “capitalist peace” has been seen alternately to complement or to supplant the more well-known democratic peace effect. Here, we compare the behavior of democracies and capitalist dyads in the context of the Interstate Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset. The ICB data offers a number of advantages in assessing the conflict decisions…
Chapter Eight. Concepts and Choosing Populations
Chapter Six. Concepts and Selecting (on) the Dependent Variable
Conceptualizing Interstate Conflict
An essential, but often overlooked, role of concepts lies in how they constitute or define populations. Explicit choices made by researchers about concept structure are tied inextricably to the selection rule for identifying cases to include in analyses. Concept construction issues are absolutely crucial because the concept structure used interacts in various, usually hidden, ways with theories and hypotheses that researchers want to test. The co…
A Crisis-Density Formulation for Identifying Rivalries
This study reports the results of a project that identifies interstate rivalries through the repeated incidence of international crises using data from the International Crisis Behavior project. Despite the existence of other rivalry data collections, a crisis-density population of rivalries has the potential for making important new contributions to this growing literature. The article discusses several justifications for this new formulation fo…
Contingency, Fragility, Difference
Dyadic Processes and International Crises
This study reports the results of a project to construct dyadic-level data from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project data collection. The project defines coding rules used in identifying crisis dyads and applies them to identify 766 crisis dyads for the period from 1918 to 1994. This research makes it possible to perform a careful comparison of crisis dyads to dyads involved in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). The comparison ind…
Engaging International Data in the Classroom
The challenges of teaching quantitative research methods in international relations are well documented. The key to igniting interest and engaging students lies in creating a participatory learning environment in the classroom. This article discusses these challenges and describes a new piece of software that may be helpful in that regard. The ICB Interactive Data Library, or the ICB Library for short, enhances access to the information available…
Assessing the statistical rarity of wars between democracies
The ‘small numbers objection’ to the democratic peace claims that the relative rarity of militarized conflict between democracies is due to their small numbers coupled with the infrequency of violent interstate conflict, not to an alleged pacifying effect of democracy. This study assesses this objection directly by treating the number of militarized disputes between democracies as a random variable. Since the historical record provides only one o…
One-Sided Crises in The International System
This article examines some unique features of a subset of crises in the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset, involving cases in which nations perceived themselves to be in foreign policy crises when their primary adversaries did not. These `one-sided crises' are expected to differ from normal or `two-sided crises' in a number of ways, especially in terms of the likelihood of crisis violence. The absence of a shared perception about the li…
Democracies in international crisis
One of the most widely researched theoretical perspectives in international politics in recent years has been the so‐called theory of democratic peace. Although democracies may be no less prone than non‐democracies to engage in violence in pursuit of their interests, they rarely employ war as a means for resolving conflicts with other democracies. We extend the well‐known argument and propose that for nations locked in international crises, the p…
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
Dyadic Processes and International Crises
This study reports the results of a project to construct dyadic-level data from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project data collection. The project defines coding rules used in identifying crisis dyads and applies them to identify 766 crisis dyads for the period from 1918 to 1994. This research makes it possible to perform a careful comparison of crisis dyads to dyads involved in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). The comparison ind…
International Crises and the Capitalist Peace
Recent research suggests that free markets and economic development contribute to a reduction in interstate conflict. This “capitalist peace” has been seen alternately to complement or to supplant the more well-known democratic peace effect. Here, we compare the behavior of democracies and capitalist dyads in the context of the Interstate Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset. The ICB data offers a number of advantages in assessing the conflict decisions…
Democracies in international crisis
One of the most widely researched theoretical perspectives in international politics in recent years has been the so‐called theory of democratic peace. Although democracies may be no less prone than non‐democracies to engage in violence in pursuit of their interests, they rarely employ war as a means for resolving conflicts with other democracies. We extend the well‐known argument and propose that for nations locked in international crises, the p…
A Crisis-Density Formulation for Identifying Rivalries
This study reports the results of a project that identifies interstate rivalries through the repeated incidence of international crises using data from the International Crisis Behavior project. Despite the existence of other rivalry data collections, a crisis-density population of rivalries has the potential for making important new contributions to this growing literature. The article discusses several justifications for this new formulation fo…
Engaging International Data in the Classroom
The challenges of teaching quantitative research methods in international relations are well documented. The key to igniting interest and engaging students lies in creating a participatory learning environment in the classroom. This article discusses these challenges and describes a new piece of software that may be helpful in that regard. The ICB Interactive Data Library, or the ICB Library for short, enhances access to the information available…
One-Sided Crises in The International System
This article examines some unique features of a subset of crises in the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset, involving cases in which nations perceived themselves to be in foreign policy crises when their primary adversaries did not. These `one-sided crises' are expected to differ from normal or `two-sided crises' in a number of ways, especially in terms of the likelihood of crisis violence. The absence of a shared perception about the li…
Conceptualizing Interstate Conflict
An essential, but often overlooked, role of concepts lies in how they constitute or define populations. Explicit choices made by researchers about concept structure are tied inextricably to the selection rule for identifying cases to include in analyses. Concept construction issues are absolutely crucial because the concept structure used interacts in various, usually hidden, ways with theories and hypotheses that researchers want to test. The co…
Assessing the statistical rarity of wars between democracies
The ‘small numbers objection’ to the democratic peace claims that the relative rarity of militarized conflict between democracies is due to their small numbers coupled with the infrequency of violent interstate conflict, not to an alleged pacifying effect of democracy. This study assesses this objection directly by treating the number of militarized disputes between democracies as a random variable. Since the historical record provides only one o…
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
Democracies in international crisis
One of the most widely researched theoretical perspectives in international politics in recent years has been the so‐called theory of democratic peace. Although democracies may be no less prone than non‐democracies to engage in violence in pursuit of their interests, they rarely employ war as a means for resolving conflicts with other democracies. We extend the well‐known argument and propose that for nations locked in international crises, the p…
One-Sided Crises in The International System
This article examines some unique features of a subset of crises in the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset, involving cases in which nations perceived themselves to be in foreign policy crises when their primary adversaries did not. These `one-sided crises' are expected to differ from normal or `two-sided crises' in a number of ways, especially in terms of the likelihood of crisis violence. The absence of a shared perception about the li…
Engaging International Data in the Classroom
The challenges of teaching quantitative research methods in international relations are well documented. The key to igniting interest and engaging students lies in creating a participatory learning environment in the classroom. This article discusses these challenges and describes a new piece of software that may be helpful in that regard. The ICB Interactive Data Library, or the ICB Library for short, enhances access to the information available…
Assessing the statistical rarity of wars between democracies
The ‘small numbers objection’ to the democratic peace claims that the relative rarity of militarized conflict between democracies is due to their small numbers coupled with the infrequency of violent interstate conflict, not to an alleged pacifying effect of democracy. This study assesses this objection directly by treating the number of militarized disputes between democracies as a random variable. Since the historical record provides only one o…
Contingency, Fragility, Difference
Dyadic Processes and International Crises
This study reports the results of a project to construct dyadic-level data from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project data collection. The project defines coding rules used in identifying crisis dyads and applies them to identify 766 crisis dyads for the period from 1918 to 1994. This research makes it possible to perform a careful comparison of crisis dyads to dyads involved in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). The comparison ind…
Conceptualizing Interstate Conflict
An essential, but often overlooked, role of concepts lies in how they constitute or define populations. Explicit choices made by researchers about concept structure are tied inextricably to the selection rule for identifying cases to include in analyses. Concept construction issues are absolutely crucial because the concept structure used interacts in various, usually hidden, ways with theories and hypotheses that researchers want to test. The co…
A Crisis-Density Formulation for Identifying Rivalries
This study reports the results of a project that identifies interstate rivalries through the repeated incidence of international crises using data from the International Crisis Behavior project. Despite the existence of other rivalry data collections, a crisis-density population of rivalries has the potential for making important new contributions to this growing literature. The article discusses several justifications for this new formulation fo…
Chapter Eight. Concepts and Choosing Populations
Chapter Six. Concepts and Selecting (on) the Dependent Variable
International Crises and the Capitalist Peace
Recent research suggests that free markets and economic development contribute to a reduction in interstate conflict. This “capitalist peace” has been seen alternately to complement or to supplant the more well-known democratic peace effect. Here, we compare the behavior of democracies and capitalist dyads in the context of the Interstate Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset. The ICB data offers a number of advantages in assessing the conflict decisions…
In Defense of Ambition
Fragility creates the conditions for violent intrastate conflict. Its consequences contribute to global disorder and mounting threats to U.S. national security. Significant impediments to effective action in fragile states persist today, even with many years of policy attention and an emerging consensus about its centrality in causing armed conflict. Policy-makers across the U.S. interagency have yet to arrive at a shared consciousness about the …
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)