Research

Books and Monographs

Reiter, Dan (ed.). 2017. The Sword’s Other Edge: Tradeoffs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reiter, Dan. 2009. How Wars End. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Reiter, Dan. 2006. Preventive War and Its Alternatives: The Lessons of History. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam. 2002. Democracies at War. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Reiter, Dan. 1996. Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars. Cornell: Cornell University Press.

Articles and Research Notes in Refereed Journals

Jud, Stefano and Dan Reiter. 2023. “Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations.” International Interactions 49(6): 904-934. doi: 10.1080/03050629.2023.2264464. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2023. “Command and Military Effectiveness in Rebel and Hybrid Battlefield Coalitions.” Journal of Strategic Studies 45(2): 211-233. doi: 10.1080/01402390.2021.2002692. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Scott Wolford. 2022. “Gender, Sexism, and War.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 34(1): 59-77. doi: 10.1177/09516298211061151. [pdf]

Villa Danielle, Daniel Arnon and Dan Reiter. 2022. “Causes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change: The Signal of Economic Expropriation.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(4-5): 651-676. doi: 10.1177/00220027211070604. [pdf]

Greenhill, Brian and Dan Reiter. 2022. “Naming and Shaming, Government Messaging, and Backlash Effects: Experimental Evidence from the Convention Against Torture.” Journal of Human Rights 21(4): 399-418. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2021.2011710. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2021. “Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens.” International Studies Quarterly 65(3): 582-593. doi: 10.1093/isq/sqab061. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Paul Poast. 2021. “The Truth About Tripwires: Why Small Force Deployments Do Not Deter Aggression.” Texas National Security Review 4(3). doi: 10.26153/tsw/13989.

Reiter, Dan. 2020. “Avoiding the Coup-Proofing Dilemma: Consolidating Political Control While Maximizing Military Power.” Foreign Policy Analysis 16(3): 312-331. doi: 10.1093/fpa/oraa001. [pdf]

Fjestul, Joshua C. and Dan Reiter. 2019. “Explaining Incompleteness and Conditionality in Alliance Agreements.” International Interactions 45(6): 976-1002. doi: 10.1093/fpa/oraa001. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and William A. Wagstaff. 2018. “Leadership and Military Effectiveness.” Foreign Policy Analysis 14(4): 490-511. doi: 10.1093/fpa/orx003. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2018. “Unifying the Study of the Causes and Duration of Wars.” Polity 50(2): 168-177. doi: 10.1086/696288. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan, Allan C. Stam, and Michael C. Horowitz. 2016. “A Revised Look at Interstate Wars, 1816–2007.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 60(5): 956–76. doi: 10.1177/0022002714553107.

Reiter, Dan, Allan C. Stam, and Michael C. Horowitz. 2016a. “A Deeper Look at Interstate War Data: Interstate War Data Version 1.1.” Research & Politics 3(4). doi: 10.1177/2053168016683840. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2015. “Should We Leave Behind the Subfield of International Relations?.” Annual Review of Political Science 18: 481-499. doi: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-053013-041156. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2015. “The Positivist Study of Gender and International Relations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(7): 1301-1326. doi: 10.1177/0022002714560351. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2014. “Security Commitments and Nuclear Proliferation.” Foreign Policy Analysis 10(1): 61-80. doi: 10.1111/fpa.12004. [pdf]

Mettler, Simon A. and Dan Reiter. 2013. “Ballistic Missiles and International Conflict.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 57(5): 854-880. doi: 10.1177/00220027124537. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2012. “Democracy, Deception, and Entry into War.” Security Studies 21(4): 594-623. doi: 10.1080/09636412.2012.734229. [pdf]

Wolford, Scott, Dan Reiter, Clifford J. Carrubba. 2011. “Information, commitment, and war.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(4): 556-579. doi: 10.1177/00220027103939. [pdf]

Goran Peic and Dan Reiter. 2011. “Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, State Power and Civil War Onset, 1920–2004.” British Journal of Political Science 41(3): 453-475. doi: 10.1017/S0007123410000426. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2011. “Democratic Aggression and the Search for Victory.” St Antony’s International Review 7: 172-177.

Reiter, Dan and John M. Schuessler. 2010. “FDR, US Entry into World War II, and Selection Effects Theory.” International Security 35(2): 176-185. doi: 10.1162/isec_c_00017.

Reiter, Dan. 2010. “A Lack of Trust: The American Decision to Escalate the Korean War.” 21st Century International Review 1(2) [in Chinese].

Reiter, Dan, Allan C. Stam, and Alexander B. Downes. 2009. “Another Skirmish in the Battle over Democracies and War.” International Security 34(2): 194-204. doi: 10.1162/isec.2009.34.2.194.

Lo, Nigel, Barry Hashimoto, and Dan Reiter. 2008. “Ensuring Peace: Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Postwar Peace Duration, 1914–2001.” International Organization 62(4): 717-736. doi: 10.1017/s0020818308080259. [pdf]

Wade, Sara Jackson and Dan Reiter. 2007. “Does Democracy Matter? Regime Type and Suicide Terrorism.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 51(2): 329-348. doi: 10.1177/0022002706298137. [pdf]

Lai, Brian and Dan Reiter. 2006. “Rally ‘round the Union Jack? Public Opinion and the Use of Force in the United Kingdom, 1948–2001.” International Studies Quarterly 49(2): 255-272. doi: 10.1111/j.0020-8833.2005.00344.x. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2006. “Preventive Attacks Against Nuclear Programs and the “Success” at Osiraq.” Nonproliferation Review 12(2): 355-371. doi: 10.1080/10736700500379008. [pdf]

Chapman, Terrence L. and Dan Reiter. 2004. “The United Nations Security Council and the Rally’round the Flag Effect.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 48(6): 886-909. doi: 10.1177/0022002704269353.

Reiter, Dan. 2003. “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War.” Perspectives on Politics 1(1): 27-43. doi: 10.1017/s1537592703000033. [pdf]

Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., Dan Reiter, and Christopher Zorn. 2003. “Nonproportional Hazards and Event History Analysis in International Relations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 47(1): 33-53. doi: 10.1177/0022002702239510.

Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam. 2003. “Identifying the Culprit: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Dispute Initiation.” American Political Science Review 97(2): 333-337. doi: 10.1017/s0003055403000704. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Allan C. Stam. 2003. “Understanding Victory: Why Political Institutions Matter.” International Security 28(1): 168-179. doi: 10.1162/016228803322428027. Reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al, eds, Do Democracies Win Their Wars? (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), 163-174. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Erik R. Tillman. 2002. “Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict.” Journal of Politics 64(3): 810-826. doi: 10.1111/0022-3816.00147. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 2001. “Does Peace Nature Democracy?.” Journal of Politics 63(3): 935-948. doi: 10.1111/0022-3816.00095.

Horowitz, Michael and Dan Reiter. 2001. “When does Aerial Bombing Work? Quantitative Empirical Tests, 1917-1999.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 45(2): 147-173. doi: 10.1177/0022002701045002001. [pdf]

Waterman Harvey, Dessie Zagorcheva and Dan Reiter. 2001. “NATO and Democracy.” International Security 26(3): 221-235. doi: 10.1162/016228801753399772.

Reiter, Dan. 2001. “Why NATO Enlargement Does not Spread Democracy.” International Security 26(4): 41-67. doi: 10.1162/01622880151091899. [pdf]

Lai, Brian and Dan Reiter. 2000. “Democracy, Political Similarity, and International Alliances, 1816-1992.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 44(2): 203-227. doi: 10.1177/0022002700044002003. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Curtis Meek. 1999. “Determinants of Military Strategy, 1903–1994: A Quantitative Empirical Test.” International Studies Quarterly 43(2): 363-387. doi: 10.1111/0020-8833.00124. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 1999. “Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests, 1903-1992.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 43(3): 366-387. doi: 10.1177/002200279904300300. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Allan C. Stam. 1998. “Democracy, War Initiation, and Victory.” American Political Science Review 92(2): 377-389. doi: 10.1515/9781400824458-004. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan and Allan C. Stam. 1998. “Democracy and Battlefield Military Effectiveness.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(243): 259-277. doi: 10.1177/0022002798042003003. [pdf]

Rousseau, David, Christopher Gelpi, Dan Reiter, and Paul K. Huth. 1996. “Assessing the Dyadic Nature of the Democratic Peace, 1918-1988.” American Political Science Review 90(3): 512-533. doi: 10.2307/2082606. [pdf]

Reiter, Dan. 1995. “Political Structure and Foreign Policy Learning: Are Democracies More Likely to Act on the Lessons of History?” International Interactions 21(1): 39-62. doi: 10.1080/03050629508434859.

Reiter, Dan. 1995. “Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Preemptive Wars Almost Never Happen.” International Security 20(3): 5-34. doi: 10.2307/2539227.

Reiter, Dan. 1994. “Learning, Realism, and Alliances: The Weight of the Shadow of the Past,” World Politics 46 (July 1994): 490-526. doi: 10.2307/2950716. Reprinted in Christine Ingebritsen, Iver Neumann, Sieglinde Gstöhle, and Jessica Beyer, eds., Small States in International Relations (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006, 231-272). [pdf]

Edited Volumes and Similar Publications

Reiter, Dan. 2019. “Replicating and Improving Quantitative War Data,” SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2019. doi:10.4135/9781526465993.

Reiter, Dan. 2017. “Foreign-Imposed Regime Change.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.335

Reiter, Dan. 2017. “Is democracy a cause of peace?.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. doi:: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.287.

Reiter, Dan and Allan C. Stam. 2008. “Democracy, Peace, and War”, in Donald A. Wittman, and Barry R. Weingast (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Oxford Academic Press.

Reiter, Dan. 2007. “Nationalism and military effectiveness: post-Meiji Japan,” in Risa A. Brooks and Elizabeth A. Stanley (eds.), Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness. Stanford University Press. 27-54.

Reiter, Dan. 2006. “Preventive attacks against nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs: The track record,” in William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell (eds), Hitting First: Preventive Force in US Security Strategy. University of Pittsburgh Press. 27-44.