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Allan C. Stam

Daniel Webster Professor of Government
219 Silsby
Allan.Stam@dartmouth.edu

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B.A., Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. . .who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions - and spends himself in a worthy cause - who at best if he wins knows the thrill of high achievement - and if he fails at least fails while daring greatly - so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."  
---Theodore Roosevelt

Recent publications and presentations

  • "Divergent Beliefs in "Bargaining and the Nature of War": A Reply to Fay and Ramsay," with Alastair Smith, Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming, October 2006.
  • "Democracy, Peace, and War," with Dan Reiter, in Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Barry Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.
  • "Predicting the Length of the 2003 U.S.-Iraq War." with D. Scott Bennett, Foreign Policy Analysis Vol. 2: 2: 101-116: 2006.
  • "Leader Age, Regime Type, and Violent International Relations," with Michael Horowitz and Rose McDermott, Journal of Conflict Resolution, October 2005.
  • "When Likely Losers Go to War," with Alastair Smith, in New Direction for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce Russett, eds., Lexington Books, New York, 2005.
  • "The Bargaining and the Nature of War," with Alastair Smith, Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 2004.
  • "Political Institutions, Coercive Diplomacy, and the Duration of Economic Sanctions," with Fiona McGillivray, Journal of Conflict Resolution, April 2004.
  • "Mediation and Peacekeeping in a Random Walk Model of War," with Alastair Smith, International Studies Perspectives, December, 2003.
  • "Understanding Victory: Why Political Institutions Matter," with Dan Reiter, International Security, Vol. 28:1, Fall 2003.
  • "Identifying the Culprit: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Dispute Initiation," with Dan Reiter, American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, May, 2003.
  • The Behavioral Origins of War, University of Michigan Press, 2003.
  • Democracies at War, Princeton University Press, March 2002.
  • Power Transitions: Strategic Policies for the 21st Century, with R. Tammen, J. Kugler and D. Lemke Chatham House, forthcoming.
  • Win, Lose or Draw: Domestic Politics and the Crucible of War. University of Michigan Press, 1996.
  • "A Universal Test of an Expected Utility Theory of War," with S. Bennett, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 44, June, 2000.

Research interests

  • International relations
  • International security studies
  • Foreign policy public opinion

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Last Updated: 10/15/08