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This work provides original, detailed narrative descriptions of what occurred in each recorded MID. Organized by rivalry and within geographic regions, these case descriptions, written specifically for this work, are an essential resource for those interested in the causes, histories, and consequences of international conflicts.

1. Introduction 1. - Part I. International Borders 7. - 2. Territorial issues and international conflict 9. - 3. Individual, state, and territorial issues 25. - Part II. State Development 109. - 4. Territorial threats and political behaviour 47. - 5. Territorial threats, standing armies, and state repression 69. - 6. Territorial threats and domestic institutions 89. - Part III. The Territorial Peace 109. - 7. Territorial peace among neighbours 111. - 8. Territorial peace and negotiated compromises 135. - 9. Territorial peace and victory in conflict 149. - 10. Final thoughts 165

The inaugural title in the Correlates of War series from CQ Press, this 2-volume set catalogs every official interstate alliance signed from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 through the early twenty-first century, ranking it among the most thorough and accessible reviews of formal military treaties ever published. Maps and introductions showcase the effects of alliances on the region or international system in century-specific chapters, while individual narratives and summaries of alliances simultaneously provide basic information, such as dates and member states, as well as essential insights

This article explains the empirical connection between dyadic capability differences and international conflict as a consequence of how, when, and where states enter the international system. State capabilities are largely static, and, since states enter the system in geographic clusters, the processes of state maturation affect contiguous and regionally proximate states similarly. This makes dyadic capability differences static as well. The lack of change in capability differences over time suggests that the parity-conflict relationship is largely a product of the factors associated with state system entry. Indeed, as I demonstrate, several different proxies for the conditions of state system entry separately eliminate any statistical relationship between parity and militarized dispute onset, 1816–2001. I also find no relationship between parity and the wars that have occurred during that same time period. These results have a number of implications for the role of power and capabilities in explaining international conflict.

"The Territorial Peace: A Research Program" published on by Oxford University Press.

This paper provides a multifaceted classification of the primary issue for each state involved in territorial disputes between 1816 and 2001. I differentiate principally between cases in which ownership of the territory is disputed and cases over which status quo distributions of territory are acknowledged. I also consider the location of disputed territories—homeland vs other territories—and the types of actions in the dispute. This classification scheme produces categories such as (1) disputed ownership, (2) general border issues, (3) opportunity-based conflict, (4) state-system changes, (5) border violations, and (6) fishing rights and the hot pursuit of rebels. My analyses find that there is significant variation across types of territorial disputes, and serious conflicts are overwhelmingly concentrated in fights over bordering territories with disputed ownership claims. I suggest several ways in which this classification scheme can be used in future research.