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AbstractWhy do some actors in international politics display remarkable persistence in wartime, while others "cut and run" at the first sign of trouble? I offer a behavioral theory of resolve, suggesting that variation in time and risk preferences can help explain why some actors display more resolve than others. I test the theory experimentally in the context of public opinion about military interventions. The results not only help explain why certain types of costs of war loom larger for certain types of actors but also shed light on some of the behavioral revolution's contributions more broadly.

This article sketches a neo-Bourdieusianframework for rethinking racial domination. It proposes that we need to historicize the notion of "race";todislodge the United States from its Archimedean position; to forsake the logic of the trial; andto disaggregateethnoracial phenomena into the "elementary forms" of racial domination, categorization, discrimination, segregation, seclusion, and violence. This approach makes it possible to grasp "race" as a denegated modality of ethnicity and to uncoverhow a system of ethnoracialclassificationis mapped onto a system of ethnoracialstratification, that is, to grasp "race" as a particular modality of "group-making."

AbstractAn underappreciated opportunity for evaluators is to develop compelling, defensible, empirical findings that challenge a common wisdom. Policymakers are often highly receptive to such new insights.