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1. The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States
Branislav L. Slantchev
American Political Science Review, Vol. 47, No. 1. (March, 2003), pp. 123-135.
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2. The Principle of Convergence in Wartime Negotiations
Branislav L. Slantchev
American Political Science Review, Vol. 47, No. 4. (December, 2003), pp. 621-632.
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3. How Initiators End Their Wars: The Duration of Warfare and the Terms of Peace
Branislav L. Slantchev
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4. (October, 2004), pp. 813-829.
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4. The Political Economy of Simultaneous Transitions: An Empirical Test of Two Models
Branislav L. Slantchev
Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 2. (June, 2005), pp. 279-294.
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5. Probabilistic Causality, Selection Bias, and the Logic of the Democratic Peace
Branislav L. Slantchev, Anna Alexandrova, Erik Gartzke
American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 3. (August, 2005), pp. 459-462.
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6. Territory and Commitment: The Concert of Europe as Self-Enforcing Equilibrium
Branislav L. Slantchev
Security Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4. (October, 2005), pp. 565-606.
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7. Military Coercion in Interstate Crises
Branislav L. Slantchev
American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 4. (November, 2005), pp. 533-547.
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8. Politicians, the Media, and Domestic Audience Costs
Branislav L. Slantchev
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2. (June, 2006), pp. 445-477.
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9. The Armed Peace: A Punctuated Equilibrium Theory of War
Bahar Leventoğlu, Branislav L. Slantchev
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 51, No. 4. (October, 2007), pp. 755-771.
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10. Choosing How to Cooperate: A Repeated Public-Goods Model of International Relations
Randall Stone, Branislav L. Slantchev, Tamar London
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 4. (July, 2008), pp. 335-362.
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11. Feigning Weakness
Branislav L. Slantchev
International Organization, Vol. 64, No. 3. (July, 2010), pp. 357-388.
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12. Mutual Optimism as a Rationalist Cause of War
Branislav L. Slantchev, Ahmer Tarar
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 55, No. 1. (January, 2011), pp. 135-148.
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13. Audience Cost Theory and Its Audiences
Branislav L. Slantchev
Security Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3. (August, 2012), pp. 376-382.
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14. Borrowed Power: Debt Finance and the Resort to Arms
Branislav L. Slantchev
American Political Science Review, Vol. 106, No. 4. (November, 2012), pp. 787-809.
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15. Abiding by the Vote: Between-Groups Conflict in International Collective Action
Christina J. Schneider, Branislav L. Slantchev
International Organization, Vol. 67, No. 4. (October, 2013), pp. 759-796.
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16. The Guardianship Dilemma: Regime Security through and from the Armed Forces
R. Blake McMahon, Branislav L. Slantchev
American Political Science Review, Vol. 109, No. 2. (May, 2015), pp. 297-313.
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17. On the Proper Use of Game-Theoretic Models in Conflict Studies
Branislav L. Slantchev
Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, Vol. 23, No. 4. (July, 2017), pp. 1-14.
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18. The Domestic Politics of International Cooperation: Germany and the European Debt Crisis
Christina J. Schneider, Branislav L. Slantchev
International Organization, Vol. 72, No. 1. (Forthcoming, 2018), pp. 1-31.
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19. The Authoritarian Wager: Political Action and the Sudden Collapse of Repression
Branislav L. Slantchev, Kelly S. Matush
Comparative Political Studies (May, 2019).
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