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Thrilled that "Tilly Goes to Church" is now available in #FirstView @apsrjournal! The article argues that contrary to bellicist accounts, war did not consolidate states in Europe.
Link here: cup.org/3KSSbc3
Link here: cup.org/3KSSbc3
Instead, medieval popes launched wars, alliances, and crusades against secular rulers, to ensure their own autonomy and power. This papal conflict is closely associated with the rise in the number of states and statelets starting in the 12th century. 
This fragmentation was persistent: as rulers fought the papacy, towns and nobles grabbed authority, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. Even when the papacy weakened by the 15th century, the fragmentation remained.
THREAD for sovereign debt geeks (and others who care about how governments' financing choices matter for all the other things governments do....):
New paper from @goodhouses, @UNCPoliSci's Cameron Ballard-Rosa & I, at @IntOrgJournal (now #FirstView and ungated all month).
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New paper from @goodhouses, @UNCPoliSci's Cameron Ballard-Rosa & I, at @IntOrgJournal (now #FirstView and ungated all month).
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"Coming to Terms: the Politics of Sovereign Bond Denomination"
We're interested in how non-OECD governments structure their bond borrowing.
Borrowing terms -- the currency, maturity structure, interest rate, as well as legal provisions -- matter.
Why? [2]
We're interested in how non-OECD governments structure their bond borrowing.
Borrowing terms -- the currency, maturity structure, interest rate, as well as legal provisions -- matter.
Why? [2]
Bond terms affect the extent to which governments experience market-related pressures in the future...do they need to generate foreign exchange to repay? How often must they roll over debt?
We focus on currency denomination: do gov'ts borrow in domestic or foreign currency?
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We focus on currency denomination: do gov'ts borrow in domestic or foreign currency?
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So happy this review essay w/ @dshyde on regime type and IR is on #FirstView @IntOrgJournal. We've been working on this for a long, long time. Here’s a thread on where it came from, what we hope it does, and some still-forming thoughts on how it applies to the US-Iran crisis. 1/
We started from the premise that there was lots of new work on autocracies in IR (AIR) and revitalized interest in democracies in IR (DIR), but there wasn’t that much conversation between these literatures. 2/
And neither one was integrated into debates over international structure, norms, or economic trends (books by @SevaUT, @ConradCourtenay & @EmilyHRitter are exceptions!). 3/
