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Military Ethics and Measurement

April 13, 2026May 6, 2015 by Michael Flynn

I’m finally getting back to writing now that the first year is starting to wind down. To ease myself back into a routine I figured I would write a brief post about a recent episode of EconTalk, featuring Leonard Wong of the US Army War College. The episode’s title/description, “[O]n Honesty and Ethics in the … Read more

It’s not always the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Military Deployments Edition

October 30, 2014 by Michael A. Allen

During the Russian invasion of Crimea, I previously mentioned that I, Julie VanDusky-Allen, and Michael Flynn, were working on a research project that examined the effect that hosting varying amounts of foreign (i.e. US) troops has on the defense spending of local and regional governments. Earlier this week, that article became available in Foreign Policy Analysis’ Early View. If you … Read more

Calling All Martyrs: Recruitment Incentives & Terror Attack Casualties

April 13, 2026September 9, 2014 by Michael Flynn

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Graig R. Klein. Graig is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. His research focuses on domestic conflict, protest, and terrorism. This post is based on his article entitled “Ideology Isn’t Everything: Transnational Terrorism, Recruitment Incentives & Attack Casualties,” which is forthcoming in Terrorism … Read more

Relative Asymmetry

June 19, 2014 by Michael A. Allen

Image from Quantitative Peace research post

null0 Power is often the go-to solution for many puzzles in international relations, but it also presents as many questions as it seems to answer, if not more. One of the enduring puzzles in international relations deals with the relationship between powerful actors in the international system and weak actors; for many of our theories, … Read more

Military Deployments, Human Development, and Growth

April 13, 2026May 8, 2014 by Michael Flynn

The deployment of US military forces has received a bump in attention over the past year or two. Most recently, as Michael Allen has discussed, US military forces were deployed to Poland in response to the deteriorating situation in Ukraine. In 2011 President Obama sent 100 US military personnel to Uganda to help track Joseph … Read more

BRAINZ!… Zombie Movies and War, An Odd Correlation

April 13, 2026November 20, 2008 by Julie VanDusky-Allen

I have to admit, when I first read the post “War and Social
Upheaval Causes Spikes in Zombie Movie Production” , I was a bit skeptical
about the conclusion that was drawn dealing with the correlation between
war and the number of zombie movies produced in a given year. So I collected
data and ran a model. As it turns out, there is a statistically significant
relationship between the number of zombie movies produced and whether a war was
fought within a two year time period.

More after the jump…

Julie VanDusky-Allen

Julie VanDusky-Allen is at Boise State University and received her PhD in Political Science from Binghamton University in 2011. Her research focuses on institutional choice and development, political parties, the legislative process, and Latin American politics.