Studying Leaders and Military Conflict Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The Author(s) 2018. This article introduces the special feature Leaders, Crisis Behavior, and International Conflict. Individual leaders play a central role in world politics. Yet, for the last several decades, international relations scholarship has downplayed or ignored leaders, focusing instead on system-wide variables and domestic political institutions. A new wave of research, however, has helped to reintroduce the leader-level back into models of international politics. The papers that constitute this special feature represent some of the cutting-edge work in this area. This introductory paper traces the evolution of research on leaders in international relations and provides a conceptual framework that highlights different approaches to the study of leaders. It also distills several key themes that emerge from the papers, in addition to offering directions for future research.

published proceedings

  • Journal of Conflict Resolution

altmetric score

  • 41.18

author list (cited authors)

  • Horowitz, M. C., & Fuhrmann, M.

citation count

  • 22

complete list of authors

  • Horowitz, Michael C||Fuhrmann, Matthew

publication date

  • November 2018