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Inference with Extremes: Accounting for Extreme Values in Count Regression Models 极值推理：计算计数回归模型中的极端值

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae137

David Randahl, Johan Vegelius

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Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash 质疑移民安全化：非政府组织、政府间组织和安全反弹

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae139

Jean-Pierre Murray

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Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade 处理国际法冲突：气候与贸易的微观研究

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae136

Manfred Elsig, Gabriele Spilker

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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes 民族主义、国际主义和干涉主义：海外兵役如何影响外交政策态度

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae127

Bradford Waldie

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience 优惠贸易协定和领导人的商业经验

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae129

Nicola Nones

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Causal Evidence for Theories of Contagious Civil Unrest 传染性内乱理论的因果证据

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae124

Rebekah Fyfe, Bruce Desmarais

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Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement 民主与全球经济参与的集群模式

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae130

ByungKoo Kim, Iain Osgood

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Transnationalism and Populist Networks in a Digital Era: Canada and the Freedom Convoy 数字时代的跨国主义与民粹主义网络：加拿大与自由车队

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae131

Jean-Christophe Boucher, Lauren Rutherglen, So Youn Kim

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Human Rights Promotion and Democratic Allies 促进人权与民主同盟

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae122

Yasuki Kudo

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Tribalocracy: Tribal Wartime Social Order and Its Transformation in Southern Syria 部落民主制：叙利亚南部部落战时社会秩序及其变革

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae133

Abdullah al-Jabassini

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