Leading scholars incorporate domestic and international aims, choices, factors, and processes to explore the advantages of crossing methodological and analytical boundaries to gain a better understanding of international relations. They examine the complexity of international affairs and consider how scholars should best study it.

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HARVEY STARR is the Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in International Affairs and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA.

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Introduction: The Future Study of International Relations, Two-Level Games, and Internal-External Linkages; H.Starr Crossing Boundaries: Levels of Analysis When Are Governments Able to Reach Negotiated Settlement Agreements? An Analysis of Dispute Resolution in Territorial Disputes, 1919-95; T.Allee & P.Huth A Meso-Scopic View of International Political Economy: World Cities; D.Sylvan Crossing Boundaries: Domestic-External Dynamics, Democracy, and Peace: Which Comes First; Z.Maoz Confirming the Liberal Peace with Analyses of Directed Dyads, 1885-2001; J.Oneal Democracy and the Renewal of Civil War; R.Licklider Democratic Peace and Integration: Synergies Across Levels of Analysis; H.Starr Crossing Boundaries: Domestic-External Dynamics and Foreign Policy Tough Talk, Public Predispositions, and Military Action: Reassessing the Rally-Round-the-Flag-Phenomenon; S.Murray Blank Check or Marching Orders? Public Opinion and the Presidential Use of Force; D.Brule & A.Mintz Triangulating Civil Peace; A.Zinn Constraints and Determinants: Structure, Purpose, and Foreign Policy; A.Stein Crossing Boundaries: From Analysis to Policy Divided We Stand: Political Partisanship and Military Force; M.Nincic The Great Powers and the UN Security Council: The Futile Search for Collective Security in the Charter and on Iraq; I.Hurd Crossing Boundaries From Ethics to Policy Principles Under Pressure: Just War Doctrine and American Anti-Terror Strategy After 9/11; D.Kinsella Strategic Logic and the Ethics of Killing: From Dresden to the Gulf Wars; B.Hehir