Publications

2026 Political Polarization and Compromise in Secession Politics1 Kristopher W. Ramsay · International Studies Quarterly · Scholar only — 2026 Propping Up Allies With Uncertain Prospects Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2024 Fanatical Peace: How Fundamental Disagreements Can Discourage Conflict Kristopher W. Ramsay · The Journal of Politics · Scholar only — 2024 Militarization, Negotiations and Conflict Kristopher W. Ramsay · Handbook of the Economics of Conflict · Scholar only 2 2024 Quantifying theory in politics: Identification, interpretation, and the role of structural methods Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Theoretical Politics · Scholar only 7 2024 The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost Kristopher W. Ramsay · Political Science Research and Methods · Scholar only · needs review 9 2023 Conservation for Sale: International Bargaining over Payment for Ecosystem Services Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2023 Mackerel Migration and the Undermining of International Fisheries Cooperation Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2023 The fish that ate an agreement: How migrating mackerel undermine international fisheries cooperation Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only 2 2023 The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans Kristopher W. Ramsay · European Security · Scholar only 3 2022 Third Party Intervention and Strategic Militarization Kristopher W. Ramsay · Quarterly Journal of Political Science 17 2021 Dyadic Conflict: Elites, Citizens, and War Kristopher W. Ramsay · The Journal of Politics 8 2021 Preventive War and Sovereign Debt Kristopher W. Ramsay · Conflict Management and Peace Science 8 2020 Applied Game Theory: An overview and first thoughts on the use of Game Theoretic Tools. Kristopher W. Ramsay · The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations 2 2019 Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Political Economy 81 2019 Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization Adam Meirowitz University of Utah Ma Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Political Economy · Scholar only — 2018 Transmission of Civil War Conflict through Trade Networks Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only 2 2018 Two-sided Unobservable Investment, Bargaining, and Efficiency Kristopher W. Ramsay · Review of Economic Design 0 2017 A Non-Speculation Theorem with Application to Committee Design Kristopher W. Ramsay · The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 1 2017 Gulliver Untied: Entry Deterrence in a Unipolar World Kristopher W. Ramsay · International Organization 16 2017 Information, Uncertainty, and War Kristopher W. Ramsay · Annual Review of Political Science 107 2017 Negotiations in Foreign Policy Kristopher W. Ramsay · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics 3 2016 Changing Capabilities, uncertainty, and the risk of war in crisis bargaining Kristopher W. Ramsay · Research & Politics 23 2016 princeton institute for international and regional studies Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2016 Who Wins The Peace? Elites, Citizens, and the Decision for War⇤ Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2014 Introducing Deterrence through Moral Hazard in Alliance Contracts Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Conflict Resolution 92 2014 The distribution of power and the risk of war in crisis bargaining Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only 3 2013 Credibility of Peaceful Agreements in Crisis Bargaining Kristopher W. Ramsay · Political Science Research and Methods 27 2013 Optimism and Speculation with Coordination Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2013 The Calculus of the Security Dilemma Kristopher W. Ramsay · Quarterly Journal of Political Science 49 2012 Evolution of Cooperation and Skew under Imperfect Information Kristopher W. Ramsay · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 33 2012 Investment, Bargaining, and Eciency Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2011 Cheap Talk Diplomacy, Voluntary Negotiations, and Variable Bargaining Power Kristopher W. Ramsay · International Studies Quarterly 132 2011 Credibility and Crisis Bargaining ∗ Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2011 Revisiting the Resource Curse: Natural Disasters, the Price of Oil, and Democracy Kristopher W. Ramsay · International Organization 258 2011 Summer 20 Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2011 The Value of Conflict Mediation Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2011 Uncertainty and Incentives in Crisis Bargaining Games Kristopher W. Ramsay · American Journal of Political Science 264 2010 Credibility and Retractable Offers in Crisis Bargaining Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2010 Outside Options and Burden-Sharing in Nonbinding Alliances Kristopher W. Ramsay · Political Research Quarterly 41 2010 When is Shuttle Diplomacy Worth the Commute? Information Sharing through Mediation Kristopher W. Ramsay · World Politics 134 2009 A statistical model of the ultimatum game Kristopher W. Ramsay · University of Rochester · Scholar only 27 2009 Mechanism Design Goes to War: Peaceful Outcomes with Interdependent and Correlated Types Kristopher W. Ramsay · Review of Economic Design 53 2008 Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Kristopher W. Ramsay · American Political Science Review 140 2008 Optimism in Bayesian Games with Mutual Actions Kristopher W. Ramsay · Scholar only — 2008 Settling it on the Field: Battlefield Events and War Termination Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Conflict Resolution 124 2008 Uncertainty about Relative Power and War Kristopher W. Ramsay · Princeton University · Scholar only 3 2007 Mutual Optimism and War Kristopher W. Ramsay · American Journal of Political Science 157 2006 The Common Priors Assumption: A comment on Bargaining and the Nature of War. Kristopher W. Ramsay · Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 2006 The Price of Oil and Democracy Kristopher W. Ramsay · Princeton, Princeton University · Scholar only 16