Dyads, Rationalist Explanations for War, and the Theoretical Underpinnings of IR Theory
Journal: DukeSpace (Duke University)
Year: 2015

&lt;p&gt;Critiquing dyads as the unit of analysis in statistical work has become increasingly prominent; a number of scholars have demonstrated that ignoring the interdependencies and selection effects among dyads can bias our inference. My dissertation argues that the problem is even more serious. The bargaining model relies on the assumption that bargaining occurs between two states in isolation. When we relax this assumption one of the most crucial findings of these bargaining models vanishes