James H. Lebovic

TL;DR: The authors argued that "shaming" in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, through resolutions that explicitly criticized governments for their human rights records, provided substantive information about rights abuses and gave political cover for the World Bank and other liberal multilateral aid institutions seeking to sanction human rights violators.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and its members' voting records in the 1977-2001 period, and finds that targeting and punishment by the commission decreasingly fit the predictions of a realist perspective, in which naming and shaming is an inherently political exercise, and increasingly fit the prediction of a liberal reputation perspective, where governments hold others to their promises, and a constructivist “social conformity” perspective, which governments distribute and respond to social rewards and punishments.

TL;DR: The authors explored the link between democracy and multilateral peace operations in liberal theory, and the expanding UN global presence and its in debtedness to democracies are examined, and provided strong support for the proposition that the UN peace operations of the post-cold war era relied on democratic contributions.

TL;DR: This article examined the theoretical link between military spending and economic growth, explored the domestic and regional causes of this spending, and tested a model incorporating a simultaneous relationship between military expenditure and growth in a pooled time-series cross-sectional analysis on various groupings of Middle Eastern states.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative impact of "donor interests" and "human needs" on US foreign aid allocations in the presumably different Presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (in his first term).