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Todd S. Sechser
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 28
Citations - 1034
Todd S. Sechser is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear weapon & Deterrence theory. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications receiving 911 citations. Previous affiliations of Todd S. Sechser include Stanford University.
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Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of reputation-building is proposed, which casts reputation as a strategic problem, showing that challengers issuing compellent threats have incentives to anticipate the reputation costs that target states incur when appeasing aggressors.
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The Illusion of Democratic Credibility
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the quantitative evidence for the democratic credibility hypothesis and found that it is surprisingly weak and concluded that threats from democ- racies are no more successful than threats from other states.
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Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence
Matthew Fuhrmann,Todd S. Sechser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of hand-tying and sink-cost signals in international politics and found that formal alliances with nuclear states appear to carry significant deterrence benefits, while stationing nuclear weapons on a protege's territory does not bolster these effects.
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Are Soldiers Less War-Prone than Statesmen?
TL;DR: The authors showed that states with strong civilian control are on average less prone to initiate military action than states without it, and suggested that civilian control should play a central role in future models of conflict initiation.
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Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence
Matthew Fuhrmann,Todd S. Sechser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of hand-tying and sink-cost signaling on the extended deterrent effect of nuclear weapons and found that formal alliances with nuclear states appear to carry significant deterrence benefits.