Publications

List of PUBLICATIONS

A. SCIENTIFIC BOOKS (Refereed)

1. When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1995), 354 pages.

2. When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press; Second/Paperback Edition, 2002); with a new Preface -- on the contribution of the book’s theory to the recent theoretical debates in the field and to understanding post-Cold War world politics; and a new Afterword -- an analysis of post-Sept. 11 international politics in light of the theory of the book, 368 pages.

3. States, Nations and Great Powers: The Sources of Regional War

and Peace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press—Cambridge Studies in International Relations-- 2007), 500 pages.

4. Explaining Changes in US Grand Strategy: From Truman to Trump (Forthcoming, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020), with Ziv Rubinovitz (as a secondary author).

5. Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Approach

( London: Routledge, 2015; co-edited with Carmela Lutmar; the edited volume is based on my own theoretical framework).

6. International Security and Regional Security: The Causes of War and Peace (London: Routledge, 2017).

7. When Nations Fight: War and Peace in the 21^st Century (Under a contract with Oxford University Press; the book manuscript is almost completed).

B. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

8. "Explaining Great Power Cooperation in Conflict Management." World Politics, Vol. 45, No. 1 (October 1992), pp. 1-46.

9. "A New World Order: From Balancing to Hegemony, Concert or Collective Security?" International Interactions, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1992), pp. 1-33.

10. "Polarity, Nuclear Weapons and Major War." Security Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Summer 1994), pp. 598-649.

11. "Explaining the Emergence of Great Power Concerts." Review of International Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4, (October 1994), pp. 327-348.

12. "International Systems and Regional Security: From Competition to Cooperation, Dominance or Disengagement?" Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 1995), pp. 52-100.

13. "Competing Realist Perspectives on Great Power Crisis Behavior." Special issue of Security Studies on Realism, vol. 5, no. 3 (Spring 1996), pp. 309-357.

14. Benjamin Miller and Korina Kagan, "The Great Powers and Regional Conflicts: Eastern Europe and the Balkans from the Post-Napoleonic Era to the Post-Cold War Era," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1 (March 1997), pp. 51-85; (I was the principal investigator and author of this study, Korina was my student and research assistant).

15. "The Great Powers and Regional Peacemaking: Patterns in the Middle East and Beyond,” Special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies on Regional Security in the Middle East, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 1997), pp. 103-142.

16. "The Logic of U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era," Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 19, no. 3 (December 1998), pp. 72-109.

17. "Explaining Variations in Regional Peace: Three Strategies for Peacemaking," Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2000), pp. 155-191.

18. "The Global Sources of Regional Transitions from War to Peace."

Journal of Peace Research, vol. 38, no. 2 (March 2001), pp. 199-225.

19. "The Concept of Security: Should it be Redefined?" Special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 24, no. 2 (June 2001), pp. 13-42.

20. "Between War and Peace: Systemic Effects on the Transition of the Middle East and the Balkans from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War Era." Security Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (Winter 2001-2), pp. 1-52.

21. Benjamin Miller and Uri Reznick “Conflict in the Balkans, 1830-1913: Combining Levels of Analysis” International Politics, vol. 40, no. 3 (September 2003), pp. 365-407 (I was the principal investigator and author; Uri was my student and research assistant).

22. "The Effects of Changes in the International Environment on the Future of the Middle East," Israel Affairs, vol. 10 numbers 1&2 (Autumn/Winter 2004), pp. 105-120.

23. “When and How Regions Become Peaceful: Potential Theoretical Pathways to Peace,” International Studies Review (2005) 7, pp. 229-267.

24. "Balance of Power or the State-to-Nation Balance: Explaining Middle East War-Propensity." Security Studies vol. 15, no.4 (October-December 2006), pp. 658-705.

25. "States, Nations and Regional War," Ethnopolitics, vol. 7, no. 4, (November 2008), pp. 445-463.

26. "Between the Revisionist and the Frontier State: Regional Variations in State War-Propensity." Special Issue on Regionalism of the Review of International Studies, vol. 35 (2009), pp. 85-119.

27. “Explaining Changes in US Grand Strategy: 9/11, The Rise of Offensive Liberalism and the War in Iraq.” Security Studies, vol. 19 -- 17,630 words (March 2010), pp. 26-65.

28. “Is Peace Possible-- and How: The Four-Fold Response of IR Theory.” International Journal – 7, 545 words (Winter 2009-10), pp. 163-181.

29. “Contrasting Explanations for Peace: Realism vs. Liberalism in Europe and the Middle East.” Contemporary Security Policy , volume 31, no. 1— 16, 592 words (April 2010), pp. 134-164.

30. “Democracy Promotion: Offensive Liberalism Vs. the Rest (of IR Theory).” Millennium, volume 38, issue 3,— 13, 235 words (Special Issue on Liberalism, May 2010), pp. 561-591.

31. Dov Levin and Benjamin Miller, “Why Great Powers Expand In Their Own Neighborhood: Explaining the Territorial Expansion of the U.S. 1819-1848.” International Interactions , volume 37, issue 3 --14, 9440 words (2011), pp. 229-262.

32. “Regional threats and global management of conflicts in regions: The case of the US in the Middle East.” International Politics – 15, 356 words (May 2012) vol. 49, issue 3, pp. 346-382.

33. “Does Democratization Pacify the State? The Cases of Germany and Iraq.” International Studies Quarterly (September 2012), vol. 56, issue 3, pp. 455-469.

34. “State of Imbalance: why countries break up,” Foreign Affairs (July 2014).

35. “Stateness, National Self-determination and War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century,” Ethnopolitics, 2015 , Vol. 14, No. 5, 531–539 (Special issue on Self-Determination).

36. “Beyond the Three ‘isms’: Rethinking IR and the Post-Cold War Order,”

International Politics (April, 2016) 53, pp. 385-414 with Ilai Saltzman.

37. “Israel-Palestine: One State or Two --Why a Two-State Solution is Desirable, Necessary and Feasible,” Ethnopolitics, 15:4, 438-452 (Special Issue on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, August 2016).

38. “Theory of Regional War and Peace." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press, 2017.

39. Arie M. Kacowicz and Benjamin Miller,“The Problem of Peaceful Change Revisited: From the End of the Cold War to the Uncertainties of a Post-Liberal Order,” International Studies Review, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1 June 2018, Pages 301–308.

C. ARTICLES or CHAPTERS in SCIENTIFIC BOOKS (which are not Conference Proceedings)

40. "Perspectives on Superpower Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution in the

Arab-Israel Conflict," in George Breslauer, ed., Soviet Strategy in the Middle East

(Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1990), pp. 247-284.

41. "Theoretical Analysis of U.S.-Soviet Conflict Management in the Middle East: Surprises, Accomplishments, Limitations and Changes from the Cold War to the Post Bi-Polar Era," in S. Spiegel, ed., Conflict Management in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 77-110.

42. "The International, Regional and Domestic Sources of Peace," in A. Kacowics, Y. Bar-Siman-Tov, O. Elgstrom, and M. Jerneck, (eds.), Stable Peace (Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefiled, 2000), pp. 53-73.

43. "Hot War, Cold Peace: International-Regional Synthesis," in Zeev Maoz and Azar Gat, eds., War in a Changing World (An Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001), pp. 93-141.

44. "Integrated Realism and Hegemonic Military Intervention in Unipolarity," in Andrew K. Hanami (ed.), Structural Realism After the Cold War (New York: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 31-60.

45. “Conflict Management in the Middle East: Between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’, ” in Paul F. Diehl and Joseph Lepgold, eds, Regional Conflict Management in the Post-Cold War Era (Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 153-208.

46. “The International System and Regional Balance in the Middle East,” in TV Paul, Jim Wirtz and Michel Fortmann eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21^st Century (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2004), pp. 239-266.

47. “Blowing Hot and Cold: A Theory of Regional War and Peace,” in Constantine P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra Vajpeyi, and Amir Bar-or, eds, Civil-Military Relations, Nation-Building, and National Identity--Comparative Perspectives (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004), pp. 19-50.

48. ”Is Isaiah an ‘Offensive Liberal’? International Relations Theory Responds to Isaiah’s Vision of World Order.” In Raymond Cohen and Raymond Woostock, eds., Isaiah's Vision of Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations: Swords into Plowshares (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 160-190.

49. ”The State-to-Nation Balance: A Key to Explaining Difficulties in Implementing Peace – The Israeli-Palestinian Case.” In Guy Ben-Porat, ed., The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process: A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 39-69.

50. “US Management of Middle East War and Peace: Between Defensive Realism and Offensive Liberalism.” In Efraim Inbar and Eytan Gilboa eds., US-Israel Relations in a New Era (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 9-32.

51. “State, Nations, and the Regional Security Order of South Asia.” In T.V. Paul, ed., South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 74-97.

52. “The State-to-Nation Balance and War” in John Hall and Siniša Malešević, eds., Nationalism and War (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 73-96.

53. “Explaining the Warm Peace in Europe Versus the Shifts between Hot War and Cold Peace in the Middle East,” in Lutmar and Miller, eds., Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Approach ( London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 7-44.

54. “The Sources and Effects of Humanitarian Interventions:

Realism, Liberalism and the State-to-Nation Balance.” In Daniel Terris and Galia Golan, R2P in Ten. (on-line publication, January 2016)

55. “Will Trumpism increase the Danger of War in the International System?: IR Theory and the Illiberal Turn in World Politics.” The H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series: America and the World - 2017 and Beyond. H-Diplo/ISSF Editors: Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse; 26 April 2017

56. “Four Middle East Events That Helped Expand Iran's Influence: America has played a key role in producing the conditions for the rising Iranian influence.,” The National Interest, December 10, 2017

57. “Focusing on regions as the way to understand war and peace.” Ch. 5 in Galia Banathan, Ruth Fine, and Arie M. Kacowicz, Regions in a Globalized World- Bridging the Social Sciences – Humanities Gap. (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 64-78.

Hebrew Publications

58. "The Sources and Effects of Great Power Involvement in Regional Conflicts," in Moshe Lissak, ed., Israel Towards the Year 2000 (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1996, Hebrew), pp. 315-340.

59. "The US-Soviet Dialogue in the Yom-Kippur War," in Y. Bar-Siman-Tov (ed.), The Yom-Kippur War: 25-Year Retrospective (Jerusalem: The Education Ministry and The Davis Institute, the Hebrew University, 1999, Hebrew), pp. 140-152.

60. "International Influences on the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," in Israel's Security Web: Core Issues of Israel’s Security in its Sixth Decade (Maarachot, 2001), pp. 94-109 (Hebrew).

61. “The Recent Changes in International Politics and their Effects on Israel.” In Shlomo Hasson, ISRAEL 2048. (Jerusalem: The Shasha Center for Strategic Studies, The Hebrew University, 2019 in Hebrew).