Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. You and Whose Army? How Civilian Leaders Leverage the Military’s Prestige to Shape Public Opinion
   Michael R. Kenwick and Sarah Maxey
   The Journal of Politics. (Forthcoming)
   [Replication files]
   
   
2. Border Orientation in a Globalizing World
   Beth A. Simmons and Michael R. Kenwick.
   American Journal of Political Science. (Forthcoming)
   [Replication files]
   
   
3. The MID5 Dataset, 2011-2014: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description
   Glenn Palmer, Roseanne W. McManus, Vito D’Orazio, Michael R. Kenwick, Mikaela Karstens, Chase Bloch, Nick Dietrich, Kayla Kahn, Kellan Ritter, Michael J. Soules.
   Conflict Management and Peace Science. 39(4): 470-482 (2022)
   [Data set]
   
   
4. Pandemic Response as Border Politics
   Michael R. Kenwick and Beth A. Simmons
   International Organization 74(Suppl.): 1-17 (2020).
   [Replication Files]
   
   
5. Estimating One-sided-killings from a Robust Measurement Model of Human Rights
   Chris Fariss, Michael R. Kenwick, and Kevin Reuning
   Journal of Peace Research 57(6):801-814.
   [Replication Files] [Appendix] [Human Rights Scores v.4]
   
   
6. Self-Reinforcing Civilian Control: A Measurement-Based Analysis of Civil-Military Relations
   Michael R. Kenwick
   International Studies Quarterly 64(1): 71-84 (2019)
   [Appendix] [ Replication Files] [Civilian Control Scores v.1]
   
   
7. Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute Data: A Response to Gibler, Miller, and Little
   Glenn Palmer Vito D’Orazio, & Michael R. Kenwick, and Roseanne McManus
   International Studies Quarterly 64(2) 469–475 (2019)
   [Appendix] [Replication Files]
   
   
8. Exploring the Dynamics of Latent Variable Models
   Kevin Reuning, Michael R. Kenwick, and Christopher J. Fariss
   Political Analysis 27(4):503-517 (2019)
   [Appendix] [Replication Files]
   
   
9. Defense Pacts and Deterrence: Caveat Emptor
   Michael R. Kenwick and John A. Vasquez
   The Journal of Politics 79(1):329-334 (2017)
   [Appendix] [Replication Files]
   
   
10. Who's Careful: Regime Type and Target Selection
    Daehee Bak, Michael R. Kenwick, and Glenn Palmer
    The European Journal of International Relations 22(4): 872-896 (2016)
    [Appendix] [Replication Files]
    
    
11. Crowdsourcing the Measurement of Interstate Conflict
    Vito D’Orazio, Michael R. Kenwick, Matthew Lane, Glenn Palmer, and David Reitter
    PLOS ONE 11(6): e0156527 (2016)
    
    
12. Do Alliances Really Deter?
    Michael R. Kenwick, John A. Vasquez, and Matthew Powers
    The Journal of Politics 77(4): 943-954 (2015)
    [Appendix] [Replication Files]
    - Coverage in The Chicago Policy Review
    
    
13. The MID4 Data Set, 2002-2010: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description
    Glenn Palmer, Vito D’Orazio, Michael R. Kenwick, and Matthew Lane
    Conflict Management and Peace Science 32(2): 222-242 (2015)
    [Data Webpage]

Editor Reviewed Publications

1. Deterrence Theory and Alliance Politics
   Michael R. Kenwick and Roseanne McManus.
   What Do We Know About War? Third Edition, Edited by Sara Mitchell and John A. Vasquez.
   Rowman & Littlefield. (2021).
   
   
2. The Militarized Interstate Dispute Dataset: Putting Things in Perspective
   Glenn Palmer, Vito D’Orazio, Michael R. Kenwick, and Roseanne McManus
   International Studies Quarterly (Forthcoming)
   
   
3. Measurement Models
   Christopher Fariss, Michael R. Kenwick, and Kevin Reuning
   SAGE Handbook of Research Methods is Political Science & International Relations (2020)
   
   

Press and Media

1. Border Barriers are on the Rise
   Beth A. Simmons and Michael R. Kenwick,
   CNN (Opinion) (February 1, 2019)
   
   
2. Trump's Cabinet and Bringing Civil-Military Relations Back In
   Lionel Beehner, Peter White, and Michael R. Kenwick
   Political Violence At a Glance (December 16, 2016)
   
   
3. Why Erdogan Struggles to Control the Armed Forces, and Why the Turkish Coup Failed
   Michael R. Kenwick
   The Monkey Cage (July 18, 2016)

External Grants

1. “States and Security: Border Orientation in the Modern World.”
   Co-Principal Investigator with Beth A. Simmons
   National Science Foundation, SES: 1917573.
   Project Award: $476,137

Select Working Papers

1. International Influences on the Survival of Territorial Non-State Actors
   Michael R. Kenwick and Douglas Lemke
   (Revise and Resubmit)
   
   
2. Infrastructure and Authority at the State’s Edge: The Border Crossings of the World Dataset
   Michael R. Kenwick, Rick McAlexander, and Beth Simmons
   (Revise and Resubmit)
   
   
3. Rethinking the Link Between Civil-Military Relations and Interstate Conflict
   Michael R. Kenwick
   
   
4. Explaining Public Support for Border Militarization
   Michael R. Kenwick
   
   
5. The Discursive Civil-Military Divide
   Michael R. Kenwick, Burcu Kolcak, and Sumin Lee