I research the political origins of military power. My research on military capabilities concerns two themes. First, what capabilities do states arm themselves with and why? Second, what consequences does the distribution of military capabilities have for states’ conduct in international affairs?
Gartzke, Erik A., Jon R. Lindsay, J Andrés Gannon, and Peter Schram. “Gray Zone: Ambiguity and Escalation.” in Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024), 338–70.
Gannon, J Andrés, Erik A. Gartzke, Jon R. Lindsay, and Peter Schram. “The Shadow of Deterrence: Why capable actors engage in contests short of war.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(2-3), (2024): 230-268.
Gannon, J Andrés. “Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a dataset of the global distribution of military capabilities.” International Studies Quarterly, 67(4), (2023): 1-12.
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Gannon, J Andrés and Kerry Chavez. “A Wiki-based Dataset of Military Operations with Novel Strategic Technologies (MONSTr).” International Interactions, 49(4), (2023): 639-668.
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Gannon, J Andrés. “One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-domain contests and the escalation of international crises.” International Studies Quarterly, 66(4), (2022).
Gannon, J Andrés and Daniel Kent. “Keeping Your Friends Close, but Acquaintances Closer: Why Weakly Allied States Make Committed Coalition Partners.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(5), (2021): 889–918.
Gartzke, Erik A., Shannon Carcelli, J Andrés Gannon, and Jiakun Jack Zhang. “Signaling in Foreign Policy.” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, ed. Cameron Thies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Review of A New Strategy for Complex Warfare: Combined Effects in East Asia, by Thomas A. Drohan. 2016 Parameters. 46(4)
“Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very high recall and precision event extraction from narratives about international crises.” with Rex W. Douglass, Thomas Leo Scherer, Erik Gartzke, Jon Lindsay, Shannon Carcelli, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, et al. ArXiv:2202.07081 [Cs, Stat], February 14, 2022. http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07081. Revise & Resubmit
“ICBeLLM: High quality international events data with open source Large Language Models on consumer hardware.” with Rex W. Douglass, Thomas Leo Scherer, and Erik Gartzke. arXiv:2401.10558 [Stat], January 19, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.10558.
“What is Escalation?: Measuring crisis dynamics in international relations with human and LLM generated event data.” with Rex W. Douglass, Erik Gartzke, Jon R. Lindsay, and Thomas Leo Scherer. arXiv:2402.03340 [physics.soc-ph], January 18, 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03340.
“Allies as Armaments: Explaining the specialization of state military capabilities.” Revise & Resubmit
“Fighting in the War Room: Electoral origins of high-tech warfighting.” with Kerry Chavez. Under Review