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Overview

Karen Rasler is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research focus spans multiple fields and subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, development, general economics, econometrics and finance, as well as artificial intelligence.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • International Development and Aid
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Economic Development and Digital Transformation
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Karen Rasler has authored a total of 41 publications in social sciences, alongside contributions in economics, econometrics and finance, and computer science.

Their published book works include:

  • War and State Making: The Shaping of the Global Powers (2021), published by Ministerio de Defensa
  • Regions, Power, and Conflict (2022), published by Springer Nature

Among their published research articles, the following paper is noted:

  • The Effects of Selective and Indiscriminate Repression on the 2013 Gezi Park Nonviolent Resistance Campaign (2020), published in Sociological Perspectives

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karen Rasler include:

  • William R. Thompson
  • Thomas J. Volgy
  • Paul Bezerra
  • Jacob Cramer
  • Kelly Marie Gordell

Their frequent publication venue is Sociological Perspectives, where they have contributed at least one paper.

Best Publications

  • Concessions, repression, and political protest in the Iranian revolution

    Karen Rasler

  • Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Position, Space and Conflict Escalation

    Michael P. Colaresi;Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • War and State Making: The Shaping of the Global Powers

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • War Making and State Making: Governmental Expenditures, Tax Revenues, and Global Wars

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Contested Territory, Strategic Rivalries, and Conflict Escalation

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Global Wars, Public Debts, and the Long Cycle

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Strategic Rivalries in World Politics

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  • How Rivalries End

    Karen A. Rasler;William R. Thompson;Sumit Ganguly

  • The Democratic Peace and a Sequential, Reciprocal, Causal Arrow Hypothesis:

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • War and the Economic Growth of Major Powers

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Explaining Rivalry Escalation to War: Space, Position, and Contiguity in the Major Power Subsystem

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Defense Burdens, Capital Formation, and Economic Growth: The Systemic Leader Case

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Looking for Waves of Terrorism 1

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Rivalries and the Democratic Peace in the Major Power Subsystem

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • War, Accommodation, and Violence in the United States, 1890–1970

    Karen Rasler

  • Puzzles of the Democratic Peace

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Predatory Initiators and Changing Landscapes for Warfare

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Borders, Rivalry, Democracy, and Conflict in the European Region, 1816-1994

    Karen Rasler;William R. Thompson

  • Shocks, Expectancy Revision, and the De-escalation of Protracted Conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian Case*

    Karen Rasler

  • Internationalized Civil War: A Dynamic Analysis of the Syrian Intervention in Lebanon

    Karen Rasler

  • War and Systemic Capability Reconcentration

    William R. Thompson;Karen A. Rasler

  • War, the Military Revolution(s) Controversy, and Army Expansion A Test of Two Explanations of Historical Influences on European State Making

    William R. Thompson;Karen Rasler

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Thompson
William R. Thompson Indiana University

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