1. What is strategic bargaining? Is war the result of strategic bargaining or a continuation of it? Explain your argument.
2. What effect does war have on the tenure of political leaders? Is this effect uniform across democracies and non-democracies? If not, what are the implications for how these two regime types fight wars?
3. How can the democratic peace phenomenon be explained in terms of audience costs and domestic political institutions?
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