About us

About: Welcome to The Quantitative Peace, a blog dedicated to empirical international relations and comparative politics with a specific focus on quantitative and formal studies. The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative politics. Additionally, upcoming events and announcements are posted while popular press articles and news stories are highlighted as they relate to our field. Why? We at the Quantitative Peace believe that social scientists in international relations and comparative politics make an important contribution to understanding the systematic patterns across the globe. The field of world politics currently represents a pivotal interaction between markets, states, and non-states actors and has done so since the formation of states (if not before). However, the knowledge we have is not well dissemated to the public avenues and the blogs that report on emerging trends in the field are few in number. As such, we offer another avenue for which people can view important work, discuss its implications, and potentially engage its authors.