Research & Data

My research concerns the ways in which economic and social globalization affects human rights, conflict, and environmental outcomes. 

Replication data for all of my published work is available for download from my page on the IQSS data archive.  

Please click here for a link to my Google Scholar profile, and here for a copy of my CV.

Book:

• Brian Greenhill (2015) Transmitting Rights: International Organizations and the Diffusion of Human Rights Practices.  Oxford University Press. [book] [online appendix] [replication archive]

Book Chapter:

• Brian Greenhill (2021) "Diffusion Processes in International Political Economy" in Pevehouse, Jon and Leonard Seabrooke (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy, Oxford University Press.  [chapter]

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

• Brian Greenhill and Dan Reiter (2022) "Naming and Shaming, Government Messaging, and Backlash Effects: Experimental Evidence from the Convention Against Torture." Journal of Human Rights. [article] [appendix] [replication data]
  • Write-up in Political Violence at a Glance

• Deborah Jordan Brooks, Stephen G. Brooks, Brian Greenhill, and Mark L. Haas (2019) "The Demographic Transition Theory of War: Why Young Societies are Conflict Prone and Old Societies are the Most Peaceful." International Security, 43 (3): 53-95.[article] [replication data]
  • Write-up in Political Violence at a Glance

• Brian Greenhill (2018) "How Can International Organizations Shape Public Opinion? Analysis of a Pair of Survey-Based Experiments.” The Review of International Organizations, 15: 165-188. [article] [replication data]  

• Brian Greenhill, Nives Dolšak, and Aseem Prakash (2018) "Exploring the Adaptation-mitigation Relationship: Does Information on the Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Influence Support for Mitigation?”Environmental Communication, 12 (7): 911-927. [article] [replication data] 
  • Write-up in The Conversation
  • Write-up in Nature Climate Change
  • Interview on the UAlbany News Podcast

• Yonatan Lupu and Brian Greenhill (2017) “The Networked Peace: Intergovernmental Organizations, Preferences and International Conflict.”  Journal of Peace Research, 54 (6): 833-848. [article] [replication data]

• Brian Greenhill and Yonatan Lupu (2017) “Clubs of Clubs: Fragmentation in the Network of Intergovernmental Organizations.” International Studies Quarterly, 61 (1): 181-195.  [article] [replication data]

• Brian Greenhill and Michael Strausz (2014) "Explaining Nonratification of the Genocide Convention: A Nested Analysis.” Foreign Policy Analysis, 10 (4): 371-391. [article] [replication data]

• Xun Cao, Brian Greenhill and Aseem Prakash (2013) "Where is the Tipping Point? Bilateral Trade and the Diffusion of Human Rights, 1982-2004.'' British Journal of Political Science 43 (1): 133-156. [article] [replication data]

• Brian Greenhill, Michael D. Ward and Audrey Sacks (2011) "The Separation Plot: A New Visual Method for Evaluating the Fit of Models with Categorical Outcomes."  American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 1-13. [article] [replication data] [R package]

• Brian Greenhill (2010) "The Company You Keep: International Socialization and the Diffusion of Human Rights Norms." International Studies Quarterly, 54: 127-145.  [article] [replication data]

• Michael D. Ward, Brian Greenhill and Kristin Bakke (2010) "The Perils of Policy by p-value: Predicting Civil Conflicts." Journal of Peace Research, 46 (4): 363-375. [article] [replication data]

• Brian Greenhill, Layna Mosley and Aseem Prakash (2009) "Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986-2002." American Political Science Review, 103 (4): 169-190. [article] [replication data]

• Brian Greenhill (2008) "Recognition and Collective Identity Formation in International Politics." European Journal of International Relations, 14 (2): 343-368.  [article]

Papers in Progress

• "International Organizations and Public Opinion: The Case of Climate Change"

• “States as Role Models: Why Some Countries' Policies Matter more than Others" (with Charmaine Willis)

• "Testing the Sources of IGO Influence in Environmental Debates"