Does the religious composition of a nation and its leaders have an impact on whether a country will initiate a war?  Prof. Davis Brown, a research fellow at Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion and visiting assistant professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, uses new data to show that the answer is yes.  The political science sub-field of international relations (IR) has long ignored religion as a factor explaining the occurrence of recent wars.  Prof. Brown reviews why this might be...

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