Notes
1“Reopening the Black Box of War,” held at UC Davis, October 27th and 28th; 2006. The author thanks the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs, UC Davis International Relations program and UC Davis Department of Political Science for their financial and staff support. All of the papers included here greatly benefited from the discussions held during the conference and the authors are grateful to the attendees: Regina Baker, Leo Blanken, Giacomo Chiozza, Christopher Gelpi, Robert Huckfeldt, Robert Jackman, Jacek Kugler, Zeev Maoz, Ross Miller, Miroslav Nincic, Glenn Palmer, Donald Rothchild, Ken Schultz, Randolph Siverson, Branislav Slantchev, and Susan Sample. IGA's Mary Davis was a tremendous help with conference organization and the author also appreciates the many UCD graduate students who assisted (especially Carl Palmer).