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Miriam Barnum

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2016
Political Conflict and GovernanceInternational Development and AidLaw, Economics, and Judicial SystemsDefense, Military, and Policy StudiesEconomic Sanctions and International Relations

Publications

14

Citations

157

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

9

Publishing since 2016

Research summary
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Miriam Barnum studies international relations topics including military spending, power-sharing arrangements in governments, nuclear weapons proliferation, and international sanctions. A notable part of this work involves building and publishing large historical datasets—such as long-run records of military spending, GDP, population, and political power-sharing—that other researchers can use for quantitative analysis of conflict and international politics.

Military spending and defense economicsPolitical power-sharing and governance institutionsNuclear nonproliferation and sanctionsHistorical economic and demographic data (GDP, population)Quantitative datasets for international relations research

Publication output was minimal before 2020, rose to a peak in 2022, and has continued at a modest, steady pace of one to two outputs per year since.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
1718192020: 1 publication202021: 3 publications212022: 5 publications5222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Harvard Dataverse×5
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution×2
  • Journal of Peace Research×2
  • Comparative Strategy×1
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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