I know there is some constructivist work that approaches this in terms of how states learn/use legalistic language in speeches/international treaties over time. Regardless, I think I can push it further until it hits upon a true gem, but that will be for later. It did produce a neat table.

The ecology cross-application is that resource shocks cause system changes. There may be some novel theoretical arguments, but they are not new. The neuroscience argument posits that information loss occurs over time, and cognitive simplification processes exist in IR, serving as a driver for IR.

Each of these come with a testable hypothesis, an explanation, and the datasets I could use for further testing. I won't repost the full writeups (they are too long), but right now two of them seem too similar to existing research. Epidemiology is that conflict spreads through hidden networks.

I asked it to specifically avoid statistically likely outcomes, but instead use cross-domain theories to create novel insights into IR using available IR data sets. With some massaging, it gave me three cross-applications, one from neuroscience, one from epidemiology, and a third from ecology.

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the country, 2) framing questions about basing by using the Russia invasion of Ukraine actually decreased support for basing, 3) there are NIMBY concerns for new military bases, and 4) exposure to US military personnel moderated the NIMBY opposition to basing.