Democracies and Defense

Leaders but not Authorities: Gender, Veterans, and Messages About National Security,” American Political Science Review, with Yanna Krupnikov, (2024), pp. 1-16. (pdf)

AUKUS: When Naval Procurement Sets Grand Strategy,” International Journal, 78, no. 3 (September 2003), 327-334. (pdf)

Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war,” Contemporary Security Policy, forthcoming (pdf)

Domestic Sources of Grand Strategy,” Oxford University Press Handbook on Grand Strategy, eds. Thierry Balzacq and Ronald Krebs (London: Oxford, 2021)

When an Immovable Object Meets an Irresistible Force: Military Popularity and Affective Partisanship,” Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War, eds. Risa Brooks, Lionel Beehner, and Dan Maurer (London: Oxford, 2021)

Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great Power Competition,” with Peter J. Dombrowski, Security Studies, 29, no. 4 (August 2020)

When human capital threatens the Capitol: Foreign aid in the form of military training and coups,” with Jesse Dillon Savage, Journal of Peace Research, 54, no. 4 (2017) pp. 542–557.

Aiming at Doves: Experimental Evidence of Military Images' Political Effects,” with Yanna Krupnikov. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 61, no. 7  (2017) pp. 1482-1509

Neoconservatism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Narcissism of Small Differences,” After Liberalism: The Future of Liberalism in International Relations, eds. Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian, and Ramon Pardo (London: Palgrave, 2013).

"Explaining U.S. Military Strategy in Vietnam: Thinking Clearly about Causation." International Security 35, no. 3 (Winter 2010/11), pp. 124-143.  

"Power and Democratic Weakness: Neoconservatism and Neoclassical Realism."  Millennium 38, no. 3 (May 2010), pp. 593-614. 

"The Myth of Military Myopia: Democracy, Small Wars, and Vietnam."  International Security 34, no. 3 (Winter 2009/10), 119-157.  

Academic Writing

Policy Writing

"German Conventional Deterrence or Allied Integrated Deterrence: Pick One," Lawfare, April 17, 2022 (with Lucas F. Hellemeier)

"A Liberal Case for Seapower?War on the Rocks, February 26, 2021 (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) 

 “Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection between U.S. Training and Military Coups,” War on the Rocks, August 9, 2017 (with Jesse Dillon Savage)

When Peacekeepers Come Home,” New York Times, February 21, 2016

Paying for Israel’s Wars,” The Monkey Cage, July 28, 2014