The Political Economy of Security
“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)
“The Economics of War and Peace,” Oxford University Press Handbook of International Security, eds. Alexandra Gheciu and William Wohlforth (London: Oxford, 2018)
"Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons: The Virtues of an Uncompetitive Market." Ethics and International Affairs 31. no. 4 (Winter 2017) pp. 401-418.
“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.
For the Gambia coup plan cited above, see: Lammin Sanneh, 2014. “Military Strategy for Operation Gambian Freedom,” source: Stuart A. Reid.
"Who's Arming Asia?" with Ethan Kapstein. Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184
“Arms Away: How Washington Squandered its Monopoly on Weapons Sales,” with Ethan Kapstein. Foreign Affairs 91, no. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 125-132 (ungated html version here).
Critical exchange: “Outgunned,” Foreign Affairs 92, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 177-82.
“United States Hegemony and the New Economics of Defense.” Security Studies 16, no. 4 (October–December 2007), 597–613.
Academic Writing
Policy Writing
“One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy,” War on the Rock, November 21, 2023 (with Ethan Kapstein and Jennifer Kavanagh)
“Commoditized Weapons in Ukraine: Are the Allies Getting Procurement Right?” War on the Rocks, August 24, 2023 (with Ethan Kapstein)
“A Man-of-War is the Best Ambassador: European Naval Deployments as Costly and Useful Diplomatic Signals,” Europe in the Indo-Pacific, Hague Center for Strategic Studies, eds. Paul van Hooft and Alessandra Barrow, May 2023
“The U.S. Should Head an Arms Cartel,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2023
"German Conventional Deterrence or Allied Integrated Deterrence: Pick One," Lawfare, April 17, 2022 (with Lucas F. Hellemeier)
"Zeitenwende light," Internationale Politik (German version), May 19, 2022
"Biden Must Base Arms Sales on U.S. Interests—Not U.S. Jobs,” Foreign Policy, February 26, 2021 (with Ethan B. Kapstein)
“F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road,” Foreign Policy, July 13, 2019 (with Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic)
“Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply,”New York Times, October 12, 2018
“America's Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home,” War on the Rocks, April 6, 2018
“A Good Cartel? Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons,” Ethics & International Affairs, 31, no. 4 (Winter 2017)
“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)
"Sub-Optimal: The Pivot and Australia's New Fleet” Foreign Affairs, March 14, 2016
“Who’s Arming Asia?” Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184
“When Peacekeepers Come Home,” New York Times, February 21, 2016
“Paying for Israel’s Wars,” The Monkey Cage, July 28, 2014
“Outgunned: A Debate Over the Shifting Global Arms Market,” with Ethan Kapstein. Foreign Affairs 92, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 177-182
“Arms Away: How Washington Squandered its Monopoly on Weapons Sales,” with Ethan Kapstein. Foreign Affairs 91, no. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 125-132