Research Article Archive

“The Democratic Embargo: Regime Type and Proxy War,” with Ryan Grauer, European Journal of International Relations (2022)

“Why does the United States Keep Helping Iran?” Orbis (February 2022)

“Why the United States is Losing—and Russia and Iran are Winning,” The Washington Quarterly (Fall 2021)

“Why Global Order Needs Disorder,” Survival (Spring 2021)

“The Future of Sino-U.S. Proxy War,” Texas National Security Review (Spring 2021)

“Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics,” with Dominic Johnson, International Security (Winter 2018/2019)

“The Two Vietnam Wars: American Approval for the Use of Force,” Political Science Quarterly (Winter 2018/2019)

“A Weary Hercules: The United States and the Fertile Crescent in a Post-Caliphate Era,” Orbis (Summer 2018)

“Accidental Primacy: Balancing and the Path to Power,” International Relations (June 2018)

“The Arsenal of Insurrection: Explaining Rising Support for Rebels,” with Ryan Grauer, Security Studies (May 2018)

“Avoiding Nation-Building: From Nixon to Trump,” Parameters (Spring 2018)  

“The Ethics of an Unwinnable War,” in Andrew Hom, ed., Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (New York, Oxford University Press, 2017)

“The Backlash Against Nation-Building,” Prism (September 2015)

“Mastering the Endgame of War,” Survival (October/November 2014)

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Dominic Tierney, How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War (February 2012)

“Fighting While Negotiating in Afghanistan,” Orbis (Winter 2012)

“Psychological Aspects of War,” with Iain Hardie and Dominic Johnson, in Chris Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers, eds., The Handbook on the Political Economy of War (Elgar, 2011)

“Multilateralism: America’s Insurance Policy Against Loss,” European Journal of International Relations, (December 2011)

“Crossing the Rubicon: The Perils of Committing to a Decision,” with Dominic Johnson, Policy Brief, Harvard Kennedy School (September 2011)

“The Rubicon Theory of War: How the Path to Conflict Becomes the Point of No Return,” with Dominic Johnson, International Security (Summer 2011)

“Does Chain-Ganging Cause the Outbreak of War?” International Studies Quarterly (June 2011)

“Prisoner Dilemmas: The American Obsession with POWs and Hostages,” Orbis (Winter 2009/2010)

“America’s Quagmire Mentality,” Survival (Winter 2007/2008)

“‘Pearl Harbor in Reverse’: Moral Analogies in the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Journal of Cold War Studies, (Summer 2007)

“In the Eye of the Beholder: Victory and Defeat in U.S. Military Operations,” with Dominic Johnson, in Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds., Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War (Routledge, 2007)

“Irrelevant or Malevolent? UN Arms Embargoes and Civil Wars,” Review of International Studies (October 2005)

“Essence of Victory: Winning and Losing International Crises,” with Dominic Johnson, Security Studies, (October 2004)

“Franklin D. Roosevelt and Covert Aid to the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,” Journal of Contemporary History (July 2004)