Dissertation:

"Confounding Powers: Dominance and Discord in International Politics from the Assassins to Al Qaeda."  March 2008.  

Advisers: Daniel Deudney and Steven David

Articles and Book Chapters:

"In Search of Monsters: Realism and Progress in International Relations Theory after September 11," Security Studies 15, no. 3 (July-Sept. 2006): 496-528 

"Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History," European Journal of International Relations 13, no. 2 (2007): 155-85 [with Richard Little, Stuart Kaufman, David Kang, Charles A. Jones, Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, Arthur Eckstein, and Daniel Deudney]  

"The Comedy of Errors? A Reply to Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni" European Journal of International Relations 15, no. 2 (2009): 381-88  [with Richard Little, Stuart Kaufman, David Kang, Charles A. Jones, Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, Arthur Eckstein, and Daniel Deudney] 

"The Forest and the King of Beasts: Hierarchy and Opposition in Ancient India (c.600 - c.232 BCE)," in The Balance of Power in World History, ed. Stuart Kaufman, Richard Little, and William Wohlforth  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007),